Bill Text: NY S00708 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 708 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Directs the state education commissioner to conduct an audit and report on statewide compliance with state instructional regulations for arts education and to establish a remediation process for schools found to be out of compliance.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-29 - PRINT NUMBER 708A [S00708 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00708-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         708--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. SERRANO, ADDABBO, KRUEGER, PARKER, STAVISKY -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in
          accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to directing the commis-
          sioner of education to  conduct  an  audit  and  report  on  statewide
          compliance with state instructional regulations for arts education and
          to  establish  a  remediation  process  for schools found to be out of
          compliance
          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 817 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  817.  Statewide  audit  of  compliance.   The commissioner shall be
     4  authorized and required to conduct a statewide audit of compliance  with
     5  state education regulations for arts instruction. The board of education
     6  or  trustees  of  all school districts shall comply with requests by the
     7  department for such information deemed relevant by the department.  Such
     8  assessment  shall  be  conducted and reported to the legislature and the
     9  public by June, two thousand seventeen for the two thousand sixteen--two
    10  thousand seventeen school year and every five years thereafter.
    11    § 2. Section 305 of the education law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    12  subdivision 55 to read as follows:
    13    55. He or she shall require the board of education or trustees of each
    14  school  district  that  is  found  to  be  out  of compliance with state
    15  instructional regulations for arts education  to  develop  a  corrective
    16  action  plan  that  describes    steps  to  ensure compliance with state
    17  requirements with a timetable for implementation of steps within  twelve
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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