S02923 Summary:

BILL NOS02923
 
SAME ASSAME AS UNI. A04265
 
SPONSORADDABBO
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add S4454, Ed L
 
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.
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S02923 Actions:

BILL NOS02923
 
01/30/2015REFERRED TO EDUCATION
01/06/2016REFERRED TO EDUCATION
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S02923 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
            S. 2923                                                  A. 4265
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 30, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        IN  SENATE  --  Introduced  by  Sens. ADDABBO, SAMPSON -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Education
 
        IN  ASSEMBLY  --  Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, AUBRY, JAFFEE, SCARBOR-
          OUGH, TITONE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of A. MAGNARELLI,  McDONOUGH
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
        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    §  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.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07825-01-5

        S. 2923                             2                            A. 4265
 
     1    3. The department shall provide each school district  with  curriculum
     2  frameworks  which  shall  suggest a variety of activities and strategies
     3  that may assist in the development of local  curricula  for  gifted  and
     4  twice-exceptional  pupils.    Such  frameworks shall address adaptations
     5  that  are  educationally  challenging  for  gifted and twice-exceptional
     6  pupils in core subject areas as identified by the department.
     7    4. In addition, the  school  boards  of  each  school  district  shall
     8  provide  professional development and program evaluation, differentiated
     9  instruction, contact time, social and emotional support, academic  guid-
    10  ance  and  counseling, and content-based acceleration, and encourage the
    11  active involvement of  representatives  from  the  community,  business,
    12  industry,  labor,  and higher education in the development of the gifted
    13  and talented program.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    15  the  date  on  which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that
    16  the commissioner of education is authorized to promulgate any rules  and
    17  regulations necessary for the effective implementation of this act on or
    18  before such date.
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