Bill Text: NY A06791 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the community schools act; authorizes the commissioner to award grants for community schools programming; appropriates funds therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-24 - print number 6791a [A06791 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06791-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6791--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 2, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, BRINDISI, FAHY, MAYER, LAVINE,
          McDONALD, ARROYO, STECK, CRESPO, SKARTADOS, MAGNARELLI, BLAKE,  NOLAN,
          COOK, JOYNER, GUNTHER, LIFTON, BRONSON, CAHILL, RYAN, JAFFEE, SKOUFIS,
          GALEF,  ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON, SOLAGES -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to  the
          Committee  on  Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to establishing the
          community schools act; and making an appropriation therefor
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "community
     2  schools act".
     3    § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  3602-g  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  3602-g.  Community schools grant program. 1. There is hereby estab-
     6  lished within the department a community schools grant program  to  fund
     7  the  planning,  implementation,  improvement and evaluation of community
     8  schools. The purpose of this program shall be:
     9    a. to  ensure  high-quality  educational  opportunities  and  improved
    10  educational  outcomes  for  all students through investment in community
    11  schools;
    12    b. to  establish  sustainable  community  schools  with  engaging  and
    13  culturally  relevant  curriculum, health, social and emotional services,
    14  positive discipline practices such as restorative justice, and transfor-
    15  mational parent and community engagement, as a comprehensive solution to
    16  problems facing public schools, especially in poor communities; and
    17    c. to document and evaluate lessons  learned  from  community  schools
    18  programs to develop a set of best practices to be shared locally, state-
    19  wide and nationally.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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