Bill Text: NY S01038 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires each school district to provide interventions and special curricula for children with dyslexia or other phonological learning differences or disabilities.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO DISABILITIES [S01038 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01038-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1038

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. JACKSON, BRESLIN, CLEARE, SKOUFIS -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Disabilities

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to curricula for students
          identified  as  dyslexic  or as having any other phonological learning
          difference or disability

          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 4407-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  4407-a. Special provisions relating to instruction of children with
     4  dyslexia or other phonological differences or disabilities. 1. The board
     5  of education or trustees of each school district  shall  provide  inter-
     6  vention  services  for  any  student who is identified as dyslexic or as
     7  having any other phonological learning difference  or  disability.  Such
     8  intervention  services shall include a multi-sensory sequential phonics-
     9  based curriculum, which shall be taught in addition to any other special
    10  instruction.
    11    2. Curricula established pursuant to subdivision one of  this  section
    12  shall:
    13    a. include explicit and direct instruction that is systematic, sequen-
    14  tial, cumulative, and follows a logical plan of presenting the alphabet-
    15  ic  principle  that  targets  the specific needs of each student without
    16  presuming any prior skills or knowledge;
    17    b. include meaning-based instruction directed at  purposeful  reading,
    18  with emphasis on student comprehension; and
    19    c.  be  structured  to provide individual instruction tailored to each
    20  student, or to a small group setting of ten students or less.
    21    3. The board of education or  trustees  shall  inform  each  student's
    22  parent or person in parental relation of the intervention services being
    23  implemented under this section.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00505-01-3
        S. 1038                             2

     1    4.  Each  school  district  shall provide the department and regents a
     2  detailed report on its curriculum and intervention services  established
     3  pursuant to this section by the thirty-first day of July annually.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.