Education in New York (state)

New York is one of seven states that mandate the teaching of Holocaust and genocide studies at some point in elementary or secondary school curricula.

One of the major public policy issues in recent decades has been the attempt by poorer communities to get more state funding to compensate for what they cannot generate in property taxes.

Carol O'Connor notes that between 1896 and 1935, the state legislature made eight amendments to the compulsory education law.

The goal was to keep children in school for a longer period of time, which would in turn keep them off the labor market.

More than 274,000 degree-credit, adult, continuing and professional education students are enrolled at campuses located in all five New York City boroughs.

New York has hundreds of private colleges and universities, including many religious and special-purpose institutions.

Academic Complex at Binghamton University
Butler Library at Columbia University in the City of New York, which has the largest endowment of any higher education institution in New York.
Old Stone Row on the Arts Quadrangle, Cornell University .
Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester , which in the early 1970s had the third largest endowment in the country, after Harvard University and the University of Texas System , [ 6 ] and is the 6th largest employer in New York State today. [ 7 ]
The Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester , which consistently ranks as the best music school in the nation. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ]