Assembly Bill A2373

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Establishes pilot grant program to enable overage, under-credit youth to obtain high school diploma or equivalent

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  • 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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2011-A2373 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1700
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 100 §§4950 - 4955, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3621, S146
2013-2014: A1353, S251
2015-2016: A4526, S4068

2011-A2373 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes pilot grant program to enable overage, under-credit youth to obtain high school diploma or equivalent.

2011-A2373 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  2373

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 18, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CLARK, P. RIVERA, SCARBOROUGH, HOYT -- Multi-
  Sponsored by -- M. of A.  PEOPLES-STOKES, PHEFFER,  J. RIVERA,  SPANO,
  WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a pilot
  program for overage, under-credit students to prepare  these  students
  for  post secondary education or training and providing for the repeal
  of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

  Section  1.  Legislative  intent.  The  legislature  hereby  finds and
declares it necessary to increase the graduation  rate  in  this  state,
particularly  New  York City, Yonkers, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse,
where the drop-out rate is exceptionally high particularly with minority
and limited English proficient students. To do so, the legislature finds
it necessary to create a research-based pilot program to assist overage,
under-credit students, who are typically  at  risk  of  not  graduating,
obtain  a  high school diploma or general equivalency diploma (GED), and
to prepare these students for post-secondary education or training.  The
legislature  recognizes  that  a  variety  of  individual, familial, and
community-based factors may contribute to a student's failure to  gradu-
ate, including, but not limited to, the student's poor academic perform-
ance  or attendance, parents' academic history, alcohol and/or substance
abuse in the home, upbringing in  a  single  parent  household  or  teen
parent  household,  neglect  and/or  abuse  in  the  home,  insufficient
parental interest or involvement in students' academic  performance,  or
otherwise,  limited  English  proficiency in the home, limited access to
health care, or limited economic means, poverty  or  parental  unemploy-
ment.
  The  pilot program will examine the relationship between the aforemen-
tioned risk factors and the students' academic progress as well  as  the
influence of the program's academic and after school support services on

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05907-01-1
              

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