Bill Text: NY A10089 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that the number of seats available in each borough for specialized high schools in the city of New York shall be proportionate to the number of public school students in each borough.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-12 - referred to education [A10089 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A10089-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10089
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 12, 2014
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       Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Nolan) --
         read once and referred to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  requiring  that  the
         number of seats available in each borough for specialized high schools
         in the city of New York shall be proportionate to the number of public
         school students in each borough
         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; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE
    5  SEATS AVAILABLE FOR SPECIALIZED HIGH SCHOOLS SHALL BE AVAILABLE IN  EACH
    6  BOROUGH  IN  NUMBERS  PROPORTIONATE  TO  THE POPULATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL
    7  STUDENTS IN EACH BOROUGH.  The special high schools  shall  include  the
    8  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, and such further schools which the
   12  city board may designate from time to time. The special schools shall be
   13  permitted  to maintain a discovery program in accordance with the law in
   14  effect on the date preceding the effective date of this section;  admis-
   15  sions  to  the special schools shall be conducted in accordance with the
   16  law in effect on the date preceding the effective date of this section;
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
   18  ments  to paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the educa-
   19  tion law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration
   20  and reversion of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15569-01-4