Bill Text: NY A07500 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7500

Introduced

Bill Title: Grants priority to charter school applicants with a board of trustees and school administrators that are at least fifty-one percent minority group members.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A07500 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07500-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7500

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to granting  priority  to
          charter school applicants with a board of trustees and school adminis-
          trators that are at least fifty-one percent minority group members

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 9-a of section 2852 of  the  education  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows:
     3    (c-1)  For any charter issued or reissued on and after July first, two
     4  thousand twenty-three, the board of regents and the board of trustees of
     5  the state university of New York shall grant priority to  any  applicant
     6  that  demonstrates that its charter school will be managed by a board of
     7  trustees and school administrators in which at least  fifty-one  percent
     8  of  such  board of trustees and school administrators are minority group
     9  members as such term is defined in article fifteen-A  of  the  executive
    10  law.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11415-01-3