Relates to directing the board of regents and the state education department to conduct a study and make recommendations on the readiness of children to start kindergarten and adjusting the age of mandatory attendance from minors who become five years of age after the first of December to minors who become five years of age after the first of September.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8413--A
IN SENATE
May 7, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT directing the board of regents and the state education department
to conduct a study and make recommendations on the readiness of chil-
dren to start kindergarten and adjusting the age of mandatory attend-
ance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The board of regents, in consultation with the state educa-
2 tion department, shall study the readiness of children in the state to
3 start kindergarten and investigate the appropriateness of adjusting the
4 age of required attendance to start kindergarten in New York state to
5 minors who become five years of age after the first of September in any
6 school year.
7 § 2. The board of regents shall, on or before April 1, 2019, report
8 the findings, conclusions and recommendations of such study to the
9 governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15429-03-8
