Bill Text: NY S06222 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the New York state career development and occupational studies commencement credential shall be considered a diploma and shall be awarded to students with certain disabilities who have attended school for 12 years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S06222 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06222-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6222
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- 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  the  New  York  state
          career development and occupational studies commencement credential
          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 4401-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 4401-b. High school exiting credentials.    1.  Notwithstanding  any
     4  provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the New York state
     5  career  development  and  occupational  studies  commencement credential
     6  shall be considered a diploma and be renamed as such and shall be issued
     7  at the same time the student receives his or her local or regents diplo-
     8  ma or any time after such student  has  attended  school  for  at  least
     9  twelve  years,  excluding  kindergarten, or has received a substantially
    10  equivalent education elsewhere, or at the end  of  the  school  year  in
    11  which a student attains the age of twenty-one.
    12    2. A school district that awards the New York state career development
    13  and  occupational  studies  commencement  diploma  to  more  than twenty
    14  percent of the students with disabilities  in  the  cohort,  where  such
    15  diploma  is  not  a  supplement  to a local or regents diploma, shall be
    16  required to use a portion of its Part B  individuals  with  disabilities
    17  education act grant funds for targeted activities as deemed necessary by
    18  the  department to ensure that students with disabilities have appropri-
    19  ate access to participate and progress in the general education  curric-
    20  ulum necessary to earn a local or regents diploma.
    21    3.  The  commissioner  shall promulgate rules and regulations ensuring
    22  that all students are provided with the appropriate  access  to  earn  a
    23  local  or  regents diploma, including providing students with meaningful
    24  access to participate and progress in the general curriculum  to  assist
    25  in meeting the state's learning standards.
    26    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately, and shall be deemed to
    27  have been in full force and effect on and after July 1, 2013.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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