Bill Text: NY A11304 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the New York city department of education to create more gifted and talented programs and classes in all school districts with elementary kindergarten through fifth grade and intermediate sixth through eighth grade with four or more classes per grade for students who shall gain entry through academic merit rather than through an admissions examination; authorizes automatic admission to a gifted and talented program in intermediate sixth through eighth grade for those students in elementary grades kindergarten through fifth grade who are currently enrolled in such program; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-08-15 - referred to education [A11304 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11304-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11304
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     August 15, 2018
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Colton) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to  requiring  the  New York city department of education to
          create more gifted and talented programs and classes
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
     2  by adding a new section 21-974.1 to read as follows:
     3    § 21-974.1 Gifted and talented programs and classes.   Notwithstanding
     4  any other provision of law, rule, regulation or local law to the contra-
     5  ry, the department shall direct:
     6    a.  All  schools with elementary kindergarten through fifth grade with
     7  four or more classes per grade shall have at least one class  per  grade
     8  for top performing students who gain entry through academic merit rather
     9  than  through  an  admissions examination. All schools with intermediate
    10  sixth through eighth grade with four or more  classes  per  grade  shall
    11  have  at  least one class per grade for top performing students who gain
    12  entry through academic merit rather than through an admissions  examina-
    13  tion.
    14    b.  All  school  districts shall have at least one district gifted and
    15  talented program for elementary kindergarten through  fifth  grade  with
    16  admissions   based  on  the  current  admissions  standard.  All  school
    17  districts shall have at least one district gifted and  talented  program
    18  for  intermediate sixth through eighth grade with admissions based on an
    19  examination that uses a competitive and objective measure of  scholastic
    20  achievement;  provided,  however,  that  any  student  in  a  gifted and
    21  talented program for elementary kindergarten through fifth grade  pursu-
    22  ant  to  this  subdivision shall receive automatic admission to a gifted
    23  and talented program for intermediate sixth through eighth grade.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    26  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    27  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    28  completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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