Requires that, in every school district in cities having a population of 1,000,000 or more, there shall be employed in every elementary school with non-English speaking pupils, at least one teacher who is licensed as a teacher of English as a secondary language for every fifty non-English speaking pupils or fraction thereof.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5563
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. V. LOPEZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to educational programs
for certain non-English speaking pupils in a city having a population
of one million or more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3204 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in a
4 school district in a city having a population of one million or more,
5 there shall be employed in every elementary school with non-English
6 speaking pupils at least one teacher who is licensed as a teacher of
7 English as a second language for every fifty non-English speaking pupils
8 or fraction thereof, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the
9 commissioner consistent with this subdivision.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
11 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
12 ment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
13 mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on
14 or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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