N.Y. Education Law § 4604: Continuing education adult schools

§ 4604. Continuing education adult schools. 1. The board of education

of each school district may establish and maintain day and evening

schools for adults, the controlling purpose of which shall be to provide

a general program of continuing education in all its aspects for the

improvement of the civic, vocational and general intelligence of adults

and to enable them to make a wise use of their leisure time. Such

continuing education adult schools may be of the following kinds:

a. Citizenship schools providing instruction in English, civics, the

common branches and other subjects which may increase the civic and

general intelligence of foreign born, illiterate and non-English

speaking persons.

b. General continuing education adult schools providing instruction in

approved high school subjects, general cultural subjects, approved

occupational subjects, music, dramatic arts, fine, applied and practical

arts subjects.

c. Recreation and leisure time schools providing instruction in

physical education, health education, sports, games, arts and crafts and

leisure time activities generally.

2. The common council, council or board of estimate and apportionment

of a city, the board of supervisors or other governing elective body of

a county, the board of trustees of an incorporated village and the town

board of a town may make appropriations to aid and promote the extension

of education among illiterate and non-English speaking persons within

the jurisdiction of such respective bodies.

3. The commissioner is authorized and directed to promulgate rules and

regulations to provide for the notification of participants in adult

continuing education schools of the emergency procedures to be followed

in the event of fire.