Directs the commissioner of education to study and report on the provision of services to public school students in grades 8 through 12 by guidance counselors.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6373--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
RAMOS, RIVERA, RODRIGUEZ, SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to direct the commissioner of education to examine, evaluate and
make recommendations on the provision of services by public school
guidance counselors to students in grades 8 through 12
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The commissioner of education is hereby directed to exam-
2 ine, evaluate and make recommendations on the provision of services to
3 public school students in grades 8 through 12 by guidance counselors.
4 Such commissioner shall study, with particular care:
5 (a) the ratio of guidance counselors to students in grades 8 through
6 12, by public school, school district and statewide;
7 (b) the amount of time each guidance counselor spends with each
8 student in grades 8 through 12 during a school year, by public school,
9 school district and statewide;
10 (c) the number of students in grades 8 through 12 each guidance coun-
11 selor interviews during a school quarter, by public school, school
12 district and statewide;
13 (d) the number of students in each grade that are interviewed by a
14 guidance counselor during a school quarter, by public school, school
15 district and statewide;
16 (e) the services guidance counselors provide to students in grades 8
17 through 12, by public school and school district;
18 (f) the number of hours guidance counselors are available to students
19 in grades 8 through 12 each school day, by public school, school
20 district and statewide;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (g) the types and frequency of guidance counselor services that should
2 be provided to public school students in grades 8 through 12.
3 § 2. On or before January 1, 2020, the commissioner of education shall
4 submit a report of his or her findings, conclusions and recommendations
5 to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of
6 the assembly, and the chairs of the senate and assembly committees on
7 education. Such report shall also include such legislative proposals as
8 the commissioner deems necessary to implement his or her recommenda-
9 tions.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
