Authorizes the chancellor of the city school district to control and operate certain specialized high schools in the city of New York; adds specific specialized high schools to the list of schools which the chancellor is authorized to control and operate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10073
IN ASSEMBLY
June 11, 2014
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Nolan) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing the chan-
cellor of the city district to control and operate certain specialized
high schools in the city of New York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the
2 education law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The special high schools
5 shall include the present schools known as:
6 The Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn
7 Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and
8 the Arts in the borough of Manhattan, Brooklyn Latin School, High School
9 for Math, Science and Engineering at City College, High School of Ameri-
10 can Studies at Lehman College, Queens High School for the Sciences at
11 York College, Aviation High School, Townsend Harris High School and
12 Staten Island Technical High School and such [further] additional
13 schools which the city board may designate from time to time. The
14 special schools shall be permitted to maintain a discovery program in
15 accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the effective
16 date of this section; admissions to the special schools shall be
17 conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
18 effective date of this section;
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
20 the amendments made to paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h
21 of the education law made by section one of this act shall not affect
22 the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15568-01-4