Bill Text: NY S07684 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to approve all admissions policy changes in a city school district, in a city with a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S07684 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07684-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7684
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 8, 2018
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        Introduced  by Sen. HAMILTON -- 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  admission  policy
          changes in a city school district in a city having a population of one
          million or more
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  345  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five  hundred  ninety-i
     5  of  this  article, maintain such jurisdiction over city-wide educational
     6  policies governing the special, academic,  vocational,  and  other  high
     7  schools  authorized  by  this article [before the effective date of this
     8  section] as the respective community district education  councils  main-
     9  tain  over  the  schools  within  their jurisdiction, which shall not be
    10  construed to require or authorize  the  day-to-day  supervision  or  the
    11  administration of the operations of such schools. Provided, further, the
    12  chancellor  shall  request,  in  writing, approval from the commissioner
    13  prior to implementing any admissions policy changes and the commissioner
    14  shall wait a minimum of ninety days from receipt of such request  before
    15  making  a  final  determination.  Within  thirty  days  of  receipt of a
    16  request, the commissioner shall issue a notice for  public  comment  and
    17  such public comment period shall remain open for thirty days. All public
    18  comments  collected  during  such  thirty day period shall be considered
    19  prior to final determination.
    20    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as added by
    21  chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
    22    4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five  hundred  ninety-i
    23  of  this article, maintain such jurisdiction over policies governing the
    24  special, academic, vocational and other high schools authorized by  this
    25  article  [before  the  effective date of this section] as the respective
    26  community boards maintain over the schools  within  their  jurisdiction,
    27  which  shall  not  be  construed  to require or authorize the day-to-day
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  supervision or the administration of the  operations  of  such  schools.
     2  Provided,  further,  the  chancellor shall request, in writing, approval
     3  from the commissioner prior to implementing any admissions policy chang-
     4  es and the commissioner shall wait a minimum of ninety days from receipt
     5  of  such request before making a final determination. Within thirty days
     6  of receipt of a request, the  commissioner  shall  issue  a  notice  for
     7  public  comment  and  such  public  comment period shall remain open for
     8  thirty days. All public comments collected during such thirty day period
     9  shall be considered prior to final determination.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
    11  ment  to  subdivision  4  of section 2590-g of the education law made by
    12  section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion
    13  of such section pursuant to section 34 of chapter  91  of  the  laws  of
    14  2002,  as  amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of
    15  this act shall take effect.