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                                        1787--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 14, 2015
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       Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed  to  be  committed  to the Committee on Education -- committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to admission to a special
         high school in the city school district in a city having a  population
         of one million or more
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the  education  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  345  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five  hundred  ninety-i
    5  of  this  article, maintain such jurisdiction over city-wide educational
    6  policies governing the special, academic,  vocational,  and  other  high
    7  schools  authorized  by  this article [before the effective date of this
    8  section] as the respective community district education  councils  main-
    9  tain  over  the  schools  within  their jurisdiction, which shall not be
   10  construed to require or authorize  the  day-to-day  supervision  or  the
   11  administration  of  the  operations of such schools.  PROVIDED, FURTHER,
   12  THE CITY BOARD SHALL ESTABLISH PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS FOR ADMISSION TO
   13  THE SPECIAL HIGH SCHOOLS OF THE CITY DISTRICT, WHICH  SHALL  CONSIST  OF
   14  MULTIPLE MEASURES OF STUDENT MERIT INCLUDING THE GRADE POINT AVERAGES OF
   15  APPLICANTS,  CULMINATED  STUDENT  PORTFOLIO, TEACHER RECOMMENDATIONS AND
   16  SUCH OTHER FACTORS AS THE CITY BOARD SHALL DETERMINE TO BE NECESSARY.
   17    S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as added by
   18  chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   19    4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five  hundred  ninety-i
   20  of  this article, maintain such jurisdiction over policies governing the
   21  special, academic, vocational and other high schools authorized by  this
   22  article  [before  the  effective date of this section] as the respective
   23  community boards maintain over the schools  within  their  jurisdiction,
   24  which  shall  not  be  construed  to require or authorize the day-to-day
   25  supervision or the administration of the  operations  of  such  schools.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  PROVIDED,  FURTHER, THE CITY BOARD SHALL ESTABLISH PROCEDURES AND STAND-
    2  ARDS FOR ADMISSION TO THE SPECIAL HIGH SCHOOLS  OF  THE  CITY  DISTRICT,
    3  WHICH  SHALL CONSIST OF MULTIPLE MEASURES OF STUDENT MERIT INCLUDING THE
    4  GRADE POINT AVERAGES OF APPLICANTS, CULMINATED STUDENT PORTFOLIO, TEACH-
    5  ER RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUCH OTHER FACTORS AS THE CITY BOARD SHALL DETER-
    6  MINE TO BE NECESSARY.
    7    S 3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
    8  law,  as  amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read
    9  as follows:
   10    (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The  special  high  schools
   11  shall include the present schools known as:
   12    The  Bronx  High  School  of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn
   13  Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School  of  Music  and
   14  the  Arts  in  the  borough  of Manhattan, and such [further] ADDITIONAL
   15  schools which the city board  may  designate  from  time  to  time.  The
   16  special  schools  shall  be permitted to maintain a discovery program in
   17  accordance with the law in effect on the date  preceding  the  effective
   18  date  of  this  section[;  admissions  to  the  special schools shall be
   19  conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
   20  effective date of this section];
   21    S 4. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
   22  law, as amended by chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended  to  read
   23  as follows:
   24    (b)  all  specialized  [senior] high schools. The special high schools
   25  shall include the present schools known as:
   26    The Bronx High School of Science,  Stuyvesant  High  School,  Brooklyn
   27  Technical  High  School,  Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and
   28  the Arts in the borough of  Manhattan,  and  such  [further]  ADDITIONAL
   29  schools  which  the  city  board  may  designate  from time to time. The
   30  special schools shall be permitted to maintain a  discovery  program  in
   31  accordance  with  the  law in effect on the date preceding the effective
   32  date of this section[;  admissions  to  the  special  schools  shall  be
   33  conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
   34  effective date of this section];
   35    S  5. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
   36  the date on which it shall have become a law; provided that  the  amend-
   37  ments  to  subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, made by
   38  sections one and two of this act, shall apply  to  the  Stuyvesant  high
   39  school,  the  Bronx  high school of science, the Brooklyn technical high
   40  school, the Staten Island technical high school, the Queens high  school
   41  for  the  sciences  at  York  college,  the high school for mathematics,
   42  science and engineering at City college, the high  school  for  American
   43  studies at Lehman college, the Brooklyn Latin school, and all additional
   44  schools  that  the board of education of the city school district of the
   45  city of New York designates as special high schools, not  including  the
   46  Fiorello  H.  LaGuardia  high  school  of  music and the arts; provided,
   47  further, that the amendments to subdivision  4  of  section  2590-g  and
   48  paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education law
   49  made by sections one and three of this act shall be subject to the expi-
   50  ration and reversion of such sections pursuant to section 34 of  chapter
   51  91  of  the laws of 2002, as amended and subdivision 12 of section 17 of
   52  chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, as amended respectively when upon  such
   53  date  the  provisions  of  sections  two and four of this act shall take
   54  effect.