Bill Text: NY A09253 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows parents, legal guardians or school districts to opt children with an individualized education program out of the "common core standards" and certain testing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-28 - print number 9253a [A09253 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09253-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        9253--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 3, 2014
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       Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- 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 allowing school
         districts to opt children with an individualized education program out
         of the "common core standards" and certain testing
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  4402 of the education law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    3    8. A. ANY PARENT, LEGAL GUARDIAN OR SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY ELECT TO OPT A
    4  CHILD WITH AN ESTABLISHED INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM (IEP) OUT  OF
    5  ANY  STANDARDIZED  TEST, INCLUDING THE "COMMON CORE STANDARDS", OR THOSE
    6  TESTS ADMINISTERED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED THREE OF THE LAWS  OF
    7  TWO THOUSAND TEN. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL BE GUIDED IN ITS DECISION TO
    8  EXEMPT  SUCH CHILD FROM SUCH TESTS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE WHICH
    9  ESTABLISHED THE INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM.
   10    B. THE DISTRICT, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE MEMBERS OF  THE  COMMITTEE
   11  WHO  ESTABLISHED  THE INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM OF A CHILD WHO IS
   12  OPTED-OUT OF A TEST SHALL NOTE IN THE RECORDS OF SUCH CHILD THE  REASONS
   13  WHY THE CHILD WAS EXEMPTED FROM TAKING SUCH TEST AND SHALL ALSO IDENTIFY
   14  HOW  THE  CHILD  SHALL  BE TAUGHT, SUCH AS USING EXISTING NEW YORK STATE
   15  STANDARDS AND  METHODOLOGIES,  IN  A  MANNER  THAT  IS  APPROPRIATE  AND
   16  CONSISTENT WITH THE CHILD'S INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM.
   17    S 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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