Bill Text: NY A04338 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to improving educational outcomes for homeless school age children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A04338 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04338-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4338

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 14, 2023
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to improving  educational
          outcomes for homeless school age children

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 3209  of  the  education  law  is
     2  renumbered  subdivision  12 and two new subdivisions 10 and 11 are added
     3  to read as follows:
     4    10. a. By January thirty-first, two thousand  twenty-five,  and  every
     5  odd-numbered  year  thereafter,  the  commissioner  shall  submit to the
     6  governor and the legislature a report including, but not limited to:
     7    (1) the number of identified homeless school age children enrolled  in
     8  public schools;
     9    (2)  the  academic  performance  and  educational outcomes of homeless
    10  school age children, including but not limited to the following:
    11    (i) student scores on the statewide administered academic assessments;
    12    (ii) English language proficiency;
    13    (iii) dropout rates;
    14    (iv) four-year adjusted graduation rate;
    15    (v) five-year adjusted graduation rate;
    16    (vi) absenteeism rates;
    17    (vii) truancy rates, if available; and
    18    (viii) suspension and expulsion data.
    19    b. The data reported pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision shall
    20  include state and district-level information and must  be  disaggregated
    21  by  at  least  the  following  subgroups  of school age children: white,
    22  black,  Hispanic,  American  Indian/Alaskan   Native,   Asian,   Pacific
    23  Islander/Hawaiian  Native,  low income, transitional bilingual, migrant,
    24  special education, and gender.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06400-01-3
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     1    11. The commissioner, in collaboration  with  experts  from  community
     2  organizations  on  homelessness  and  homeless  education  policy, shall
     3  develop a homeless education policy on how to  better  provide  services
     4  and support to homeless school age children and on how to utilize feder-
     5  al title I funding.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.