Bill Text: NY S03389 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires that school districts establish a gifted and talented program for gifted and twice-exceptional pupils; establishes guidelines as to the development of such programs and the identification of gifted and twice-exceptional pupils.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S03389 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S03389-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3389--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 1, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee 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 requiring school
districts to establish programs for gifted and twice-exceptional
pupils
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 4454
2 to read as follows:
3 S 4454. GIFTED AND TALENTED PROGRAM. 1. EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THIS
4 STATE SHALL ESTABLISH A DISTRICT-WIDE GIFTED AND TALENTED PROGRAM FOR
5 PUPILS WHO MEET THE CRITERIA ESTABLISHED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION
6 FORTY-FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE, AND SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE
7 FOR ENSURING THAT APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTIONAL ADAPTATIONS INCLUDING, BUT
8 NOT LIMITED TO GIFTED IEPS (GIEPS) DEVELOPED BY CERTIFIED GIFTED AND
9 TALENTED LEARNING SPECIALISTS, DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION, CONTACT TIME,
10 SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, ACADEMIC GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING, AND
11 CONTENT-BASED ACCELERATION, ARE DESIGNED AND DELIVERED FOR SUCH PUPILS.
12 2. EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL ESTABLISH AN ONGOING IDENTIFICATION
13 PROCESS FOR GIFTED PUPILS, INCLUDING TWICE-EXCEPTIONAL PUPILS, INITIATED
14 IN PRE-KINDERGARTEN AND REVIEWED ANNUALLY THROUGH GRADE TWELVE. THE
15 SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL ENSURE THAT THE IDENTIFICATION METHODOLOGY EMPLOYS
16 MULTIFACETED CRITERIA CONSISTENT WITH RECOMMENDED PRACTICES IN THE
17 FIELD, AND IS DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE, NON-DISCRIMINATORY, AND
18 RELATED TO THE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES OFFERED.
19 3. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT WITH CURRICULUM
20 FRAMEWORKS WHICH SHALL SUGGEST A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES AND STRATEGIES
21 THAT MAY ASSIST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL CURRICULA FOR GIFTED AND
22 TWICE-EXCEPTIONAL PUPILS. SUCH FRAMEWORKS SHALL ADDRESS ADAPTATIONS
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 THAT ARE EDUCATIONALLY CHALLENGING FOR GIFTED AND TWICE-EXCEPTIONAL
2 PUPILS IN CORE SUBJECT AREAS AS IDENTIFIED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
3 4. IN ADDITION, THE SCHOOL BOARDS OF EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL
4 PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRAM EVALUATION, DIFFERENTIATED
5 INSTRUCTION, CONTACT TIME, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, ACADEMIC GUID-
6 ANCE AND COUNSELING, AND CONTENT-BASED ACCELERATION, AND ENCOURAGE THE
7 ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE COMMUNITY, BUSINESS,
8 INDUSTRY, LABOR, AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GIFTED
9 AND TALENTED PROGRAM.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
11 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that
12 the commissioner of education is authorized to promulgate any rules and
13 regulations necessary for the effective implementation of this act on or
14 before such date.
