Bill Text: NY A04549 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits for-profit business or corporate entity to have any involvement in the establishment, management or operation of a charter school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - enacting clause stricken [A04549 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04549-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4549
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 3, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,
         GALEF, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to eligibility to  estab-
         lish a charter school
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2851  of  the  education  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  101  of  the  laws  of 2010, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    1. An application to establish a charter school may  be  submitted  by
    5  teachers,  parents,  school  administrators,  community residents or any
    6  combination thereof.  Such application may be filed in conjunction  with
    7  a  college,  university, museum, educational institution, not-for-profit
    8  corporation exempt from taxation under paragraph 3 of subsection (c)  of
    9  section  501  of  the  internal  revenue  code or for-profit business or
   10  corporate entity authorized to do business in New York  state.  Provided
   11  however, for-profit business or corporate entities shall not be eligible
   12  to  submit  an  application  to  establish  a charter school pursuant to
   13  subdivision nine-a of section twenty-eight  hundred  fifty-two  of  this
   14  article,  or  operate  or  manage  a charter school for a charter issued
   15  pursuant to subdivision nine-a of section twenty-eight hundred fifty-two
   16  of this article. [For charter schools established in conjunction with  a
   17  for-profit  business  or corporate entity, the charter shall specify the
   18  extent of the entity's participation in the management and operation  of
   19  the  school]  UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL AN APPLICATION TO ESTABLISH A
   20  CHARTER SCHOOL OR APPROVAL TO OPERATE A CHARTER SCHOOL BE GRANTED  TO  A
   21  FOR-PROFIT  BUSINESS  OR  CORPORATE  ENTITY AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN
   22  THIS STATE NOR IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER SHALL THEY HAVE  AN  INVOLVEMENT
   23  IN THE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF A CHARTER SCHOOL.
   24    S  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply to all
   25  applications to establish a charter school pending or submitted prior to
   26  such effective date and still pending as well  as  to  all  applications
   27  submitted on or after the effective date of this act.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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