and control of the educational affairs of the district.” Gulino, 460 F.3d at 365 (quoting N.Y. Educ. Law § 1604.30 (underlining added)). “ ‘Although the New York Department of Education has substantial responsibility for education in the state, the local school districts maintain significant control over the administration of local school district affairs.’ ” Gulino, 460 F.3d at 366 (quoting Kramer v. Union Free Sch. Dist. No. 15, 395 U.S. 621, 623, 89 S.Ct. 1886, 23 L.Ed.2d 583 (1969)). This plenary supervisory oversight by the New York State Education Department includes assuring compliance by the state with the state’s obligations as a precondition to receiving funds under the Act. See Polera v. Bd. of Educ. of Newburgh Enlarged City Sch. Dist., 288 F.3d 478, 481 (2d Cir.2002) (<HOLDING>) (internal citations omitted). Thus, the fact
holding legislature was required to provide a system of free education to the public including programs for the handicapped recognizing mutual duty of each parent to provide children with support and education suitable to the childrens circumstances holding that an individualized educational program that merely provided for educational services as appropriate did not result in the denial of a free appropriate public education recognizing that under the act states are granted federal funds to provide disabled children with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment holding that sc const art xi  3 which requires the general assembly to provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free public education guarantees only a minimally adequate education and does not call for this court to dictate what programs are to be used in this states public schools