The New York State report card for each public school, charter school, and school district shall be prepared by the Education Department.
To satisfy the local report card requirements, each report card for a local educational agency shall be placed on the website of the local educational agency.Each public school principal, within 30 calendar days of the commissioner's release of such reports, copies of the New York State report card for the school and the district report card to the parent of each student. A district may add any other appropriate information, including but not limited to measures of school climate and safety; access to specific learning opportunities, such as physical education; and teacher turnover and absences.
Such additional information also must be distributed to the parent of each student and must be made widely available through public means, such as posting on the Internet, distribution through the media, and distribution through public agencies. To the extent practicable, the district or charter school shall provide the report and additional information in a language that the parents can understand (e.g, in the most frequently used languages in the district).