Bill Text: NY S08924 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires instruction in public schools aligned to the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework; requires the commissioner of education to update learning standards on an ongoing basis and provide technical assistance and resources to aid public schools in providing such instruction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S08924 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08924-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8924

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 29, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. LIU, JACKSON -- 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  requiring  that
          instruction  in  public  schools aligned to the Culturally Responsive-
          Sustaining Education Framework

          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 801-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  801-b.  Instruction  related  to  Culturally  Responsive-Sustaining
     4  Education.  1. Instruction aligned to the Culturally Responsive-Sustain-
     5  ing  Education  (CRSE)  Framework  is  required for all pupils in public
     6  schools in order to affirm cultural identities; foster positive academic
     7  outcomes; develop students' abilities to connect across lines of differ-
     8  ence; elevate historically marginalized voices; and contribute to  indi-
     9  vidual student engagement, learning, growth, and achievement through the
    10  cultivation of critical thinking.
    11    2.  Subject  to  ongoing  appropriation, the commissioner shall update
    12  learning standards on an ongoing basis and provide technical  assistance
    13  and  resources to aid public schools in providing such instruction which
    14  shall include but not be limited  to:  the  history  of  diverse  groups
    15  across  race,  social,  class,  gender,  language,  sexual  orientation,
    16  nationality, religion and ability; the history and civic impact of Asian
    17  American, America's Indigenous Peoples, African American, Muslim  Ameri-
    18  can, Hispanic, Latinx and Caribbean Americans, and the Holocaust.
    19    §  2. This act shall take effect on September 1, 2023. Effective imme-
    20  diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
    21  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
    22  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15556-01-2