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Under NYS Law, The NYS Commissioner of Education is permitted to adjudicate certain appeals, such as, but not limited to, actions taken by boards of education or school administrators. This happens through an appeals process, and the decisions rendered in these appeals by the Commissioner are then recorded in the official "reporter" of the NYS Commissioner of Education. (Why more ""s? Because when researchers see the word "reporter" they often think case law, but this isn't a case!)
The Reporter is officially called
Decisions of the Commissioner of Education of the State of New York and other recent miscellaneous court decisions.
It might also be referred to as
CLICK HERE TO SEE WHERE THE DECISIONS ARE IN THE LIBRARY CATALOG
The Matter/decision/appeal report for Dalrymple may be found at 5 Educ Dept Rpts 113.
The Decisions of the Commissioner of Education are available in the Reference collection of the library --- Main Floor, just steps away from the main entrance. The call number is LB2529 .N45 N37
How to find them
Matters held before the Commissioner of Education may be referred to as "matters" or "appeals", or sometimes just called "decisions". Sometimes a matter/appeal/decision may be referred to by its chronological decision number or reporter citation. So DALRYMPLE may be referred to as
As of this writing, The Decisions of the Commissioner of Education [Catalog Entry link] are only online from 1991 - present. They are available at the NYSED Office of Counsel Website [Link] and in Lexis Nexis Academic [database link].
The Dalrymple Matter was decided in 1966, therefore it is not online at the Office of Counsel site, nor in any database our library has access to.
We have this decision in the print version of the reporter
Glad you asked! To find more Commissioner's Decisions that use the phrase "dress code" use the search tool at the NYSED OFFICE OF COUNSEL Decisions page [Link]. This will find decisions from 1991 - present, but to find ones between 1966 and 1991, you will need to use the indexes in the back of each print volume!
Because "dress code" can also result in judicial (COURT) matters, it would be useful to search Lexis Nexis Academic for court cases, too.
Great Question! While Copyright Law will not permit us to simply post the "case" here, the "case" is an interesting one for several reasons. It also provides us with several teachable moments to discuss NYS Education law and our library's resources.
First, why all the quotation marks ("" "" "")? Well, because the Dalyrymple "case" isn't a case at all -- the term "case" is usually reserved for matters adjudicated by the judicial branch of government, by a judge. When researchers see the word "case" they often go to case law reporters, or their electronic equivalent in Lexis Nexis or a similar online resource. But...
Why else might we find this decision interesting? It suggests some First Amendment issues, and so it may be worthwhile to look for Case Law on that subject. It also renders a check on what school boards can do viz. students' rights, so it suggests that the decision will (and it has) inform current school and school board policies; as well as later Regulations of the Commissioner and Commissioner's decisions.