The purpose of these rules is to ensure equitable treatment of persons employed in positions the principal duty of which is the teaching or instruction of patients or inmates, or the direct supervision of such teaching or instruction, and to provide uniformity in matters of attendance and leave for such persons, insofar as practicable and consistent with the efficient conduct of the division's business, who are employed on the basis of an annual school calendar year adopted by the division which shall be consistent with the school calendar year of public school teachers in New York State.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 9 §§ 166-4.0