Senate Bill S7200

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires charter schools to enroll children with disabilities and English language learners in comparable numbers to those enrolled in public schools

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S7200 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7981
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2854, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A6251
2013-2014: A4029

2009-S7200 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires charter schools to enroll children with disabilities and English language learners in comparable numbers to those enrolled in public schools and provides that failure to comply may result in revocation of the charter.

2009-S7200 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7200 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7200

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 22, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. SAMPSON -- 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  charter
  schools  to  enroll  children  with  disabilities and English language
  learners in comparable numbers to those enrolled in public schools

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 2854 of the educa-
tion law, as amended by section 5 of part D-2 of chapter 57 of the  laws
of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  (a)  A charter school shall be nonsectarian in its programs, admission
policies, employment practices, and all other operations and  shall  not
charge  tuition  or fees; provided that a charter school may require the
payment of fees on the same basis and to the same extent as other public
schools. A charter school shall not discriminate  against  any  student,
employee or any other person on the basis of ethnicity, national origin,
gender, or disability or any other ground that would be unlawful if done
by  a school. Admission of students shall not be limited on the basis of
intellectual ability, measures  of  achievement  or  aptitude,  athletic
ability,  disability, race, creed, gender, national origin, religion, or
ancestry; provided, however, that  nothing  in  this  article  shall  be
construed to prevent the establishment of a single-sex charter school or
a charter school designed to provide expanded learning opportunities for
students  at-risk of academic failure; and provided, further, that [the]
A charter school [shall demonstrate good faith efforts  to  attract  and
retain  a comparable or greater enrollment of] MUST ENROLL THE SAME OR A
GREATER PERCENTAGE OF students with  disabilities  and  limited  English
proficient  students  when  compared  to the enrollment figures for such
students in the school district in which the charter school is  located.
FAILURE  TO COMPLY FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS SHALL BE DEEMED GROUNDS FOR
REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER. A charter shall not be issued to  any  school
that  would  be  wholly or in part under the control or direction of any
religious denomination, or in which any denominational tenet or doctrine
would be taught.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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