STATE OF NEW YORK
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5523
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 the creation of a
pre-specialized high schools admissions test and preparation program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2590-h of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 57 to read as follows:
3 57. Establish, in conjunction with the appropriate New York city
4 department of education officials, a test preparation program for
5 students in the sixth grade culminating in a pre-specialized high
6 schools admissions test to be administered in May or June of each year.
7 Such test preparation and the pre-specialized high schools admissions
8 test shall be available to all sixth grade students free of charge
9 during the regular operating hours of the school day. Parents may
10 choose for their student to not be a part of the test preparation
11 program. Upon completion of the program, each student, their parents,
12 and their school shall receive a gap analysis. Schools shall use each
13 student's gap analysis to tailor the student's instruction to meet the
14 needs of the student including, but not limited to, the use of the
15 specialized high schools admissions test intensive or any other New York
16 city department of education program available.
17 § 2. Section 2590-h of the education law is amended by adding a new
18 subdivision 39 to read as follows:
19 39. Establish, in conjunction with the appropriate New York city
20 department of education officials, a test preparation program for
21 students in the sixth grade culminating in a pre-specialized high
22 schools admissions test to be administered in May or June of each year.
23 Such test preparation and the pre-specialized high schools admissions
24 test shall be available to all sixth grade students free of charge
25 during the regular operating hours of the school day. Parents may
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 choose for their student to not be a part of the test preparation
2 program. Upon completion of the program, each student, their parents,
3 and their school shall receive a gap analysis. Schools shall use each
4 student's gap analysis to tailor the student's instruction to meet the
5 needs of the student including, but not limited to, the use of the
6 specialized high schools admissions test intensive or any other New York
7 city department of education program available.
8 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
9 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided that the amend-
10 ments to section 2590-h of the education law, made by section one of
11 this act, shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such
12 section, pursuant to subdivision 12 of section 17 of chapter 345 of the
13 laws of 2009, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section
14 two of this act shall take effect. Effective immediately, the addition,
15 amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the
16 implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be
17 made and completed on or before such effective date.
