S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4613 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 24, 2009 ___________ 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. LBD03699-01-9