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America's School Trust Library
Architectural plan view of the Counting House — a banking-hall interior with a teller counter, ledger desks behind it, and a small vault recess at the rear. Hand-drafted in oxidized navy ink on parchment.

New York financial profile

The Founding Floor (cohort 1) · No federal trust (state-derived)

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State-derived: no federal admission grant

New York entered the Union without a federal school-land grant — either because it predated the federal land-grant template (the Original 13) or because it was admitted under a different model (annexation by treaty, cession from a parent state, statehood from a sovereign republic). Counting House measures the federal-trust architecture; for New York that architecture was never built. The state's own school-finance instruments (general appropriations, local property tax, in some cases a state-derived endowment) live elsewhere in the library.

Permanent fund corpus

Not applicable

Most recent distribution

Not applicable

Federal grant acreage

Not applicable

Transparency status

No federal trust to disclose

State-derived: never received a federal admission grant, so there is no federal-trust corpus to publish. (The state may still have its own state-derived fund or other school-finance instruments.)

Governance form

Classification: No federal trust (state-derived)

Board of Regents (17 members, elected by joint ballot of the Legislature, staggered five-year terms; constitutional body under Article XI § 2). The Common School Fund corpus is held by the Comptroller; the Regents do not function as fund trustees in the public-land-state sense.