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S01415 Summary:

BILL NOS01415
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORPARKER
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §§2590-h, add §2590-h-1, Ed L
 
Relates to admission to a special high school in the city of New York.
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S01415 Actions:

BILL NOS01415
 
01/14/2019REFERRED TO EDUCATION
01/15/2019COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION
01/08/2020REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION
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S01415 Memo:

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S01415 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1415
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 14, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  to  the
          specialized high schools in the city of New York
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section  2590-h  of  the
     2  education law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (b)  all  specialized [senior] high schools. The [special] specialized
     5  high schools shall include the [present] schools known as[:]
     6    The Bronx High School of Science,  Stuyvesant  High  School,  Brooklyn
     7  Technical  High  School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music [and
     8  the Arts in the borough of Manhattan] & Art  and  Performing  Arts,  and
     9  such  [further]  additional schools [which the city board may designate]
    10  as may be designated by the chancellor from time to time. The  [special]
    11  specialized  high  schools  shall  be  permitted to maintain a discovery
    12  program in accordance with the law in effect on the date  preceding  the
    13  effective  date  of  this  section; provided that the requirement that a
    14  student who is considered for the discovery program attend  and  pass  a
    15  preparatory  program administered by the specialized high school, demon-
    16  strating thereby his or  her  ability  to  successfully  cope  with  the
    17  specialized  high school program, shall refer to a program that can take
    18  place during the school year or the summer; admissions to the  [special]
    19  specialized  high schools shall be conducted in accordance with [the law
    20  in effect on the date preceding the  effective  date  of  this]  section
    21  twenty-five hundred ninety-h-l of this article;
    22    § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
    23  law,  as  amended by chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read
    24  as follows:
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00037-02-9

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     1    (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The  [special]  specialized
     2  high schools shall include the [present] schools known as[:]
     3    The  Bronx  High  School  of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn
     4  Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of  Music  [and
     5  the  Arts  in  the  borough of Manhattan] & Art and Performing Arts, and
     6  such [further] additional schools [which the city board  may  designate]
     7  as  may be designated by the chancellor from time to time. The [special]
     8  specialized high schools shall be  permitted  to  maintain  a  discovery
     9  program  in  accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
    10  effective date of this section; provided that  the  requirement  that  a
    11  student  who  is  considered for the discovery program attend and pass a
    12  preparatory program administered by the specialized high school,  demon-
    13  strating  thereby  his  or  her  ability  to  successfully cope with the
    14  specialized high school program, shall refer to a program that can  take
    15  place  during the school year or the summer; admissions to the [special]
    16  specialized high schools shall be conducted in accordance with [the  law
    17  in  effect  on  the  date  preceding the effective date of this] section
    18  twenty-five hundred ninety-h-1 of this article;
    19    § 3. The education law is amended by adding a new section 2590-h-1  to
    20  read as follows:
    21    § 2590-h-1. Admissions to the specialized high schools.  1. Admissions
    22  to  the  specialized  high schools shall be conducted in accordance with
    23  this section, provided  that  students  may  also  be  admitted  to  the
    24  specialized high schools for the two thousand twenty--two thousand twen-
    25  ty-one  and  the two thousand twenty-one--two thousand twenty-two school
    26  years pursuant to the discovery program as set forth in section  twenty-
    27  five hundred ninety-h of this article.
    28    2.  For the admissions process conducted during the two thousand nine-
    29  teen--two thousand twenty school year to  determine  admissions  to  the
    30  specialized high schools for the two thousand twenty--two thousand twen-
    31  ty-one  school  year,  students  who meet the criteria set forth in this
    32  subdivision shall be offered admission to the specialized  high  schools
    33  in the following order:
    34    (a)  students attending public schools located in the city of New York
    35  who are in the top three percent of their eighth grade class, as  calcu-
    36  lated  based  on  multiple  measures  of student achievement pursuant to
    37  subdivision five of this section, and  who  achieve  a  composite  score
    38  above  or  at  the  cut-off composite score for the school such students
    39  have committed themselves to attend, pursuant  to  subdivision  five  of
    40  this  section,  provided  that  such students shall also rank in the top
    41  quarter of public school students in the eighth grade citywide based  on
    42  such multiple measures of student achievement, and provided further that
    43  openings  shall  be  reserved for such students at each specialized high
    44  school as set forth in subdivision seven of this section;
    45    (b) students in the city of New York who take a competitive, objective
    46  and scholastic achievement examination in the eighth grade and achieve a
    47  score above or at the cut-off score for the openings that remain in  the
    48  school for which such students have taken the examination; and
    49    (c) students in the city of New York who take a competitive, objective
    50  and  scholastic examination in the ninth grade and achieve a score above
    51  or at the cut-off score for the openings that remain in the  school  for
    52  which such students have taken the examination.
    53    3.  For the admissions process conducted during the two thousand twen-
    54  ty--two thousand twenty-one school year to determine admissions  to  the
    55  specialized  high  schools for the two thousand twenty-one--two thousand
    56  twenty-two school year, students who meet the criteria set forth in this

