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A04204 Summary:

BILL NOA04204A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S01827-A
 
SPONSORCamara (MS)
 
COSPNSRAubry, Crespo, Ortiz, Robinson, Roberts, Rodriguez, Perry, Weprin, Mosley, Heastie
 
MLTSPNSRSchimel
 
Amd SS2590-g & 2590-h, Ed L
 
Authorizes the board of education of the city school district of the city of New York to establish standards for admission to special high schools.
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A04204 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         4204--A
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 1, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. CAMARA, AUBRY, ESPINAL, CRESPO, ORTIZ, ROBINSON,
          ROBERTS, RODRIGUEZ, PERRY, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.
          BOYLAND,  GIBSON,  HEASTIE,  SCHIMEL  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to admission to a special
          high school in the city school district of 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. 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,
    12  the city board shall establish procedures and standards for admission to
    13  the special high schools of the city district, which  shall  consist  of
    14  multiple measures of student merit including the grade point averages of
    15  applicants  and  such other factors as the city board shall determine to
    16  be necessary.
    17    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as added by
    18  chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
    19    4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five  hundred  ninety-i
    20  of  this article, maintain such jurisdiction over policies governing the
    21  special, academic, vocational and other high schools authorized by  this

    22  article  [before  the  effective date of this section] as the respective
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05359-02-3

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     1  community boards maintain over the schools  within  their  jurisdiction,
     2  which  shall  not  be  construed  to require or authorize the day-to-day
     3  supervision or the administration of the  operations  of  such  schools.
     4  Provided,  further, the city board shall establish procedures and stand-
     5  ards for admission to the special high schools  of  the  city  district,
     6  which  shall consist of multiple measures of student merit including the

     7  grade point averages of applicants and such other factors  as  the  city
     8  board shall determine to be necessary.
     9    § 3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
    10  law,  as  amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read
    11  as follows:
    12    (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The  special  high  schools
    13  shall include the present schools known as:
    14    The  Bronx  High  School  of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn
    15  Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School  of  Music  and
    16  the  Arts  in  the  borough  of Manhattan, and such [further] additional
    17  schools which the city board  may  designate  from  time  to  time.  The
    18  special  schools  shall  be permitted to maintain a discovery program in

    19  accordance with the law in effect on the date  preceding  the  effective
    20  date  of  this  section[;  admissions  to  the  special schools shall be
    21  conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
    22  effective date of this section];
    23    § 4. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
    24  law, as amended by chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended  to  read
    25  as follows:
    26    (b)  all  specialized  [senior] high schools. The special high schools
    27  shall include the present schools known as:
    28    The Bronx High School of Science,  Stuyvesant  High  School,  Brooklyn
    29  Technical  High  School,  Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and
    30  the Arts in the borough of  Manhattan,  and  such  [further]  additional

    31  schools  which  the  city  board  may  designate  from time to time. The
    32  special schools shall be permitted to maintain a  discovery  program  in
    33  accordance  with  the  law in effect on the date preceding the effective
    34  date of this section[;  admissions  to  the  special  schools  shall  be
    35  conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
    36  effective date of this section];
    37    §  5. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    38  the date on which it shall have become a law; provided that  the  amend-
    39  ments  to  subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, made by
    40  sections one and two of this act, shall apply  to  the  Stuyvesant  high
    41  school,  the  Bronx  high school of science, the Brooklyn technical high
    42  school, the Staten Island technical high school, the Queens high  school

    43  for  the  sciences  at  York  college,  the high school for mathematics,
    44  science and engineering at City college, the high  school  for  American
    45  studies at Lehman college, the Brooklyn Latin school, and all additional
    46  schools  that  the board of education of the city school district of the
    47  city of New York designates as special high schools, not  including  the
    48  Fiorello  H.  LaGuardia  high  school  of  music and the arts; provided,
    49  further, that the amendments to subdivision  4  of  section  2590-g  and
    50  paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education law
    51  made by sections one and three of this act shall be subject to the expi-
    52  ration and reversion of such sections pursuant to section 34 of  chapter
    53  91  of  the laws of 2002, as amended and subdivision 12 of section 17 of
    54  chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, as amended respectively when upon  such

    55  date  the  provisions  of  sections  two and four of this act shall take
    56  effect.
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