Bill Text: NY A02957 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Deems home instruction which is compliant with the provisions of article 65 of the education law and the home instruction requirements prescribed in the commissioner of education's regulations to be substantially equivalent in amount and quality to the instruction given to students of like age and attainments at the public schools of the city or district where the student resides.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A02957 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02957-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2957

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to home instruction

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (iv) and (v) of subdivision 2 of section 3204 of
     2  the education law are renumbered paragraphs (v) and (vi) and a new para-
     3  graph (iv) is added to read as follows:
     4    (iv)  (A) For purposes of considering substantial equivalence pursuant
     5  to this subdivision for instruction provided  at  home  to  students  of
     6  compulsory  school  attendance  age,  the  department  shall  deem  home
     7  instruction to be substantially equivalent in amount and quality to  the
     8  instruction  given to students of like age and attainments at the public
     9  schools of the city or district  where  the  student  resides  when  the
    10  parent  or  person  in a parental relation with the student has complied
    11  with 8 NYCRR 100.10.
    12    (B) Once a family has fulfilled the obligations of home instruction as
    13  set forth in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph to complete high school,
    14  the superintendent of schools  shall  promptly  provide  the  parent  or
    15  student  with a letter certifying the student's successful completion of
    16  home instruction that was substantially equivalent to the public schools
    17  of such city or district, and provided further that, upon  request  from
    18  an  institution of higher education, the superintendent of schools shall
    19  immediately provide an official copy of such letter of substantial equi-
    20  valence to the institution of higher education.
    21    (C) As used in this paragraph, "institution of higher education" shall
    22  mean any institution of higher education recognized and approved by  the
    23  regents,  the  university  of  the state of New York or regulated by the
    24  bureau of proprietary school supervision  which  provides  a  course  of
    25  study  leading  to the granting of a post-secondary degree or diploma or
    26  certificate.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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