S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1787
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 14, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- 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 to a special
high school in the city school district of the city of New York
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 this
8 section] 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,
12 THE CITY BOARD SHALL ESTABLISH PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS FOR ADMISSION TO
13 THE SPECIAL HIGH SCHOOLS OF THE CITY DISTRICT, WHICH SHALL CONSIST OF
14 MULTIPLE MEASURES OF STUDENT MERIT INCLUDING THE GRADE POINT AVERAGES OF
15 APPLICANTS AND SUCH OTHER FACTORS AS THE CITY BOARD SHALL DETERMINE TO
16 BE NECESSARY.
17 S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as added by
18 chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
19 4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five hundred ninety-i
20 of this article, maintain such jurisdiction over policies governing the
21 special, academic, vocational and other high schools authorized by this
22 article [before the effective date of this section] as the respective
23 community boards maintain over the schools within their jurisdiction,
24 which shall not be construed to require or authorize the day-to-day
25 supervision or the administration of the operations of such schools.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01898-01-5
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1 PROVIDED, FURTHER, THE CITY BOARD SHALL ESTABLISH PROCEDURES AND STAND-
2 ARDS FOR ADMISSION TO THE SPECIAL HIGH SCHOOLS OF THE CITY DISTRICT,
3 WHICH SHALL CONSIST OF MULTIPLE MEASURES OF STUDENT MERIT INCLUDING THE
4 GRADE POINT AVERAGES OF APPLICANTS AND SUCH OTHER FACTORS AS THE CITY
5 BOARD SHALL DETERMINE TO BE NECESSARY.
6 S 3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
7 law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read
8 as follows:
9 (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The special high schools
10 shall include the present schools known as:
11 The Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn
12 Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and
13 the Arts in the borough of Manhattan, and such [further] ADDITIONAL
14 schools which the city board may designate from time to time. The
15 special schools shall be permitted to maintain a discovery program in
16 accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the effective
17 date of this section[; admissions to the special schools shall be
18 conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
19 effective date of this section];
20 S 4. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
21 law, as amended by chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read
22 as follows:
23 (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The special high schools
24 shall include the present schools known as:
25 The Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn
26 Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and
27 the Arts in the borough of Manhattan, and such [further] ADDITIONAL
28 schools which the city board may designate from time to time. The
29 special schools shall be permitted to maintain a discovery program in
30 accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the effective
31 date of this section[; admissions to the special schools shall be
32 conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
33 effective date of this section];
34 S 5. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
35 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided that the amend-
36 ments to subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, made by
37 sections one and two of this act, shall apply to the Stuyvesant high
38 school, the Bronx high school of science, the Brooklyn technical high
39 school, the Staten Island technical high school, the Queens high school
40 for the sciences at York college, the high school for mathematics,
41 science and engineering at City college, the high school for American
42 studies at Lehman college, the Brooklyn Latin school, and all additional
43 schools that the board of education of the city school district of the
44 city of New York designates as special high schools, not including the
45 Fiorello H. LaGuardia high school of music and the arts; provided,
46 further, that the amendments to subdivision 4 of section 2590-g and
47 paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education law
48 made by sections one and three of this act shall be subject to the expi-
49 ration and reversion of such sections pursuant to section 34 of chapter
50 91 of the laws of 2002, as amended and subdivision 12 of section 17 of
51 chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, as amended respectively when upon such
52 date the provisions of sections two and four of this act shall take
53 effect.