The state unveiled some new education materials to teach students about sepsis.
Officials announced a new curriculum, which will be available for grades K through 12.
Sepsis is a potentially fatal blood infection that can lead to organ failure.
Officials worked with the Staunton family to develop the curriculum.
The family lost their 12-year-old son Rory to the infection in 2012 after he cut his knee playing basketball. His gym teacher didn't wash the wound, and Rory died days later after it became infected.
"We, as parents, we assumed that this school was a safe place for our children to go, and it wasn't. And because of that, our son is dead," said Ciaran Staunton, Rory's father.
"Sepsis is the biggest killer of children in the world, and that sepsis also kills up to half a million Americans every year, yet most people have never heard the word," said Orlaith Staunton, Rory's mother.
The Assembly and state Senate passed legislation to make the education materials available statewide.
Governor Andrew Cuomo has not yet signed it into action.