Bill Text: NY A02727 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to funds for innovation grants for programs to create public/private partnerships to develop and implement innovative, technology-based learning strategies to serve high-need pupils and pupils who are at risk of not meeting the New York state learning standards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A02727 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02727-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2727
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  the  fund  for  inno-
          vation grants
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3641 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17.  Funds  for  innovation  grants.  a. In addition to apportionments
     4  otherwise provided pursuant to this article, for aid payable in the  two
     5  thousand  seventeen--two  thousand  eighteen school year and thereafter,
     6  thirty million dollars shall be  available  and  allocated  pursuant  to
     7  paragraphs b and c of this subdivision and shall be paid for programs to
     8  create  public/private partnerships to develop and implement innovative,
     9  technology-based learning  strategies  to  serve  high-need  pupils  and
    10  pupils who are at risk of not meeting the New York state learning stand-
    11  ards  pursuant  to  regulations  of the commissioner, including, but not
    12  limited to, the  creation  of  one-to-one  laptop  pilot  programs,  the
    13  purchase  of  content-based  software  and/or  support of programs which
    14  provide New York state learning standards-aligned  educational  content,
    15  class lessons and related professional development.
    16    b.  Any  school  district  located in a city with at least one hundred
    17  twenty-five thousand inhabitants, shall be eligible for a grant pursuant
    18  to this section for the purposes contained in paragraph a of this subdi-
    19  vision. Any school district located within a city with a  population  of
    20  one million or more inhabitants shall be eligible for an amount of up to
    21  forty  percent of the total amount allocated pursuant to this paragraph.
    22  Any city school district of a city having a population of less than  one
    23  million  but  in excess of one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants,
    24  shall be eligible for an amount equal to the  product,  rounded  to  the
    25  nearest  dollar,  of  (i)  sixty  percent  of the total amount allocated
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  pursuant to this paragraph, and (ii) the quotient of the district's base
     2  year enrollment on file with the commissioner as of the date upon  which
     3  an  electronic data file was created for the purposes of compliance with
     4  paragraph  b  of subdivision twenty-one of section three hundred five of
     5  this chapter on November fifteenth of the base year, divided by the  sum
     6  of  such base year enrollments for all such city school districts.  Such
     7  grants shall not exceed fifteen million dollars and shall be awarded  by
     8  the  commissioner  pursuant  to a competitive grant process. The commis-
     9  sioner shall evaluate each grant application on the  basis  of  criteria
    10  including  but  not  limited  to:  the  technology  needs  of the school
    11  district, and the ability of the school  district  to  improve  academic
    12  performance by the use of these technologies.
    13    c.  Any  school  district  located outside of a city with at least one
    14  hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants, shall be eligible for a  grant
    15  pursuant  to  this  section for the purposes contained in paragraph a of
    16  this subdivision. Such grants shall not exceed fifteen  million  dollars
    17  and shall be awarded by the commissioner pursuant to a competitive grant
    18  process.  The  commissioner shall evaluate each grant application on the
    19  basis of criteria including but not limited to, the technology needs  of
    20  the  school  district, and the ability of the school district to improve
    21  academic performance by the use of these technologies.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.