Bill Text: NY S04585 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4585 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires that, in every school district in cities having a population of 1,000,000 or more, there shall be employed in every elementary school with non-English speaking pupils, at least one teacher who is licensed as a teacher of English as a secondary language for every fifty non-English speaking pupils or fraction thereof.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S04585 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S04585-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4585
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 24, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen. SERRANO -- 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  educational  programs
         for  certain non-English speaking pupils in a city having a population
         of one million or more
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section 3204 of the education law is amended  by adding a
    2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    3    6.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY,  IN  A
    4  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  IN  A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE,
    5  THERE SHALL BE EMPLOYED IN  EVERY  ELEMENTARY  SCHOOL  WITH  NON-ENGLISH
    6  SPEAKING  PUPILS  AT  LEAST  ONE TEACHER WHO IS LICENSED AS A TEACHER OF
    7  ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE FOR EVERY FIFTY NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING PUPILS
    8  OR FRACTION THEREOF, IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATIONS  PRESCRIBED  BY  THE
    9  COMMISSIONER CONSISTENT WITH THIS SUBDIVISION.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   11  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
   12  ment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the  imple-
   13  mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on
   14  or before such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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