Bill Text: NY A02283 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that the New York State career development and occupational studies commencement credential shall be considered a diploma and shall be awarded to students with certain disabilities who have attended school for 12 years.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 17-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in education [A02283 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02283-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2283
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. RA, MURRAY, McDONOUGH, GRAF, LUPINACCI, LAWRENCE,
          BUTLER,  GIGLIO,  CROUCH,  PALMESANO,  RAIA, WALTER, PALUMBO -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, THIELE -- read once and referred  to
          the Committee on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to the New York state
          career development and occupational studies commencement credential
          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 4401-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  4401-b.  High  school exiting credentials.   1. Notwithstanding any
     4  provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the New York state
     5  career development  and  occupational  studies  commencement  credential
     6  shall be considered a diploma and be renamed as such and shall be issued
     7  at the same time the student receives his or her local or regents diplo-
     8  ma  or  any  time  after  such  student has attended school for at least
     9  twelve years, excluding kindergarten, or has  received  a  substantially
    10  equivalent  education  elsewhere,  or  at  the end of the school year in
    11  which a student attains the age of twenty-one.
    12    2. A school district that awards the New York state career development
    13  and occupational  studies  commencement  diploma  to  more  than  twenty
    14  percent  of  the  students  with  disabilities in the cohort, where such
    15  diploma is not a supplement to a local  or  regents  diploma,  shall  be
    16  required  to  use  a portion of its Part B individuals with disabilities
    17  education act grant funds for targeted activities as deemed necessary by
    18  the department to ensure that students with disabilities have  appropri-
    19  ate  access to participate and progress in the general education curric-
    20  ulum necessary to earn a local or regents diploma.
    21    3. The commissioner shall promulgate rules  and  regulations  ensuring
    22  that  all  students  are  provided with the appropriate access to earn a
    23  local or regents diploma, including providing students  with  meaningful
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06721-01-7

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     1  access  to  participate and progress in the general curriculum to assist
     2  in meeting the state's learning standards.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately, and shall be deemed to
     4  have been in full force and effect on and after July 1, 2013.
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