School Districts

We are an association library that receives about 75% of our operating budget from a tax levy approved by school district voters via a [New York State Education Law Section] 259 ball

Our library gets taxpayer funding from its own line on a school district tax bill.

We are a small, urban, very diverse school district with a large English Language Learner (ELL) population and a high poverty rate.

A school district public library is considering installing closed-circuit cameras and thinking of enabling sound recordings, too.

The library is chartered as a school district public library and thus exempt from NYS sales tax.

NOTE: On 5/13/22, Erie 1 BOCES hosted a program[1] regarding school library materials management.  That same week, the Erie Coun

Our local public library has started a collection of donated yearbooks from the high school. They requested to receive or purchase new yearbooks as they were published.

We have a school district public library board considering requiring background checks for new employees.

What law, regulation, or regulatory authority governs the budget transfer policy at a school district public library?  Is there any case law or authority on that?

For public libraries seeking school ballot funding, there's some gray area around whether a petition with signatures of eligible school district voters needs to be submitted to the s