Bill Text: NY S07647 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs for certified teachers already holding a graduate degree; exempts certified teachers who already hold a graduate degree from the graduate record examination or substantially equivalent admission examination requirement.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-15 - referred to higher education [S07647 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07647-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7647
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 12, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to admission requirements
          for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs for  certi-
          fied teachers already holding a graduate degree
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 210-a of the education law, as added by  section  1
     2  of subpart B of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    §  210-a. Admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educa-
     5  tional leader programs. Each institution registered  by  the  department
     6  with  graduate-level  teacher  and leader education programs shall adopt
     7  rigorous selection criteria geared to predicting a candidate's  academic
     8  success in its program, including but not limited to, a minimum score on
     9  the  graduate record examination or a substantially equivalent admission
    10  examination, as determined by the  institution,  and  achievement  of  a
    11  cumulative  grade  point  average  of  3.0  or higher in the candidate's
    12  undergraduate program, such graduate record examination or substantially
    13  equivalent admission examination requirement shall in no case  apply  to
    14  certified  teachers who already hold a graduate degree. Each program may
    15  exempt no more than fifteen percent of any incoming  class  of  students
    16  from  such  selection  criteria  set  forth  in  this section based on a
    17  student's demonstration of potential to  positively  contribute  to  the
    18  teaching  profession  or other extenuating circumstances pursuant to the
    19  regulations of the commissioner. A program shall report to  the  depart-
    20  ment  the number of students admitted pursuant to such exemption and the
    21  selection criteria used for such exemptions.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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