Bill Text: NY A06450 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring the commissioner of education to establish and enforce rules and regulations to incorporate the structured multisensory approach into the already required literacy curriculum for all teachers.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A06450 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06450-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6450
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 7, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the incorpo-
          ration of the  structured  multisensory  approach  into  all  required
          literacy courses for prospective teachers
          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 57 to read as follows:
     3    57. 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  evidence-
     7  based,  effective  methods  of  teaching  reading,  which  shall include
     8  instruction in direct and explicit structured  multisensory  approaches,
     9  also  known as structured literacy, within the current required literacy
    10  curriculum.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10261-03-9