N.Y. Education Law § 3201: Discrimination on account of race, creed, color or national origin prohibited

§ 3201. Discrimination on account of race, creed, color or national

origin prohibited. 1. No person shall be refused admission into or be

excluded from any public school in the state of New York on account of

race, creed, color or national origin.

2. Except with the express approval of a board of education having

jurisdiction, a majority of the members of such board having been

elected, no student shall be assigned or compelled to attend any school

on account of race, creed, color or national origin, or for the purpose

of achieving equality in attendance or increased attendance or reduced

attendance, at any school, of persons of one or more particular races,

creeds, colors, or national origins; and no school district, school zone

or attendance unit, by whatever name known, shall be established,

reorganized or maintained for any such purpose, provided that nothing

contained in this section shall prevent the assignment of a pupil in the

manner requested or authorized by his parents or guardian, and further

provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect, in any

way, the right of a religious or denominational educational institution

to select its pupils exclusively or primarily from members of such

religion or denomination or from giving preference to such selection to

such members or to make such selection to its pupils as is calculated to

promote the religious principle for which it is established.