Bill Text: NY S00179 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the state education commissioner to require public school districts to report on compliance with art education instruction requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-04 - PRINT NUMBER 179A [S00179 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00179-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         179--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. SERRANO, ADDABBO, BAILEY, KRUEGER, PARKER, STAVISKY
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Educa-
          tion in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to directing the  commis-
          sioner  of  education  to require public school districts to report on
          compliance with art education instruction requirements

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 817 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 817. Compliance with art education instruction requirements.  1. The
     4  commissioner  shall  create a procedure in which school district compli-
     5  ance with art education instruction requirements as required by law  and
     6  regulation  in  elementary and secondary grades in all public schools is
     7  reported to the department by each school  district.  Each  such  report
     8  shall  include  but not be limited to the following information for each
     9  school district:
    10    a. how many and which schools do not have art education instruction as
    11  required by law and regulation;
    12    b. the reason or reasons why the schools in paragraph a of this subdi-
    13  vision are not in compliance with  art  education  instruction  require-
    14  ments;
    15    c.  the  maximum  number  of  students  who  can receive art education
    16  instruction at each school and how many students currently  receive  art
    17  education instruction at each school;
    18    d.  how  many  and  which  schools do not employ a teacher or teachers
    19  certified in art education for art education instruction;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03156-02-0
        S. 179--A                           2

     1    e. how many and which schools do not provide the class  time  for  art
     2  education  instruction  as required by law and regulation and the reason
     3  or reasons why the schools do not  provide  appropriate  time  for  such
     4  instruction; and
     5    f. how many and which schools are not in compliance with art education
     6  instruction  requirements  established  in  law and regulation or are in
     7  violation of any art education-related law or regulation.
     8    2. Each superintendent of a school district which  contains  at  least
     9  one  school  which  is  not in compliance with art education instruction
    10  requirements established in law and regulation shall:
    11    a. prepare a corrective action plan to be reviewed and approved by the
    12  board of education at a public meeting; and
    13    b. to the extent practicable, begin implementation of such  corrective
    14  action plan the following school year.
    15    3. A list of the school districts that fail to comply with the report-
    16  ing  requirements  in subdivision one of this section shall be posted on
    17  the department's website.
    18    4. On or before July first, two thousand twenty-one,  and  every  year
    19  thereafter, the commissioner shall report to the governor, the temporary
    20  president  of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairs of
    21  the senate and assembly committees on education the commissioner's find-
    22  ings based on the information reported pursuant to  subdivision  one  of
    23  this  section,  including  an  analysis and explanation of the data, and
    24  shall identify steps that can be taken to ensure that all public schools
    25  are in compliance with art education instruction requirements in elemen-
    26  tary and secondary grades.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.