Richard K. v. Petrone

OPINION OF THE COURT

Fisher, J.

The issue presented on this appeal concerns the statutory obligation of school boards to provide health services to resident students who attend private or parochial schools in their districts.

In the fall of 2004 the petitioners’ seven-year-old daughter, Isabella, was diagnosed with insulin-dependent Type I diabetes. At the time, she was a second-grade student at the St. Ann School (hereinafter St. Ann), a parochial school in Yonkers. Her condition required that her blood sugar level be tested each day before lunch, and that, depending on the result, she receive…