S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1787
                              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
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to admission to a special
         high school in the city school district of the city of New York
         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  AND  SUCH OTHER FACTORS AS THE CITY BOARD SHALL DETERMINE TO
   16  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 AND SUCH OTHER FACTORS AS THE CITY
    5  BOARD SHALL DETERMINE TO BE NECESSARY.
    6    S 3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
    7  law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended  to  read
    8  as follows:
    9    (b)  all  specialized  [senior] high schools. The special high schools
   10  shall include the present schools known as:
   11    The Bronx High School of Science,  Stuyvesant  High  School,  Brooklyn
   12  Technical  High  School,  Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and
   13  the Arts in the borough of  Manhattan,  and  such  [further]  ADDITIONAL
   14  schools  which  the  city  board  may  designate  from time to time. The
   15  special schools shall be permitted to maintain a  discovery  program  in
   16  accordance  with  the  law in effect on the date preceding the effective
   17  date of this section[;  admissions  to  the  special  schools  shall  be
   18  conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
   19  effective date of this section];
   20    S 4. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
   21  law,  as  amended by chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read
   22  as follows:
   23    (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The  special  high  schools
   24  shall include the present schools known as:
   25    The  Bronx  High  School  of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn
   26  Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School  of  Music  and
   27  the  Arts  in  the  borough  of Manhattan, and such [further] ADDITIONAL
   28  schools which the city board  may  designate  from  time  to  time.  The
   29  special  schools  shall  be permitted to maintain a discovery program in
   30  accordance with the law in effect on the date  preceding  the  effective
   31  date  of  this  section[;  admissions  to  the  special schools shall be
   32  conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
   33  effective date of this section];
   34    S 5. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
   35  the  date  on which it shall have become a law; provided that the amend-
   36  ments to subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law,  made  by
   37  sections  one  and  two  of this act, shall apply to the Stuyvesant high
   38  school, the Bronx high school of science, the  Brooklyn  technical  high
   39  school,  the Staten Island technical high school, the Queens high school
   40  for the sciences at York  college,  the  high  school  for  mathematics,
   41  science  and  engineering  at City college, the high school for American
   42  studies at Lehman college, the Brooklyn Latin school, and all additional
   43  schools that the board of education of the city school district  of  the
   44  city  of  New York designates as special high schools, not including the
   45  Fiorello H. LaGuardia high school  of  music  and  the  arts;  provided,
   46  further,  that  the  amendments  to  subdivision 4 of section 2590-g and
   47  paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of  the  education  law
   48  made by sections one and three of this act shall be subject to the expi-
   49  ration  and reversion of such sections pursuant to section 34 of chapter
   50  91 of the laws of 2002, as amended and subdivision 12 of section  17  of
   51  chapter  345 of the laws of 2009, as amended respectively when upon such
   52  date the provisions of sections two and four  of  this  act  shall  take
   53  effect.