STATE OF NEW YORK
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4659
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 13, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain
procedures for charter school students facing suspension
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section 2854 of the
2 education law, as added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (d) A student may withdraw from a charter school at any time and
5 enroll in a public school. A charter school may refuse admission to any
6 student who has been expelled or suspended from a public school until
7 the period of suspension or expulsion from the public school has
8 expired, consistent with the requirements of due process. A student may
9 only be suspended from a charter school in accordance with the
10 provisions of subdivision three of section thirty-two hundred fourteen
11 of this chapter.
12 (i) The terms "superintendent", "superintendent of schools", "district
13 superintendent of schools" or "community superintendent", as used in
14 subdivision three of section thirty-two hundred fourteen of this chap-
15 ter, as they relate to charter schools shall mean the chairperson of the
16 board of trustees of the charter school.
17 (ii) The terms "board of education" or "board" as used in subdivision
18 three of section thirty-two hundred fourteen of this chapter, as they
19 relate to charter schools, shall mean the board of trustees of the char-
20 ter school.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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