§ 10. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that students' ability\nto learn and to meet high academic standards, and a school's ability to\neducate its students, are compromised by incidents of discrimination or\nharassment including bullying, taunting or intimidation. It is hereby\ndeclared to be the policy of the state to afford all students in public\nschools an environment free of discrimination and harassment. The\npurpose of this article is to foster civility in public schools and to\nprevent and prohibit conduct which is inconsistent with a school's\neducational mission.\n
N.Y. Educ. Law § 10
Legislative intent
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 84 F. Supp. 3d 221 - Eskenazi-McGibney v. Connetquot Central School District (2015)
Most recently applied in Motta Ex Rel. Motta v. Eldred Central School District (July 2016)
2014-09-22
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: NYS Open Legislation (New York State Senate). Reproduced from public-domain New York statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.