ADDABBO, BAILEY, BROUK, CHU, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, KENNEDY, MAY, RAMOS, SALAZAR
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Relates to expanding access to advanced courses to improve educational equity beginning with notification to parents and students on the benefits and opportunities offered as well as automatic enrollment opportunities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5650--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 10, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. LIU, BAILEY, BROUK, GOUNARDES, KENNEDY, RAMOS, SALA-
ZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit-
ted to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expanding access to
advanced courses to improve educational equity
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 817 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 817. Expanding access to advanced courses to improve educational
4 equity. 1. Each school district and charter school shall annually
5 provide notification to parents and students of the benefits and the
6 opportunities within the district or charter school of participating in
7 advanced courses.
8 2. Such notification shall include:
9 a. the benefits of participating in advanced courses;
10 b. a description of the advanced courses offered by the school
11 district or charter school in middle and high school and how to prepare
12 for and enroll in them;
13 c. a description of the advanced courses to be offered by the school
14 district or charter school in the following school year; and
15 d. a description of the academic and non-academic support the school
16 district or charter school provides to help students succeed in advanced
17 courses, as well as any financial assistance available to reduce or
18 eliminate any costs associated with participation in advanced courses,
19 including but not limited to related fees, supplies, and assessments.
20 3. Notification shall be provided electronically or by mail and be
21 posted on the website of the school district or charter school.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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