STATE OF NEW YORK
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7923--C
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 19, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN, TITONE, JEAN-PIERRE, DE LA ROSA --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, SIMON -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee -- 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 committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to improving educational
outcomes for homeless school age children
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 3209 of the education law is
2 renumbered subdivision 12 and two new subdivisions 10 and 11 are added
3 to read as follows:
4 10. a. By January thirty-first, two thousand twenty, and every even-
5 numbered year thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the governor
6 and the legislature a report including, but not limited to:
7 (1) the number of identified homeless school age children enrolled in
8 public schools;
9 (2) the academic performance and educational outcomes of homeless
10 school age children, including but not limited to the following:
11 (i) student scores on the statewide administered academic assessments;
12 (ii) English language proficiency;
13 (iii) dropout rates;
14 (iv) four-year adjusted graduation rate;
15 (v) five-year adjusted graduation rate;
16 (vi) absenteeism rates;
17 (vii) truancy rates, if available; and
18 (viii) suspension and expulsion data.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 b. The data reported pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision must
2 include state and district-level information and must be disaggregated
3 by at least the following subgroups of school age children: white,
4 black, Hispanic, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian, Pacific
5 Islander/Hawaiian Native, low income, transitional bilingual, migrant,
6 special education, and gender.
7 11. The commissioner, in collaboration with experts from community
8 organizations on homelessness and homeless education policy, shall
9 develop a homeless education policy on how to better provide services
10 and support to homeless school age children and on how to utilize feder-
11 al title I funding.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
