Bill Text: NY S07684 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to approve all admissions policy changes in a city school district, in a city with a population of one million or more.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S07684 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S07684-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7684 IN SENATE February 8, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HAMILTON -- 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 admission policy changes in a city school district 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. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five hundred ninety-i 5 of this article, maintain such jurisdiction over city-wide educational 6 policies governing the special, academic, vocational, and other high 7 schools authorized by this article [before the effective date of this8section] as the respective community district education councils main- 9 tain over the schools within their jurisdiction, which shall not be 10 construed to require or authorize the day-to-day supervision or the 11 administration of the operations of such schools. Provided, further, the 12 chancellor shall request, in writing, approval from the commissioner 13 prior to implementing any admissions policy changes and the commissioner 14 shall wait a minimum of ninety days from receipt of such request before 15 making a final determination. Within thirty days of receipt of a 16 request, the commissioner shall issue a notice for public comment and 17 such public comment period shall remain open for thirty days. All public 18 comments collected during such thirty day period shall be considered 19 prior to final determination. 20 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as added by 21 chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: 22 4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five hundred ninety-i 23 of this article, maintain such jurisdiction over policies governing the 24 special, academic, vocational and other high schools authorized by this 25 article [before the effective date of this section] as the respective 26 community boards maintain over the schools within their jurisdiction, 27 which shall not be construed to require or authorize the day-to-day EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13700-04-8S. 7684 2 1 supervision or the administration of the operations of such schools. 2 Provided, further, the chancellor shall request, in writing, approval 3 from the commissioner prior to implementing any admissions policy chang- 4 es and the commissioner shall wait a minimum of ninety days from receipt 5 of such request before making a final determination. Within thirty days 6 of receipt of a request, the commissioner shall issue a notice for 7 public comment and such public comment period shall remain open for 8 thirty days. All public comments collected during such thirty day period 9 shall be considered prior to final determination. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 11 ment to subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law made by 12 section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion 13 of such section pursuant to section 34 of chapter 91 of the laws of 14 2002, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of 15 this act shall take effect.
