Bill Text: NY S02106 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2106 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to improving educational outcomes for homeless school age children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-14 - referred to education [S02106 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02106-Amended.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2106--C
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --  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 committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to improving  educational
          outcomes for homeless school age children
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 3209  of  the  education  law  is
     2  renumbered  subdivision  12 and two new subdivisions 10 and 11 are added
     3  to read as follows:
     4    10. a. By January thirty-first, two thousand twenty, and  every  even-
     5  numbered  year thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the governor
     6  and the legislature a report including, but not limited to:
     7    (1) the number of identified homeless school age children enrolled  in
     8  public schools;
     9    (2)  the  academic  performance  and  educational outcomes of homeless
    10  school age children, including but not limited to the following:
    11    (i) student scores on the statewide administered academic assessments;
    12    (ii) English language proficiency;
    13    (iii) dropout rates;
    14    (iv) four-year adjusted graduation rate;
    15    (v) five-year adjusted graduation rate;
    16    (vi) absenteeism rates;
    17    (vii) truancy rates, if available; and
    18    (viii) suspension and expulsion data.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04805-06-8

        S. 2106--C                          2
     1    b. The data reported pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision  must
     2  include  state  and district-level information and must be disaggregated
     3  by at least the following  subgroups  of  school  age  children:  white,
     4  black,   Hispanic,   American   Indian/Alaskan  Native,  Asian,  Pacific
     5  Islander/Hawaiian  Native,  low income, transitional bilingual, migrant,
     6  special education, and gender.
     7    11. The commissioner, in collaboration  with  experts  from  community
     8  organizations  on  homelessness  and  homeless  education  policy, shall
     9  develop a homeless education policy on how to  better  provide  services
    10  and support to homeless school age children and on how to utilize feder-
    11  al title I funding.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.