STATE OF NEW YORK
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8208--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 11, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to adjusting state qual-
itative skill education assessment standards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 669-e of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. The commissioner shall authorize the department and the board of
4 education, in accordance with qualitative and quantitative skills
5 assessments of students' performance, standards regarding (a) what grade
6 level STEM education is introduced prior to higher education, (b) what
7 constitutes an acceptable curriculum for STEM, and (c) the creation of
8 an evaluative rubric to examine student and teacher progress in STEM
9 fields. The board and department are also authorized to create a curric-
10 ulum for training teachers who will be engaged in STEM fields to
11 adequately prepare them for STEM curriculum in their classrooms. Such
12 curriculum must be made available to all teachers responsible for
13 science and math courses in primary and secondary schools and all teach-
14 ers must have the opportunity to train under new STEM standards.
15 § 2. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
16 subdivision 55 to read as follows:
17 55. The commissioner shall direct the department and the board of
18 education to promulgate rules and regulations regarding science, tech-
19 nology, engineering and math (STEM) education pursuant to subdivision
20 six of section six hundred sixty-nine-e of this chapter.
21 § 3. 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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