Bill Text: NY A10539 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates a pre-specialized high schools admissions test and preparation program for all sixth grade students in New York city.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-04 - referred to education [A10539 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A10539-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10539 IN ASSEMBLY May 4, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the creation of a pre-specialized high schools admissions test and preparation program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2590-h of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 55 to read as follows: 3 55. Establish, in conjunction with the appropriate New York city 4 department of education officials, a test preparation program for 5 students in the sixth grade culminating in a pre-specialized high 6 schools admissions test to be administered in May or June of each year. 7 Such test preparation and the pre-specialized high schools admissions 8 test shall be available to all sixth grade students free of charge 9 during the regular operating hours of the school day. Parents may 10 choose for their student to not be a part of the test preparation 11 program. Upon completion of the program, each student, their parents, 12 and their school shall receive a gap analysis. Schools shall use each 13 student's gap analysis to tailor the student's instruction to meet the 14 needs of the student including, but not limited to, the use of the 15 specialized high schools admissions test intensive or any other New York 16 city department of education program available. 17 § 2. Section 2590-h of the education law is amended by adding a new 18 subdivision 39 to read as follows: 19 39. Establish, in conjunction with the appropriate New York city 20 department of education officials, a test preparation program for 21 students in the sixth grade culminating in a pre-specialized high 22 schools admissions test to be administered in May or June of each year. 23 Such test preparation and the pre-specialized high schools admissions 24 test shall be available to all sixth grade students free of charge 25 during the regular operating hours of the school day. Parents may 26 choose for their student to not be a part of the test preparation 27 program. Upon completion of the program, each student, their parents, 28 and their school shall receive a gap analysis. Schools shall use each EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15438-02-8A. 10539 2 1 student's gap analysis to tailor the student's instruction to meet the 2 needs of the student including, but not limited to, the use of the 3 specialized high schools admissions test intensive or any other New York 4 city department of education program available. 5 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 6 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided that the amend- 7 ments to section 2590-h of the education law, made by section one of 8 this act, shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such 9 section, pursuant to subdivision 12 of section 17 of chapter 345 of the 10 laws of 2009, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section 11 two of this act shall take effect. Effective immediately, the addition, 12 amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the 13 implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be 14 made and completed on or before such effective date.
