Provides that parent or guardian shall give notice to school district wherein child resides of intent to send child to charter school; such notice shall be sent prior to April first in the year that the child is to attend the charter school in September, or within thirty days of establishing residence in the school district.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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48
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. FUSCHILLO -- 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 notice to school
districts regarding intent to attend a charter school
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2854 of the education law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) A parent or guardian of a child residing in any school district,
4 or any representative authorized by such parent or guardian, who desires
5 for a child to attend a charter school shall submit a written notice
6 thereof to the school trustees or board of education of such district
7 not later than the first day of April preceding the next school year,
8 and in the case where such pupil attends a nonpublic school, notice
9 shall also be provided to such nonpublic school, provided, however, that
10 a parent or guardian of a child not residing in the district on such
11 date shall submit a written notice within thirty days after establishing
12 residence in the district.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00926-01-9
