Authorizes the commissioner of education to require the education department to report on the number and percentage of NYC high school students discharged to GED programs and the number and percentage of successful completions of such programs.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5853
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT, COLTON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to GED program account-
ability
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 35 of section 305 of the education law, as
2 added by chapter 667 of the laws of 2006, is renumbered subdivision 43
3 and a new subdivision 44 is added to read as follows:
4 44. The commissioner is authorized and directed to require the depart-
5 ment to include and report the number and percentage of New York city
6 high school students being discharged into GED programs and the number
7 and percentage of successful completions of all GED programs that the
8 New York city department of education discharges students into. Such
9 report detailing the progress of such students shall be provided to the
10 legislature and the New York city council on an annual basis.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
12 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
13 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
14 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
15 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such
16 effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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