Bill Text: NY A09791 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to instruction on the Garifuna people.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-08 - referred to education [A09791 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09791-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9791
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 8, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEPULVEDA  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  instruction  on  the
          Garifuna people
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 801 of the  education  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter 574 of the laws of 1997, are amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. In order to promote a spirit of patriotic  and  civic  service  and
     5  obligation  and  to foster in the children of the state moral and intel-
     6  lectual qualities which are essential in preparing  to  meet  the  obli-
     7  gations of citizenship in peace or in war, the regents of The University
     8  of  the  State  of  New  York  shall prescribe courses of instruction in
     9  patriotism, citizenship, and human rights issues, with particular atten-
    10  tion to the study of the inhumanity of genocide, slavery (including  the
    11  freedom  trail  and underground railroad), the Holocaust, the history of
    12  the Garifuna people, and the mass starvation in  Ireland  from  1845  to
    13  1850, to be maintained and followed in all the schools of the state. The
    14  boards  of  education  and  trustees  of  the  several cities and school
    15  districts of the state shall require instruction to  be  given  in  such
    16  courses,  by  the  teachers  employed in the schools therein. All pupils
    17  attending such schools, over the age of eight years, shall  attend  upon
    18  such instruction.
    19    Similar  courses  of instruction shall be prescribed and maintained in
    20  private schools in the state, and all pupils in such schools over  eight
    21  years  of age shall attend upon such courses. If such courses are not so
    22  established and maintained in a private school, attendance upon instruc-
    23  tion in such school shall not  be  deemed  substantially  equivalent  to
    24  instruction  given  to  pupils  of like age in the public schools of the
    25  city or district in which such pupils reside.
    26    3. The regents shall determine the subjects to  be  included  in  such
    27  courses  of  instruction  in  patriotism,  citizenship, and human rights
    28  issues, with particular attention to the  study  of  the  inhumanity  of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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