Bill Text: NY S01354 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the state education commissioner to require public school districts to report on compliance with art education instruction requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-24 - referred to education [S01354 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01354-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1354

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. SERRANO, ADDABBO, BAILEY, KRUEGER, PARKER, STAVISKY
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to directing the  commis-
          sioner  of  education  to require public school districts to report on
          compliance with art education instruction requirements

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 817 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 817. Compliance with art education instruction requirements.  1. The
     4  commissioner  shall  create a procedure in which school district compli-
     5  ance with art education instruction requirements as required by law  and
     6  regulation  in  elementary and secondary grades in all public schools is
     7  reported to the department by each school  district.  Each  such  report
     8  shall  include  but not be limited to the following information for each
     9  school district:
    10    a. how many and which schools do not have art education instruction as
    11  required by law and regulation;
    12    b. the reason or reasons why the schools in paragraph a of this subdi-
    13  vision are not in compliance with  art  education  instruction  require-
    14  ments;
    15    c.  the  maximum  number  of  students  who  can receive art education
    16  instruction at each school and how many students currently  receive  art
    17  education instruction at each school;
    18    d.  how  many  and  which  schools do not employ a teacher or teachers
    19  certified in art education for art education instruction;
    20    e. how many and which schools do not provide the class  time  for  art
    21  education  instruction  as required by law and regulation and the reason
    22  or reasons why the schools do not  provide  appropriate  time  for  such
    23  instruction; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03175-01-1
        S. 1354                             2

     1    f. how many and which schools are not in compliance with art education
     2  instruction  requirements  established  in  law and regulation or are in
     3  violation of any art education-related law or regulation.
     4    2.  Each  superintendent  of a school district which contains at least
     5  one school which is not in compliance  with  art  education  instruction
     6  requirements established in law and regulation shall:
     7    a. prepare a corrective action plan to be reviewed and approved by the
     8  board of education at a public meeting; and
     9    b.  to the extent practicable, begin implementation of such corrective
    10  action plan the following school year.
    11    3. A list of the school districts that fail to comply with the report-
    12  ing requirements in subdivision one of this section shall be  posted  on
    13  the department's website.
    14    4.  On  or  before July first, two thousand twenty-two, and every year
    15  thereafter, the commissioner shall report to the governor, the temporary
    16  president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairs  of
    17  the senate and assembly committees on education the commissioner's find-
    18  ings  based  on  the information reported pursuant to subdivision one of
    19  this section, including an analysis and explanation  of  the  data,  and
    20  shall identify steps that can be taken to ensure that all public schools
    21  are in compliance with art education instruction requirements in elemen-
    22  tary and secondary grades.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.