Bill Text: NY S05777 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits the parents of pupils attending a persistently lowest-achieving school to choose an education intervention model.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-29 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S05777 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S05777-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5777
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 15, 2011
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       Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting the parents
         of pupils attending a persistently lowest-achieving school  to  choose
         an education intervention model
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  3613
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 3613. PERSISTENTLY LOWEST-ACHIEVING SCHOOLS; INTERVENTION MODELS. 1.
    4  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL MEAN: A.
    5  "PERSISTENTLY LOWEST-ACHIEVING (PLA) SCHOOLS", THE BOTTOM  FIVE  PERCENT
    6  OF  TITLE ONE SCHOOLS IN IMPROVEMENT, CORRECTIVE ACTION OR RESTRUCTURING
    7  STATUS THAT HAVE THE LOWEST COMBINED PERFORMANCE ON THE STATE'S  ENGLISH
    8  LANGUAGE  ARTS AND MATHEMATICS TESTS AND THAT HAVE FAILED TO DEMONSTRATE
    9  PROGRESS ON THESE ASSESSMENTS.
   10    B. "INTERVENTION MODELS", FEDERAL EDUCATION INTERVENTION MODELS  WHICH
   11  INCLUDE  THE  TURNAROUND  MODEL,  RESTART MODEL, TRANSFORMATION MODEL OR
   12  CLOSURE MODEL.  IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL  EDUCATION  IMPROVE-
   13  MENT  GRANTS,  THE  UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REQUIRES A PLA
   14  SCHOOL TO EITHER: (1) REDESIGN OR REPLACE SUCH SCHOOL (TURNAROUND);  (2)
   15  CONVERT  SUCH SCHOOL TO A CHARTER SCHOOL OR CONTRACT WITH AN EDUCATIONAL
   16  PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION TO OPERATE SUCH SCHOOL (RESTART); (3) TRANSFORM
   17  SUCH SCHOOL (TRANSFORMATION); OR (4)  CLOSE  SUCH  SCHOOL  AND  TRANSFER
   18  STUDENTS TO HIGHER PERFORMING SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT (CLOSURE).
   19    2.   ANY   SCHOOL  IDENTIFIED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  AS  PERSISTENTLY
   20  LOWEST-ACHIEVING AND THAT IS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT ONE  OF  FOUR  INTER-
   21  VENTION  MODELS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHED
   22  FOR FEDERAL EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT GRANTS, SHALL PERMIT  THE  PARENTS  OR
   23  LEGAL  GUARDIANS  OF  PUPILS  ATTENDING  SUCH PLA SCHOOL TO CHOOSE WHICH
   24  INTERVENTION MODEL SHALL BE IMPLEMENTED IF AT LEAST  FIFTY-FIVE  PERCENT
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11084-07-1
       S. 5777                             2
    1  OF  THE  PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS OF PUPILS ATTENDING SUCH SCHOOL HAVE
    2  VOTED  AND  SIGNED  A  PETITION  IDENTIFYING  ONE  INTERVENTION   MODEL.
    3  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION ELIGIBLE SCHOOLS MAY
    4  CHOOSE TO IMPLEMENT EITHER THE TURNAROUND MODEL, RESTART MODEL OR TRANS-
    5  FORMATION  MODEL AS IDENTIFIED IN PARAGRAPH B OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
    6  SECTION.
    7    3. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE APPLICABLE TO CITIES HAVING
    8  A POPULATION OF MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND AND LESS THAN
    9  THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.