Designates Aviation High School in New York City as a special New York city high school which requires admission based by "solely and exclusively taking a competitive, objective and scholastic achievement examination".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4613
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 24, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. ONORATO, THOMPSON -- 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 including Aviation
High School as a special high school in New York city
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the
2 education law, as amended by chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (b) all specialized senior high schools. The special high schools
5 shall include the present schools known as:
6 The Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Aviation
7 High School, Brooklyn Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High
8 School of Music and the Arts in the borough of Manhattan, and such
9 further schools which the city board may designate from time to time.
10 The special schools shall be permitted to maintain a discovery program
11 in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the effective
12 date of this section; admissions to the special schools shall be
13 conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
14 effective date of this section;
15 § 2. 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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