Ordered that the corrected judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
Where, as here, the requirement to arbitrate arises through a statutory mandate (see Education Law § 3020-a [5]), the arbitrators' determination is subject to "closer judicial scrutiny" under CPLR 7511 (b) than it would receive had the arbitration been conducted voluntarily (see Matter of Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. v New York State Ins. Fund,
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