2006 New York Code - Contracts With Academies.

 
    § 1714. Contracts  with academies.   The board of education of a union
  free  school  district,  with  the  approval  of  the  commissioner   of
  education,  may adopt an academy as the academic department thereof, and
  contract for the  instruction  therein  of  pupils  of  academic  grade,
  residing  in  the district.   The academy thereupon becomes the academic
  department of such union free  school  district,  and  the  district  is
  entitled  to  the  same  rights  and  privileges, is subject to the same
  duties, and the apportionment and distribution  of  state  school  money
  shall  be  made to it, as if an academic department had been established
  in such district.