Bill Text: NY A00838 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes schools dedicated to teaching dyslexic students in certain school districts.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A00838 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00838-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 838 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL, BARRON, THIELE, SAYEGH, DeSTEFANO, J. M. GIGLIO, WILLIAMS, COLTON, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, RODRIGUEZ, LUPARDO, DICKENS, EPSTEIN, TAYLOR, DAVILA, McMAHON, REYES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, ENGLEBRIGHT, FRONTUS, HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing schools dedicated to teaching dyslexic students in certain school districts 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 2 1527-a to read as follows: 3 § 1527-a. School for the dyslexic. The board of education or trustees 4 of each community school district located within a city with a popu- 5 lation of one million or more shall establish at least one school for 6 the teaching of students with dyslexia and other phonemic language based 7 learning differences. Each such school shall include the utilization of 8 multi-sensory sequential phonics techniques in their elementary and 9 secondary education curriculum. Teachers and instructors at such schools 10 shall have a minimum of twenty hours of training in the area of multi- 11 sensory sequential phonics techniques. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 13 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05350-01-1
