Requires that school districts establish a gifted and talented program for gifted and twice-exceptional pupils; establishes guidelines as to the development of such programs and the identification of gifted and twice-exceptional pupils.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 3812 A. 3142
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, AUBRY, JAFFEE, TITONE --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MAGNARELLI, McDONOUGH -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring school
districts to establish programs for gifted and twice-exceptional
pupils
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 4454
2 to read as follows:
3 § 4454. Gifted and talented program. 1. Each school district in this
4 state shall establish a district-wide gifted and talented program for
5 pupils who meet the criteria established in subdivision one of section
6 forty-four hundred fifty-two of this article, and shall be responsible
7 for ensuring that appropriate instructional adaptations including, but
8 not limited to gifted IEPs (GIEPs) developed by certified gifted and
9 talented learning specialists, differentiated instruction, contact time,
10 social and emotional support, academic guidance and counseling, and
11 content-based acceleration, are designed and delivered for such pupils.
12 2. Each school district shall establish an ongoing identification
13 process for gifted pupils, including twice-exceptional pupils, initiated
14 in pre-kindergarten and reviewed annually through grade twelve. The
15 school district shall ensure that the identification methodology employs
16 multifaceted criteria consistent with recommended practices in the
17 field, and is developmentally appropriate, non-discriminatory, and
18 related to the programs and services offered.
19 3. The department shall provide each school district with curriculum
20 frameworks which shall suggest a variety of activities and strategies
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 that may assist in the development of local curricula for gifted and
2 twice-exceptional pupils. Such frameworks shall address adaptations
3 that are educationally challenging for gifted and twice-exceptional
4 pupils in core subject areas as identified by the department.
5 4. In addition, the school boards of each school district shall
6 provide professional development and program evaluation, differentiated
7 instruction, contact time, social and emotional support, academic guid-
8 ance and counseling, and content-based acceleration, and encourage the
9 active involvement of representatives from the community, business,
10 industry, labor, and higher education in the development of the gifted
11 and talented program.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
13 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that
14 the commissioner of education is authorized to promulgate any rules and
15 regulations necessary for the effective implementation of this act on or
16 before such date.
