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Section 3202 - Title IV, Article 65, Part I

S 3202. Public schools free to resident pupils; tuition from nonresident pupils.

1. A person over five and under twenty-one years of age who has not received a high school diploma is entitled to attend the public schools maintained in the district in which such person resides without the payment of tuition. …. 1-a. No pupil over the compulsory attendance age in his or her school district shall be dropped from enrollment unless he or she has been absent twenty consecutive school days and the following procedure is complied with: The principal or superintendent shall schedule and notify, in writing and at the last known address, both the student and the person in parental relation to the student of an informal conference. At the conference the principal or superintendent shall determine both the reasons for the pupil's absence and whether reasonable changes in the pupil's educational program would encourage and facilitate his or her re-entry or continuance of study. The pupil and the person in parental relation shall be informed orally and in writing of the pupil's right to re-enroll at any time in the public school maintained in the district where he or she resides, if otherwise qualified under this section. If the pupil and the person in parental relationship fail, after reasonable notice, to attend the informal conference, the pupil may be dropped from enrollment provided that he or she and the person in parental relation are notified in writing of the right to re-enter at any time, if other- wise qualified under this section.

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7. Youth incarcerated in county correctional facilities or youth shelters. a. A person under twenty-one years of age who has not received a high school diploma and who is incarcerated in a correctional facility maintained by a county or by the city of New York or in a youth shelter is eligible for educational services pursuant to this subdivision and in accordance with the regulations of the commissioner. Such services shall be provided by the school district in which the facility or youth shelter is located, within the limits of the funds allocated by the commissioner for such purposes pursuant to section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter and pursuant to a plan approved by the commissioner. ….

8. Homeless children. A homeless child, as defined in subdivision one of section thirty-two hundred nine of this article, over the age of five and under twenty-one years of age, who has not received a high school diploma, shall be entitled to attend a public school without the payment of tuition, in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-two hundred nine of this article.