Article XI -- Education
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 (Formerly Section 1 of Art. 9. Renumbered by Constitutional
Convention of 1938 and approved by vote of the people November 8, 1938).
Section 2. 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 than nine regents (Formerly Section 2 Art. 9.
Renumbered and amended by Constitutional Convention of 1938 and approved by vote of people November
8, 1938).