Bill Text: NY A02406 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to requirements associated with the New York city community school district system; permits city-wide council presidents to vote for a member of the city board; allows parents whose children who at any time in the past enrolled in a bilingual or English as a second language program to serve on the city-wide council on English language learners.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A02406 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02406-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2406--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on  Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to requirements associ-
          ated with the New York city community school district system  and  the
          length of certain council members' terms

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section
     2  2590-b of the education law is amended by adding a  new  clause  (C)  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (C)  Commencing  on  July first, two thousand twenty-two, the board of
     5  education shall consist of fifteen members: one member to  be  appointed
     6  by  each  borough  president of the city of New York, one  member to  be
     7  elected by community district education  and  city-wide  council  presi-
     8  dents,  and nine members to be appointed by the mayor of the city of New
     9  York. On or before December thirty-first, two thousand  twenty-one,  the
    10  chancellor  shall  promulgate  regulations  establishing  a  process for
    11  community district education and city-wide council presidents to elect a
    12  member  of  the  board, and processes for removal of such member and for
    13  the filling of such position in the event of a vacancy. The first member
    14  elected by community district education and city-wide council presidents
    15  pursuant to such regulations shall take office on July first, two  thou-
    16  sand  twenty-two and shall serve a term that ends on June thirtieth, two
    17  thousand twenty-four. Thereafter,  the    member  elected  by  community
    18  district  education  and  city-wide council presidents shall serve for a
    19  two year term commencing on July first.
    20    § 2. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section  2590-b
    21  of  the education law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is
    22  amended to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (1) nine voting members who shall be parents of students with individ-
     2  ualized education programs, to be selected by parents of  students  with
     3  individualized  education  programs pursuant to a representative process
     4  developed by the chancellor. Such members shall serve a  two  year  term
     5  and  shall  be  eligible  to  continue  serving their term following the
     6  conclusion of their child's individualized education program;
     7    § 3. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  5  of  section
     8  2590-b  of  the  education law, as amended by chapter 103 of the laws of
     9  2013, is amended to read as follows:
    10    (i) nine voting members who shall be parents of students who [are]  at
    11  any  time  in  the  past  enrolled in a bilingual or English as a second
    12  language program conducted pursuant to section thirty-two  hundred  four
    13  of  this chapter[, some of whom may be parents of students who have been
    14  in such a program within the preceding two years],  to  be  selected  by
    15  parents  of  students  who  receive  or have ever received such services
    16  pursuant to a representative process developed by the  chancellor.  Such
    17  members  shall  serve  a two year term and shall be eligible to continue
    18  serving their term following the conclusion of their child's  enrollment
    19  in a bilingual or English as a second language program;
    20    §  4.  Subparagraph  (i)  of paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section
    21  2590-b of the education law, as amended by section 43-g of part  YYY  of
    22  chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
    23    (i)  ten  voting  members  who  shall be parents of students attending
    24  public high schools. For councils whose terms begin prior to  two  thou-
    25  sand  twenty, two members representing each borough shall be selected by
    26  presidents and officers of the parents' associations or parent-teachers'
    27  associations in the relevant borough, pursuant to a process  established
    28  by  the chancellor. For councils whose terms begin in two thousand twen-
    29  ty-one [and thereafter], two members representing each borough shall  be
    30  parents of public high school students in the relevant borough, pursuant
    31  to  a process established by the chancellor.  Such members shall serve a
    32  two year term, and shall be eligible  to  continue  serving  their  term
    33  following  the  conclusion  of their child's attendance at a public high
    34  school.  For councils whose terms begin in two thousand  twenty-two  and
    35  thereafter,  two  members representing each borough shall be selected by
    36  parents of public high school students in the relevant borough, pursuant
    37  to a process established by the chancellor. Such members shall  serve  a
    38  two  year  term,  and  shall  be eligible to continue serving their term
    39  following the conclusion of their child's attendance at  a  public  high
    40  school;
    41    §  5.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
    42  the amendments to section 2590-b of the education law made  by  sections
    43  one,  two, three and four of this act shall not affect the expiration or
    44  repeal of such provisions and shall expire and be deemed repealed there-
    45  with.