Bill Text: NY A07510 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to admission to the specialized high schools in the city of New York; removes the discovery program admission process.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to education [A07510 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07510-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7510

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BENEDETTO, BARRON, BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to admission to the
          specialized high schools in the city of New York

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the
     2  education law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The  [special]  specialized
     5  high  schools  shall include the [present] schools known as[:] The Bronx
     6  High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Technical  High
     7  School,  Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music [and the Arts in the
     8  borough of Manhattan] & Art and  Performing  Arts,  and  such  [further]
     9  additional schools [which the city board may designate] as may be desig-
    10  nated by the chancellor from time to time[. The special schools shall be
    11  permitted  to maintain a discovery program in accordance with the law in
    12  effect on the date preceding the effective date of this section;  admis-
    13  sions  to  the special schools shall be conducted in accordance with the
    14  law in effect on the date preceding the effective date of this section];
    15    § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
    16  law, as amended by chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended  to  read
    17  as follows:
    18    (b)  all  specialized [senior] high schools. The [special] specialized
    19  high schools shall include the [present] schools known as[:]  The  Bronx
    20  High  School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Technical High
    21  School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music [and the Arts in  the
    22  borough  of  Manhattan]  &  Art  and Performing Arts, and such [further]
    23  additional schools [which the city board may designate] as may be desig-
    24  nated by the chancellor from time to time[. The special schools shall be
    25  permitted to maintain a discovery program in accordance with the law  in

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  effect  on the date preceding the effective date of this section; admis-
     2  sions to the special schools shall be conducted in accordance  with  the
     3  law in effect on the date preceding the effective date of this section];
     4    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect January 1, 2023, provided that the
     5  amendments to paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section  2590-h  of  the
     6  education  law  made  by section one of this act shall be subject to the
     7  expiration and reversion of such section pursuant to subdivision  12  of
     8  section  17  of  chapter  345 of the laws of 2009, as amended, when upon
     9  such date the provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.