Bill Text: NY A08025 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8025 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires that academic credit toward a high school diploma be given for practical experience gained outside of school during high school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-23 - print number 8025a [A08025 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08025-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         8025--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 25, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN, VANEL, DICKENS, PHEFFER AMATO -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to providing academic
          credit toward a high school diploma for practical experience
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 57 to read as follows:
     3    57.  Notwithstanding  any  rule  of  the  regents to the contrary, the
     4  commissioner shall promulgate rules  providing  academic  credit,  which
     5  shall  be utilized in the awarding of all types of high school diplomas,
     6  for practical experience received by  students  while  in  high  school.
     7  Subject  to  the  rules of the commissioner, practical experience may be
     8  deemed to satisfy requirements for successful completion of an  academic
     9  course  of  instruction,  related to such experience, which is necessary
    10  for the awarding of a high school diploma.   Practical experience  shall
    11  include  internships  and other learning experiences which occur outside
    12  of school, and which provide experience and  knowledge  in  an  academic
    13  discipline or a trade.
    14    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
    15  succeeding 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.
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