Bill Text: NY A08074 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes a weighted selection process prioritizing children who would be eligible to receive free or reduced price lunch and/or who are emergent multilingual learners for the allocation of certain prekindergarten seats in school districts where there are more eligible children than can be served in a given school year.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-11 - print number 8074a [A08074 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08074-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8074--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. FAHY, BURDICK, McDONALD, AUBRY, GLICK, WALSH,
          LUCAS, LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Educa-
          tion  --  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 authorizing a weighted
          selection process for the allocation of certain prekindergarten seats

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  i  of  subdivision  7 of section 3602-e of the
     2  education law, as amended by section 19 of part B of chapter 57  of  the
     3  laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
     4    i.  establishes a method for selection of eligible children to receive
     5  prekindergarten program services on a random selection basis where there
     6  are more eligible children than can be served in a  given  school  year,
     7  provided, however, that in a school district where there are more eligi-
     8  ble  children than can be served in a given school year that such school
     9  district elect to first enroll children who would be eligible  for  free
    10  or  reduced  price  lunch  and/or children who are emergent multilingual
    11  learners. If a district elects to prioritize enrollment of children  who
    12  are  eligible  for  free  or reduced price lunch and/or children who are
    13  emergent multilingual learners and there are more such eligible children
    14  than can be served in a given school year, such  school  district  shall
    15  establish  a  method  for  selection  among  such eligible children on a
    16  random basis, and provided further that a school district that  operated
    17  a  targeted  prekindergarten  program  in  the  base  year  may  use the
    18  selection process established for such program.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11757-02-4