Establishes the single gender core course academies demonstration program within the education department; provides that such program shall be established in 4 elementary schools, 8 middle schools and 1 high school which are low performing schools in each of the cities of New York, Yonkers, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo; provides that the program shall provide single gender classroom instruction in English, social studies, mathematics and science; requires such schools to report progress to the department and a university center of the state university of New York for study and reporting to the governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly; students shall participate in such program upon consent of their parents.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4788
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA, ROBINSON, SCOZZAFAVA, BOYLAND --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, COOK, CYMBROWITZ, DIAZ, MAYER-
SOHN, ORTIZ, PEOPLES, POWELL, RAMOS, J. RIVERA, TOWNS, WRIGHT -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the
single gender core course academies demonstration program; and provid-
ing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
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 3209-b
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3209-b. Single gender core course academies demonstration program.
4 1. The department shall establish a single gender core course academies
5 demonstration program which shall provide for the instruction of courses
6 in English, mathematics, science and social studies in gender separated
7 classes for a portion of the pupils in each grade level within schools
8 selected to participate in such program. All other courses shall be
9 instructed in coeducational classes.
10 2. The department shall designate the schools which shall participate
11 in the single gender core course academies demonstration program. The
12 schools selected shall be low-performing schools within each of the
13 cities of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers. Such
14 program shall be implemented in four elementary schools, eight middle
15 schools and one high school of the city school district of each such
16 city.
17 3. The department shall implement the single gender core course acade-
18 mies demonstration program in conjunction with a university center of
19 the state university of New York, selected by the commissioner, which
20 offers post graduate degrees in education. Such university center shall
21 utilize such program to study and research the social and academic
22 achievements and gains of students participating in the demonstration
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 program in comparison to the social and academic achievements of a simi-
2 larly situated group of students not participating in the program.
3 4. No student in a participating school shall be required to partic-
4 ipate in the single gender core course academies demonstration program
5 without the consent of their parent, guardian or person in loco paren-
6 tis.
7 5. The program established pursuant to this section shall be imple-
8 mented on September first or January first, whichever shall occur first
9 after the effective date of this section.
10 6. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations requiring
11 participating schools to annually report to the department and the
12 university center, selected pursuant to subdivision three of this
13 section, monitor and maintain records on the progress in the school for
14 each single gender core course in each grade and gender. All such
15 reports shall be compiled and compared to data on students not partic-
16 ipating in the program established by this section, and shall be annual-
17 ly reported on or before September first to the governor, temporary
18 president of the senate and speaker of the assembly.
19 7. Each participating school shall provide the information, required
20 to be submitted to the department pursuant to subdivision six of this
21 section, to the parents of the students in such school by means of its
22 regularly scheduled publications or communications process.
23 8. On or before August thirty-first, two thousand fourteen, the
24 department shall submit a report to the governor, temporary president of
25 the senate and speaker of the assembly, on the progress achieved by
26 participating schools during the entirety of the demonstration program.
27 Such progress shall be reported based on grade level, course subject,
28 gender, ethnic background and school.
29 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
30 it shall have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed
31 September 1, 2014; provided that any rules and regulations or any other
32 actions necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effec-
33 tive date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such
34 date.
