Bill Text: NY A03142 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that school districts establish a gifted and talented program for gifted and twice-exceptional pupils; establishes guidelines as to the development of such programs and the identification of gifted and twice-exceptional pupils.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A03142 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03142-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 3812                                                  A. 3142
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, AUBRY, JAFFEE, TITONE --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  MAGNARELLI, McDONOUGH -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  school
          districts  to  establish  programs  for  gifted  and twice-exceptional
          pupils
          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 4454
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 4454. Gifted and talented program.  1. Each school district in  this
     4  state  shall  establish  a district-wide gifted and talented program for
     5  pupils who meet the criteria established in subdivision one  of  section
     6  forty-four  hundred  fifty-two of this article, and shall be responsible
     7  for ensuring that appropriate instructional adaptations  including,  but
     8  not  limited  to  gifted  IEPs (GIEPs) developed by certified gifted and
     9  talented learning specialists, differentiated instruction, contact time,
    10  social and emotional support,  academic  guidance  and  counseling,  and
    11  content-based acceleration, are designed and delivered for such pupils.
    12    2.  Each  school  district  shall  establish an ongoing identification
    13  process for gifted pupils, including twice-exceptional pupils, initiated
    14  in pre-kindergarten and reviewed  annually  through  grade  twelve.  The
    15  school district shall ensure that the identification methodology employs
    16  multifaceted  criteria  consistent  with  recommended  practices  in the
    17  field,  and  is  developmentally  appropriate,  non-discriminatory,  and
    18  related to the programs and services offered.
    19    3.  The  department shall provide each school district with curriculum
    20  frameworks which shall suggest a variety of  activities  and  strategies
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 3812                             2                            A. 3142
     1  that  may  assist  in  the development of local curricula for gifted and
     2  twice-exceptional pupils.   Such frameworks  shall  address  adaptations
     3  that  are  educationally  challenging  for  gifted and twice-exceptional
     4  pupils in core subject areas as identified by the department.
     5    4.  In  addition,  the  school  boards  of  each school district shall
     6  provide professional development and program evaluation,  differentiated
     7  instruction,  contact time, social and emotional support, academic guid-
     8  ance and counseling, and content-based acceleration, and  encourage  the
     9  active  involvement  of  representatives  from  the community, business,
    10  industry, labor, and higher education in the development of  the  gifted
    11  and talented program.
    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;  provided,  however,  that
    14  the  commissioner of education is authorized to promulgate any rules and
    15  regulations necessary for the effective implementation of this act on or
    16  before such date.