Requires the commissioner of education to approve all admissions policy changes in a city school district, in a city with a population of one million or more.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7684
IN SENATE
February 8, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. HAMILTON -- 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 admission policy
changes in a city school district in a city having a population of one
million or more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five hundred ninety-i
5 of this article, maintain such jurisdiction over city-wide educational
6 policies governing the special, academic, vocational, and other high
7 schools authorized by this article [before the effective date of this
8 section] as the respective community district education councils main-
9 tain over the schools within their jurisdiction, which shall not be
10 construed to require or authorize the day-to-day supervision or the
11 administration of the operations of such schools. Provided, further, the
12 chancellor shall request, in writing, approval from the commissioner
13 prior to implementing any admissions policy changes and the commissioner
14 shall wait a minimum of ninety days from receipt of such request before
15 making a final determination. Within thirty days of receipt of a
16 request, the commissioner shall issue a notice for public comment and
17 such public comment period shall remain open for thirty days. All public
18 comments collected during such thirty day period shall be considered
19 prior to final determination.
20 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as added by
21 chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
22 4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five hundred ninety-i
23 of this article, maintain such jurisdiction over policies governing the
24 special, academic, vocational and other high schools authorized by this
25 article [before the effective date of this section] as the respective
26 community boards maintain over the schools within their jurisdiction,
27 which shall not be construed to require or authorize the day-to-day
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 supervision or the administration of the operations of such schools.
2 Provided, further, the chancellor shall request, in writing, approval
3 from the commissioner prior to implementing any admissions policy chang-
4 es and the commissioner shall wait a minimum of ninety days from receipt
5 of such request before making a final determination. Within thirty days
6 of receipt of a request, the commissioner shall issue a notice for
7 public comment and such public comment period shall remain open for
8 thirty days. All public comments collected during such thirty day period
9 shall be considered prior to final determination.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
11 ment to subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law made by
12 section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion
13 of such section pursuant to section 34 of chapter 91 of the laws of
14 2002, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of
15 this act shall take effect.