Bill Text: NY A02162 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the New York city department of education to create more gifted and talented programs and classes in all school districts with elementary kindergarten through fifth grade and intermediate sixth through eighth grade with four or more classes per grade for students who shall gain entry through academic merit rather than through an admissions examination; authorizes automatic admission to a gifted and talented program in intermediate sixth through eighth grade for those students in elementary grades kindergarten through fifth grade who are currently enrolled in such program; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A02162 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02162-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2162

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. COLTON, AUBRY, DINOWITZ, REYES, THIELE, SAYEGH,
          COOK, DeSTEFANO,  BRAUNSTEIN,  HEVESI,  HYNDMAN,  CRUZ,  D. ROSENTHAL,
          RIVERA,  DARLING, WEPRIN, WILLIAMS, McDONOUGH, DAVILA -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to  requiring  the  New York city department of education to
          create more gifted and talented programs and classes

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
     2  by adding a new section 21-974.1 to read as follows:
     3    § 21-974.1 Gifted and talented programs and classes.   Notwithstanding
     4  any other provision of law, rule, regulation or local law to the contra-
     5  ry, the department shall direct:
     6    a.  All  schools with elementary kindergarten through fifth grade with
     7  four or more classes per grade shall have at least one class  per  grade
     8  for top performing students who gain entry through academic merit rather
     9  than  through  an  admissions examination. All schools with intermediate
    10  sixth through eighth grade with four or more  classes  per  grade  shall
    11  have  at  least one class per grade for top performing students who gain
    12  entry through academic merit rather than through an admissions  examina-
    13  tion.
    14    b.  All  school  districts shall have at least one district gifted and
    15  talented program for elementary kindergarten through  fifth  grade  with
    16  admissions based on an objective examination. All school districts shall
    17  have  at least one district gifted and talented program for intermediate
    18  sixth through eighth grade with admissions based on an examination  that
    19  uses  a  competitive  and  objective  measure of scholastic achievement;
    20  provided, however, that any student in a gifted and talented program for
    21  elementary kindergarten through fifth grade pursuant to this subdivision

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  shall receive automatic admission to a gifted and talented  program  for
     2  intermediate sixth through eighth grade.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     5  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     6  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
     7  completed on or before such effective date.