Bill Text: NY S00349 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to improving educational outcomes for homeless school age children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00349 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00349-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           349
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to improving  educational
          outcomes for homeless school age children
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 3209  of  the  education  law  is
     2  renumbered  subdivision  12 and two new subdivisions 10 and 11 are added
     3  to read as follows:
     4    10. a. By January thirty-first, two thousand ` twenty-one,  and  every
     5  odd-numbered  year  thereafter,  the  commissioner  shall  submit to the
     6  governor and the legislature a report including, but not limited to:
     7    (1) the number of identified homeless school age children enrolled  in
     8  public schools;
     9    (2)  the  academic  performance  and  educational outcomes of homeless
    10  school age children, including but not limited to the following:
    11    (i) student scores on the statewide administered academic assessments;
    12    (ii) English language proficiency;
    13    (iii) dropout rates;
    14    (iv) four-year adjusted graduation rate;
    15    (v) five-year adjusted graduation rate;
    16    (vi) absenteeism rates;
    17    (vii) truancy rates, if available; and
    18    (viii) suspension and expulsion data.
    19    b. The data reported pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision  must
    20  include  state  and district-level information and must be disaggregated
    21  by at least the following  subgroups  of  school  age  children:  white,
    22  black,   Hispanic,   American   Indian/Alaskan  Native,  Asian,  Pacific
    23  Islander/Hawaiian Native, low income, transitional  bilingual,  migrant,
    24  special education, and gender.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    11.  The  commissioner,  in  collaboration with experts from community
     2  organizations on  homelessness  and  homeless  education  policy,  shall
     3  develop  a  homeless  education policy on how to better provide services
     4  and support to homeless school age children and on how to utilize feder-
     5  al title I funding.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.