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     1  subdivision shall be offered admission to the specialized  high  schools
     2  in the following order:
     3    (a)  students attending public schools located in the city of New York
     4  who are in the top five percent of their eighth grade class,  as  calcu-
     5  lated  based  on  multiple  measures  of student achievement pursuant to
     6  subdivision five of this section, and  who  achieve  a  composite  score
     7  above  or  at  the  cut-off composite score for the school such students
     8  have committed themselves to attend pursuant to subdivision five of this
     9  section, provided that such students shall also rank in the top  quarter
    10  of  public  school  students  in the eighth grade citywide based on such
    11  multiple measures of student  achievement,  and  provided  further  that
    12  openings  shall  be  reserved for such students at each specialized high
    13  school as set forth in subdivision seven of this section;
    14    (b) students in the city of New York who take a competitive, objective
    15  and scholastic achievement examination in the eighth grade and achieve a
    16  score above or at the cut-off score for the openings that remain in  the
    17  school for which such students have taken the examination; and
    18    (c) students in the city of New York who take a competitive, objective
    19  and  scholastic examination in the ninth grade and achieve a score above
    20  or at the cut-off score for the openings that remain in the  school  for
    21  which such students have taken the examination.
    22    4.  For the admissions process conducted during the two thousand twen-
    23  ty-one--two thousand twenty-two school year and subsequent school  years
    24  to  determine  admissions  to  the  specialized high schools for the two
    25  thousand twenty-two--two thousand twenty-three school  year  and  subse-
    26  quent  school  years,  students  who meet the criteria set forth in this
    27  subdivision shall be offered admission to the specialized  high  schools
    28  in the following order:
    29    (a)  students attending public schools located in the city of New York
    30  who are in the top five to seven percent of their  eighth  grade  class,
    31  such  percentage to be determined to allow openings to remain for admis-
    32  sion pursuant to paragraph (b) of this  subdivision  and  as  calculated
    33  based  on  multiple  measures  of student achievement, determined as set
    34  forth in subdivision five of this section, and who achieve  a  composite
    35  score  above  or  at  the  cut-off  composite  score for the school such
    36  students have committed themselves to attend, determined as set forth in
    37  subdivision five of this section, provided that such students shall also
    38  rank in the top quarter of public school students in  the  eighth  grade
    39  citywide  based  on  such  multiple measures of student achievement, and
    40  provided further that openings shall be reserved for  such  students  at
    41  each  specialized  high school as set forth in subdivision seven of this
    42  section; and
    43    (b) students in the city of New York who have a  minimum  grade  point
    44  average  of  3.7,  provided  such students shall be admitted by a random
    45  selection process for the openings that remain in each school.
    46    5. The chancellor shall determine the  multiple  measures  of  student
    47  achievement  as  referenced in this section, and the weight of each such
    48  measure, provided that  such  measures  shall  include  academic  course
    49  grades  and standardized test scores. A description of such measures and
    50  the weight accorded to each shall be made publicly available,  including
    51  on  the  website of the city school district. A student who is evaluated
    52  based on such measures for the purposes of  this  subdivision  shall  be
    53  assigned  a  composite  score based on such weighted measures. Offers of
    54  admission to the specialized high schools pursuant to paragraphs (a)  of
    55  subdivisions  two  through  four  of this section shall be determined by
    56  arranging the composite scores of all students  who  are  assigned  such

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     1  scores and who then commit themselves to attend a particular specialized
     2  high school in descending order from the highest score and counting down
     3  to  the  cut-off  composite score, which shall be the composite score of
     4  the last student who receives an offer of admission to such school based
     5  on  the  number  of  openings  available in such school pursuant to such
     6  paragraph.
     7    6. Offers of admission to the specialized  high  schools  pursuant  to
     8  paragraphs  (b)  and  (c)  of subdivisions two and three of this section
     9  shall be determined by arranging the scores of all  the  candidates  who
    10  took  the competitive, objective and scholastic examination and who then
    11  commit themselves to attend a  particular  specialized  high  school  in
    12  descending order from the highest score and counting down to the cut-off
    13  score,  which  shall  be the score of the last candidate who receives an
    14  offer of admission to such school based on the number of openings avail-
    15  able in such school.
    16    7. The number of openings reserved at each specialized high school for
    17  students who meet the criteria set forth in paragraphs (a)  of  subdivi-
    18  sions  two through four of this section shall be determined by multiply-
    19  ing: (a) the total number of ninth  grade  available  openings  at  such
    20  school; by (b) the number of students who meet the criteria set forth in
    21  paragraphs  (a) of subdivisions two through four of this section divided
    22  by the aggregate number of ninth grade available  openings  in  all  the
    23  specialized high schools.
    24    8.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  to the contrary, admission to the
    25  Fiorello H.  LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and  Performing  Arts,
    26  and  other  schools  of  the  arts  that  may be established pursuant to
    27  section twenty-five hundred ninety-h of this article,  shall  be  deter-
    28  mined by a student's demonstrated abilities in music or the arts as well
    29  as such student's scholastic achievement.
    30    §  4.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    31  the amendments to paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of  section  2590-h  of
    32  the  education  law  made by section one of this act shall be subject to
    33  the expiration and reversion of such section pursuant to subdivision  12
    34  of  section  17 of chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, as amended when upon
    35  such date the provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.
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