Bill Text: NY S04613 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates Aviation High School in New York City as a special New York city high school which requires admission based by "solely and exclusively taking a competitive, objective and scholastic achievement examination".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-06 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S04613 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S04613-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4613
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 24, 2009
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       Introduced by Sens. ONORATO, THOMPSON -- 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 including Aviation
         High School as a special high school in New York city
         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 2590-h of the
    2  education law, as amended by chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    (b) all specialized senior high  schools.  The  special  high  schools
    5  shall include the present schools known as:
    6    The  Bronx  High  School  of Science, Stuyvesant High School, AVIATION
    7  HIGH SCHOOL,  Brooklyn Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High
    8  School of Music and the Arts in  the  borough  of  Manhattan,  and  such
    9  further  schools  which  the city board may designate from time to time.
   10  The special schools shall be permitted to maintain a  discovery  program
   11  in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the effective
   12  date  of  this  section;  admissions  to  the  special  schools shall be
   13  conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
   14  effective date of this section;
   15    S 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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