STATE OF NEW YORK
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5777
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 15, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting the parents
of pupils attending a persistently lowest-achieving school to choose
an education intervention model
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3613
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3613. Persistently lowest-achieving schools; intervention models. 1.
4 For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall mean: a.
5 "Persistently lowest-achieving (PLA) schools", the bottom five percent
6 of title one schools in improvement, corrective action or restructuring
7 status that have the lowest combined performance on the state's English
8 language arts and mathematics tests and that have failed to demonstrate
9 progress on these assessments.
10 b. "Intervention models", federal education intervention models which
11 include the turnaround model, restart model, transformation model or
12 closure model. In order to be eligible for federal education improve-
13 ment grants, the United States department of education requires a PLA
14 school to either: (1) redesign or replace such school (turnaround); (2)
15 convert such school to a charter school or contract with an educational
16 partnership organization to operate such school (restart); (3) transform
17 such school (transformation); or (4) close such school and transfer
18 students to higher performing schools in the district (closure).
19 2. Any school identified by the commissioner as persistently lowest-
20 achieving and that is required to implement one of four intervention
21 models, in accordance with eligibility requirements established for
22 federal education improvement grants, shall permit the parents or legal
23 guardians of pupils attending such PLA school to choose which inter-
24 vention model shall be implemented if at least fifty-five percent of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 parents or legal guardians of pupils attending such school have voted
2 and signed a petition identifying one intervention model. Provided,
3 however, for the purposes of this section eligible schools may choose to
4 implement either the turnaround model, restart model or transformation
5 model as identified in paragraph b of subdivision one of this section.
6 3. The provisions of this section shall be applicable to cities having
7 a population of more than two hundred twenty-five thousand and less than
8 three hundred thousand.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.