Bill Text: NY A01262 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the regents to prescribe courses of instruction in state and local government in elementary and middle schools in the state; boards of education and trustees of the several cities and school districts of the state shall require instruction to be given in such courses by the teachers; requires similar instruction in private schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A01262 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01262-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1262
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the instruc-
          tion of state and local government in elementary and middle schools in
          the state
          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 802-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 802-b. Courses of instruction in state and local government.  1. The
     4  regents shall prescribe  courses  of  instruction  in  state  and  local
     5  government  to  be  maintained and followed in all of the elementary and
     6  middle schools of the state. The boards of education and trustees of the
     7  several cities and school districts of the state shall require  instruc-
     8  tion  to  be  given  in  such  courses,  by the teachers employed in the
     9  schools therein. All pupils attending such schools,  in  elementary  and
    10  middle school grades, shall attend upon such instruction.
    11    2.  Similar  courses of instruction shall be prescribed and maintained
    12  in private schools in the state, and  all  pupils  in  such  schools  in
    13  grades or classes corresponding to the instruction in the elementary and
    14  middle school grades of the public schools shall attend upon such cours-
    15  es.  If  such courses are not so established and maintained in a private
    16  school, attendance upon instruction in such school shall not  be  deemed
    17  substantially  equivalent  to  instruction given to pupils in the public
    18  schools of the city or district in which such pupils reside.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect twenty-four months after it shall have
    20  become a law; provided, however, that any rules or regulations necessary
    21  for the timely implementation of this act on its effective date shall be
    22  promulgated on or before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04949-01-7