Bill Text: NY S03987 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3987 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 4, 2013 ___________ 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.