Establishes an alternatively assessed student program in the New York City school district which allows one student, per school, per year, to be hired as a school aid in any public school within such district.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5054
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 22, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on New York City Education
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to establishing an alternatively assessed student program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Title 21-A of the administrative code of the city of New
2 York is amended by adding a new chapter 12-A to read as follows:
3 Chapter 12-A
4 Alternatively Assessed Student Program
5 § 21-974.5 Alternatively assessed student program. 1. The chancellor
6 is hereby authorized to create an alternatively assessed student program
7 within all public schools in the department that include grades nine
8 through twelve.
9 2. Such program would allow one individual, per school, per year, to
10 be hired as a school aid in any public school within the department. To
11 qualify for such position, such candidate must be qualified as an alter-
12 natively assessed student as determined by the committee on special
13 education.
14 3. The chancellor may promulgate any necessary rules and regulations
15 to ensure the success of such program.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
17 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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