Bill Text: NY S03987 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires charter schools to enroll children with disabilities and English language learners in comparable numbers to those enrolled in public schools and provides that failure to comply may result in revocation of the charter.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S03987 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03987-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3987
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 4, 2013
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       Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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  requiring  charter
         schools  to  enroll  children  with  disabilities and English language
         learners in comparable numbers to those enrolled in public schools
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  2 of section 2854 of the
    2  education law, as amended by chapter 101 of the laws of 2010, is amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    (a) A charter school shall be nonsectarian in its programs,  admission
    5  policies,  employment  practices, and all other operations and shall not
    6  charge tuition or fees; provided that a charter school may  require  the
    7  payment of fees on the same basis and to the same extent as other public
    8  schools.  A  charter  school shall not discriminate against any student,
    9  employee or any other person on the basis of ethnicity, national origin,
   10  gender, or disability or any other ground that would be unlawful if done
   11  by a school. Admission of students shall not be limited on the basis  of
   12  intellectual  ability,  measures  of  achievement  or aptitude, athletic
   13  ability, disability, race, creed, gender, national origin, religion,  or
   14  ancestry;  provided,  however,  that  nothing  in  this article shall be
   15  construed to prevent the establishment of a single-sex charter school or
   16  a charter school designed to provide expanded learning opportunities for
   17  students at-risk of academic failure or students with  disabilities  and
   18  English  language  learners; and provided, further, that [the] A charter
   19  school [shall demonstrate good faith efforts to  attract  and  retain  a
   20  comparable  or  greater enrollment of] MUST ENROLL THE SAME OR A GREATER
   21  PERCENTAGE OF students with disabilities, English language learners, and
   22  students who are eligible applicants for  the  free  and  reduced  price
   23  lunch  program when compared to the enrollment figures for such students
   24  in the school district in which the charter school is  located.  FAILURE
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07763-01-3
       S. 3987                             2
    1  TO  COMPLY FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS SHALL BE DEEMED GROUNDS FOR REVOCA-
    2  TION OF THE CHARTER. A charter shall not be issued to  any  school  that
    3  would  be  wholly or in part under the control or direction of any reli-
    4  gious  denomination,  or  in  which any denominational tenet or doctrine
    5  would be taught.
    6    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.