Relates to SUNY admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs; removes the requirement for a minimum score on the graduate record examination or similar examination.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6600--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 10, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to SUNY admission
requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader
programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 210-a of the education law, as amended by chapter
2 454 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 210-a. Admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educa-
4 tional leader programs. Each institution registered by the department
5 with graduate-level teacher and leader education programs shall adopt
6 rigorous selection criteria geared to predicting a candidate's academic
7 success in its program, including but not limited to, [a minimum score
8 on the graduate record examination or a substantially equivalent admis-
9 sion examination, as determined by the institution, and] achievement of
10 a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher in the candidate's
11 undergraduate program[; provided, however, such graduate record examina-
12 tion or substantially equivalent admission examination requirement shall
13 in no case apply to certified teachers or school administrators who
14 already hold a graduate degree]. Each program may exempt no more than
15 fifteen percent of any incoming class of students from such selection
16 criteria set forth in this section based on a student's demonstration of
17 potential to positively contribute to the teaching profession or other
18 extenuating circumstances pursuant to the regulations of the commission-
19 er. A program shall report to the department the number of students
20 admitted pursuant to such exemption and the selection criteria used for
21 such exemptions.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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