Bill Text: NY S02891 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the applicable school years for designation of persistently failing schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S02891 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02891-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2891
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 18, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  persistently  failing
          schools
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1  of  section  211-f  of  the
     2  education  law, as added by section 1 of subpart H of part EE of chapter
     3  56 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) Persistently failing  schools.  Based  upon  measures  of  student
     5  achievement and outcomes and a methodology prescribed in the regulations
     6  of  the  commissioner,  the commissioner shall designate as persistently
     7  failing each of the schools that have been identified under the  state's
     8  accountability system to be among the lowest achieving public schools in
     9  the state for ten consecutive school years, based upon identification of
    10  the school by the commissioner as: a "priority school" for each applica-
    11  ble year from the two thousand twelve--two thousand thirteen school year
    12  to the current school year, or identified as a "priority school" in each
    13  applicable  year  of such period except one year in which the school was
    14  not identified because of an approved closure plan that was  not  imple-
    15  mented;  and  as  a "School Requiring Academic Progress Year 5", "School
    16  Requiring Academic Progress Year 6", "School Requiring Academic Progress
    17  Year 7" and/or a "School in Restructuring," for  [each  applicable  year
    18  from]  the two thousand six--two thousand seven school year [to] and the
    19  two thousand eleven--two thousand twelve school year.  This  designation
    20  shall  not  include  schools  within  a  special  act school district as
    21  defined in subdivision eight of section four thousand one of this  chap-
    22  ter or schools chartered pursuant to article fifty-six of this chapter.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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