N.Y. Education Law § 3230: School district meetings and activities

§ 3230. School district meetings and activities. 1. The board of

education or trustees of each school district shall ensure that at any

meeting or activity which is conducted by the board of education,

trustees, school district or a district school which is specific to a

child's educational program and which parents or persons in parental

relationship who are deaf or hard of hearing, as defined by the

commissioner, attend, the board of education or trustees shall provide

interpreter services at no charge to such persons, provided a written

request therefor is made to the school district within a reasonable time

prior to the scheduled meeting or activity. In the event interpreter

services are requested, the school district shall appoint an interpreter

of the deaf to interpret the proceedings of the meeting or activity. In

the event that an interpreter is unavailable, other reasonable

accommodations shall be made which are satisfactory to the parents or

guardians.

2. Each board of education or trustees shall adopt a policy which

shall establish the time limitation for requesting interpreter services,

examples of what constitutes reasonable accommodations and how the

regulations of the commissioner promulgated pursuant to this chapter

shall be implemented.

3. For the purposes of this section "meeting" or "activity" shall

include those school-initiated meetings or activities which parents or

persons in parental relationship who are deaf or hard of hearing attend

which are specific to the academic and/or disciplinary aspects of their

child's educational program including parent-teacher conferences and

other such meetings and activities as defined by the commissioner.