Senate Bill S7344

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Disallows an application for a charter school to be approved if a school district is under the supervision of a state monitor or fiscal monitor

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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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2021-S7344 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2852, Ed L

2021-S7344 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Disallows an application for a charter school to be approved if a school district has been under the supervision of a state monitor or fiscal monitor in the past five years.

2021-S7344 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7344 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   7344
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              August 25, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to disallowing an  appli-
   cation  for  a  charter  school to be approved if a school district is
   under the supervision of a state monitor or fiscal monitor

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 2 of section 2852 of
 the education law, as amended by section 2 of part D2 of chapter  57  of
 the  laws  of 2007, are amended and a new paragraph (e) is added to read
 as follows:
   (c) granting the application is likely to improve student learning and
 achievement and materially further the purposes set out  in  subdivision
 two of section twenty-eight hundred fifty of this article; [and]
   (d)  in  a  school  district  where  the  total enrollment of resident
 students attending charter schools in the base year is greater than five
 percent of the total public school enrollment of the school district  in
 the  base  year  (i)  granting  the application would have a significant
 educational benefit to the students  expected  to  attend  the  proposed
 charter  school  or (ii) the school district in which the charter school
 will be located consents to such application; AND
   (E) A STATE MONITOR OR FISCAL MONITOR IS NOT OPERATING IN SUCH  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT OR HAS OPERATED IN SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13072-01-1



              

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