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A09979 Summary:

BILL NOA09979
 
SAME ASSAME AS S07738
 
SPONSORRules (Camara)
 
COSPNSRSepulveda, Perry
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S2590-h, Ed L
 
Relates to admission to a special high school in the city school district of New York.
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A09979 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          9979
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 5, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Camara) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
        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;  and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 

          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 high schools
     5  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, Brooklyn Latin School, High School
     9  for Math, Science and Engineering at City College, High School of Ameri-
    10  can Studies at Lehman College, Queens High School for  the  Sciences  at

    11  York  College,  and  Staten  Island  Technical  High  School,  and  such
    12  [further] additional schools which the city  board  may  designate  from
    13  time  to  time.  The city board shall establish procedures and standards
    14  for admission to the special high schools of the  city  district,  which
    15  shall  consist of multiple measures of student merit including the grade
    16  point averages of applicants, school attendance records,  school  admis-
    17  sion  test  scores,  and  state  test  scores;  provided,  however, that
    18  approved school absences shall not be considered as a measure of student
    19  merit for attendance  purposes.  The  city  board  or  chancellor  shall
    20  provide  written  explanation  of the weightings selected, and make such

    21  explanation publicly available, including via the city board's  official
    22  internet  website.  The  chancellor  shall  ensure  that  notice of such
    23  special high schools' entrance examination is widely  and  conspicuously
    24  posted  in  a manner to maximize the number of affected individuals that
    25  receive notice, including  providing  notice  to  affected  parents  and
    26  students.  The special schools shall be [permitted] required to maintain
    27  a discovery program [in accordance with the law in effect  on  the  date
    28  preceding  the effective date of this section; admissions to the special
    29  schools shall be conducted in accordance with the law in effect  on  the
    30  date  preceding the effective date of this section;]. The principal of a
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14478-04-4

        A. 9979                             2
 
     1  special high school may admit a student who has satisfactorily completed
     2  such a program at his or her school, subject to regulations of the  city
     3  board.
     4    § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
     5  law,  as  amended by chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read
     6  as follows:
     7    (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The  special  high  schools
     8  shall include the present schools known as:
     9    The  Bronx  High  School  of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn

    10  Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School  of  Music  and
    11  the Arts in the borough of Manhattan, Brooklyn Latin School, High School
    12  for Math, Science and Engineering at City College, High School of Ameri-
    13  can  Studies  at  Lehman College, Queens High School for the Sciences at
    14  York  College,  and  Staten  Island  Technical  High  School,  and  such
    15  [further]  additional  schools  which  the city board may designate from
    16  time to time. The city board shall establish  procedures  and  standards
    17  for  admission  to  the special high schools of the city district, which
    18  shall consist of multiple measures of student merit including the  grade
    19  point  averages  of applicants, school attendance records, school admis-

    20  sion test  scores,  and  state  test  scores;  provided,  however,  that
    21  approved school absences shall not be considered as a measure of student
    22  merit  for  attendance  purposes.  The  city  board  or chancellor shall
    23  provide written explanation of the weightings selected,  and  make  such
    24  explanation  publicly available, including via the city board's official
    25  internet website. The  chancellor  shall  ensure  that  notice  of  such
    26  special  high  schools' entrance examination is widely and conspicuously
    27  posted in a manner to maximize the number of affected  individuals  that
    28  receive  notice,  including  providing  notice  to  affected parents and
    29  students. The special schools shall be [permitted] required to  maintain

    30  a  discovery  program  [in accordance with the law in effect on the date
    31  preceding the effective date of this section; admissions to the  special
    32  schools  shall  be conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the
    33  date preceding the effective date of this section]. The principal  of  a
    34  special high school may admit a student who has satisfactorily completed
    35  such  a program at his or her school, subject to regulations of the city
    36  board;
    37    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    38  the  date  on  which it shall have become a law, and shall expire and be
    39  deemed repealed 5 years after such effective  date;  provided  that  the
    40  amendments  to  paragraph  (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the

    41  education law, made by sections one and two of this act, shall apply  to
    42  the Stuyvesant high school, the Bronx high school of science, the Brook-
    43  lyn  technical high school, the Staten Island technical high school, the
    44  Queens high school for the sciences at York college, the high school for
    45  mathematics, science and engineering at city college,  the  high  school
    46  for  American  studies at Lehman college, the Brooklyn Latin school, and
    47  all additional schools that the board of education of  the  city  school
    48  district of the city of New York designates as special high schools, not
    49  including  the  Fiorello H. LaGuardia high school of music and the arts;
    50  provided, further, that the amendments to paragraph (b) of subdivision 1
    51  of section 2590-h of the education law made by section one of  this  act
    52  shall  be subject to the expiration and reversion of such section pursu-

    53  ant to subdivision 12 of section 17 of chapter 345 of the laws of  2009,
    54  as  amended,  when  upon such date the provisions of section two of this
    55  act shall take effect.
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