Bill Text: NY A00556 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires each school district to provide interventions and special curricula for children with dyslexia or other phonological learning differences or disabilities.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A00556 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00556-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           556

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL, THIELE, BARRON, SIMON, SAYEGH, DeSTEFA-
          NO, J. M. GIGLIO, WILLIAMS,  SEAWRIGHT,  COLTON,  LUPARDO,  RODRIGUEZ,
          DICKENS,  EPSTEIN,  DAVILA, McMAHON, TAYLOR, REYES, JEAN-PIERRE, GRIF-
          FIN, ASHBY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, DE LA ROSA,  ENGLE-
          BRIGHT, FRONTUS, HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to curricula for students
          identified  as  dyslexic  or as having any other phonological learning
          difference or disability

          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 4407-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  4407-a. Special provisions relating to instruction of children with
     4  dyslexia or other phonological differences or disabilities. 1. The board
     5  of education or trustees of each school district  shall  provide  inter-
     6  vention  services  for  any  student who is identified as dyslexic or as
     7  having any other phonological learning difference  or  disability.  Such
     8  intervention  services shall include a multi-sensory sequential phonics-
     9  based curriculum, which shall be taught in addition to any other special
    10  instruction.
    11    2. Curricula established pursuant to subdivision one of  this  section
    12  shall:
    13    a. include explicit and direct instruction that is systematic, sequen-
    14  tial, cumulative, and follows a logical plan of presenting the alphabet-
    15  ic  principle  that  targets  the specific needs of each student without
    16  presuming any prior skills or knowledge;
    17    b. include meaning-based instruction directed at  purposeful  reading,
    18  with emphasis on student comprehension; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02200-01-1
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     1    c.  be  structured  to provide individual instruction tailored to each
     2  student, or to a small group setting of ten students or less.
     3    3.  The  board  of  education  or trustees shall inform each student's
     4  parent or person in parental relation of the intervention services being
     5  implemented under this section.
     6    4. Each school district shall provide the  department  and  regents  a
     7  detailed  report on its curriculum and intervention services established
     8  pursuant to this section by the thirty-first day of July annually.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.