Bill Text: NY A00514 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to expanding access to advanced courses to improve educational equity beginning with notification to parents and students on the benefits and opportunities offered as well as automatic enrollment opportunities.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-07 - signed chap.355 [A00514 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00514-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         514--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, JEAN-PIERRE, JACKSON, CRUZ, DICK-
          ENS, OTIS, SIMON, SAYEGH, JACOBSON, MAGNARELLI, SHIMSKY, CUNNINGHAM --
          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  expanding  access  to
          advanced courses to improve educational equity

          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 817 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 817. Expanding access to advanced  courses  to  improve  educational
     4  equity.  1.  Each  school  district  and  charter  school shall annually
     5  provide notification to parents and students of  the  benefits  and  the
     6  opportunities  within the district or charter school of participating in
     7  advanced courses.
     8    2. Such notification shall include:
     9    a. the benefits of participating in advanced courses;
    10    b. a description  of  the  advanced  courses  offered  by  the  school
    11  district  or charter school in middle and high school and how to prepare
    12  for and enroll in them;
    13    c. a description of the advanced courses to be offered by  the  school
    14  district or charter school in the following school year; and
    15    d.  a  description of the academic and non-academic support the school
    16  district or charter school provides to help students succeed in advanced
    17  courses, as well as any financial  assistance  available  to  reduce  or
    18  eliminate  any  costs associated with participation in advanced courses,
    19  including but not limited to related fees, supplies, and assessments.
    20    3. Notification shall be provided electronically or  by  mail  and  be
    21  posted on the website of the school district or charter school.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00662-02-3