N.Y. County Law § 829

§ 829. Teachers' training in certain counties. In order to provide an\nadequate number of teachers to be available for employment in the public\nschools in the county, the board of supervisors of any county in which\nis located a college or university having a department for fitting\npupils to be teachers and commonly known as a pedagogical department,\nmay, from time to time, appropriate moneys for salaries of the teaching\nstaff in such department, or to be applied toward the payment of such\nsalaries, and may raise such moneys by tax on the taxable property\nwithin the county.\n