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New York State Constitution and the Board of Regents

ARTICLE V – OFFICERS AND CIVIL DEPARTMENTS

§ 4. [Department heads]

... The head of the department of education shall be The Regents of the University of the State of New York, who shall appoint and at pleasure remove a commissioner of education to be the chief administrative officer of the department ... 

ARTICLE XI - EDUCATION 

§ 1. [Common schools]

The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.

§ 2. [Regents of the University]

The corporation created in the year one thousand seven hundred eighty-four, under the name of The Regents of the University of the State of New York, is hereby continued under the name of The University of the State of New York.  It shall be governed and its corporate powers, which may be increased, modified or diminished by the legislature, shall be exercised by not less


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Last Updated: February 19, 2009