N.Y. Education Law § 4209: Blind and deaf children and blind and cerebral palsied children

§ 4209. Blind and deaf children and blind and cerebral palsied

children. 1. All children who are both blind and deaf or both blind and

cerebral palsied shall be admitted as state pupils into one of the

institutions described in this article for the instruction of the deaf

or blind and under the same conditions of eligibility as are provided

for the admission of deaf or blind state pupils.

2. In the discretion of the commissioner of education a sum not to

exceed a sum equal to double the average annual per capita cost for

pupils attending all of the schools which are subject to the provisions

of section forty-two hundred one of this article shall be available in

the manner provided in section forty-two hundred ten of this article to

aid a blind and deaf pupil in receiving instruction in an institution

for the instruction of the deaf or blind located outside the state in

order to continue the education of such blind and deaf pupil for the

term of instruction provided in section forty-two hundred seven of this

article.