Bill Text: NY A03937 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to establish and enforce rules and regulations to incorporate at least a three credit course devoted to the instructional techniques necessary for effective literacy instruction which shall include delivering structured, systematic, explicit, evidence-based instruction aligned with the science of reading for prospective teachers.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-30 - referred to education [A03937 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03937-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3937

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 30, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. SIMON, DeSTEFANO, HEVESI, WALSH, REYES, RAGA --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. R. CARROLL, CRUZ, HUNTER,  RA,  RIVERA,
          ROSENTHAL,  SAYEGH,  STIRPE, WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the incorpo-
          ration of structured, explicit, language and evidence-based approaches
          to literacy instruction aligned with the science of  reading  into  at
          least  three  credits of the six credits of literacy courses currently
          required for prospective teachers in accredited college  of  education
          programs

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

     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 63 to read as follows:
     3    63. The commissioner shall establish and enforce rules and regulations
     4  requiring every institution of higher education that offers  a  graduate
     5  or  undergraduate degree or certification program in education or educa-
     6  tional administration located within the state to incorporate at least a
     7  three-credit course devoted to the  instructional  techniques  necessary
     8  for effective literacy instruction. Such course shall impart to prospec-
     9  tive  and current teachers language-based, effective methods of teaching
    10  reading, which  shall  include  instruction  in  delivering  structured,
    11  systematic,   explicit,  evidence-based  instruction  aligned  with  the
    12  science of reading,  also  known  as  structured  literacy,  within  the
    13  current required literacy curriculum.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04659-02-5