Bill Text: NY A03676 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs for certified teachers already holding a graduate degree; exempts certified teachers who already hold a graduate degree from the graduate record examination or substantially equivalent admission examination requirement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-12-13 - signed chap.454 [A03676 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03676-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3676--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK, BRINDISI -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to admission requirements
          for  graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs for certi-
          fied teachers already holding a graduate degree
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 210-a of the education law, as added by section 1
     2  of subpart B of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    § 210-a. Admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and  educa-
     5  tional  leader  programs.  Each institution registered by the department
     6  with graduate-level teacher and leader education  programs  shall  adopt
     7  rigorous  selection criteria geared to predicting a candidate's academic
     8  success in its program, including but not limited to, a minimum score on
     9  the graduate record examination or a substantially equivalent  admission
    10  examination,  as  determined  by  the  institution, and achievement of a
    11  cumulative grade point average of  3.0  or  higher  in  the  candidate's
    12  undergraduate  program; provided, however, such graduate record examina-
    13  tion or substantially equivalent admission examination requirement shall
    14  in no case apply to certified  teachers  or  school  administrators  who
    15  already  hold  a  graduate  degree. Each program may exempt no more than
    16  fifteen percent of any incoming class of students  from  such  selection
    17  criteria set forth in this section based on a student's demonstration of
    18  potential  to  positively contribute to the teaching profession or other
    19  extenuating circumstances pursuant to the regulations of the commission-
    20  er. A program shall report to the  department  the  number  of  students
    21  admitted  pursuant to such exemption and the selection criteria used for
    22  such exemptions.
    23    § 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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