Bill Text: NY S01464 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to funds for innovation grants for programs to create public/private partnerships to develop and implement innovative, technology-based learning strategies to serve high-need pupils and pupils who are at risk of not meeting the New York state learning standards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01464 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01464-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1464
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. FUNKE, GOLDEN -- 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 the fund for inno-
          vation grants
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  3641 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17. Funds for innovation grants.  a.  In  addition  to  apportionments
     4  otherwise  provided pursuant to this article, for aid payable in the two
     5  thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen school  year  and  thereafter,
     6  thirty  million  dollars  shall  be  available and allocated pursuant to
     7  paragraphs b and c of this subdivision and shall be paid for programs to
     8  create public/private partnerships to develop and implement  innovative,
     9  technology-based  learning  strategies  to  serve  high-need  pupils and
    10  pupils who are at risk of not meeting the New York state learning stand-
    11  ards pursuant to regulations of the  commissioner,  including,  but  not
    12  limited  to,  the  creation  of  one-to-one  laptop  pilot programs, the
    13  purchase of content-based software  and/or  support  of  programs  which
    14  provide  New  York state learning standards-aligned educational content,
    15  class lessons and related professional development.
    16    b. Any school district located in a city with  at  least  one  hundred
    17  twenty-five thousand inhabitants, shall be eligible for a grant pursuant
    18  to this section for the purposes contained in paragraph a of this subdi-
    19  vision.  Any  school district located within a city with a population of
    20  one million or more inhabitants shall be eligible for an amount of up to
    21  forty percent of the total amount allocated pursuant to this  paragraph.
    22  Any  city school district of a city having a population of less than one
    23  million but in excess of one hundred twenty-five  thousand  inhabitants,
    24  shall  be  eligible  for  an amount equal to the product, rounded to the
    25  nearest dollar, of (i) sixty  percent  of  the  total  amount  allocated
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  pursuant to this paragraph, and (ii) the quotient of the district's base
     2  year  enrollment on file with the commissioner as of the date upon which
     3  an electronic data file was created for the purposes of compliance  with
     4  paragraph  b  of subdivision twenty-one of section three hundred five of
     5  this chapter on November fifteenth of the base year, divided by the  sum
     6  of  such base year enrollments for all such city school districts.  Such
     7  grants shall not exceed fifteen million dollars and shall be awarded  by
     8  the  commissioner  pursuant  to a competitive grant process. The commis-
     9  sioner shall evaluate each grant application on the  basis  of  criteria
    10  including  but  not  limited  to:  the  technology  needs  of the school
    11  district, and the ability of the school  district  to  improve  academic
    12  performance by the use of these technologies.
    13    c.  Any  school  district  located outside of a city with at least one
    14  hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants, shall be eligible for a  grant
    15  pursuant  to  this  section for the purposes contained in paragraph a of
    16  this subdivision. Such grants shall not exceed fifteen  million  dollars
    17  and shall be awarded by the commissioner pursuant to a competitive grant
    18  process.  The  commissioner shall evaluate each grant application on the
    19  basis of criteria including but not limited to, the technology needs  of
    20  the  school  district, and the ability of the school district to improve
    21  academic performance by the use of these technologies.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.