Relates to authorizing private special education schools to seek department approval to offer alternative high school equivalency preparation programs.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6220--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. MARCELLINO, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Educa-
tion -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing private
special education schools to seek department approval to offer alter-
native high school equivalency preparation programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 13-a to read as follows:
3 13-a. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations authorizing
4 private special education schools to seek department approval to oper-
5 ate, administer, offer, or otherwise participate in an alternative high
6 school equivalency preparation program. Such regulations shall ensure
7 that students selected for an alternative high school equivalency prepa-
8 ration program is limited to those students with a credit deficiency
9 that cannot be made up before they turn twenty-one years of age.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11470-02-8
