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Assembly Bill A2335

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Excludes for-profit business or corporate entities from applying to establish a charter school

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2009-A2335 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2851, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A1880

2009-A2335 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes for-profit business or corporate entities from applying to establish a charter school or from being approved to operate a charter school.

2009-A2335 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2335

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. McENENY, JACOBS, GLICK, CLARK, DelMONTE, EDDING-
  TON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, CAHILL, ESPAILLAT, GOTT-
  FRIED, GREENE, MARKEY, PRETLOW, WEISENBERG -- read once  and  referred
  to the Committee on Education

AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to eligibility to estab-
  lish a charter school

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 2851 of the education law, as
added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
  1. An application to establish a charter school may  be  submitted  by
teachers,  parents,  school  administrators,  community residents or any
combination thereof.  Such application may be filed in conjunction  with
a  college, university, museum, educational institution, OR not-for-pro-
fit corporation exempt from taxation under paragraph 3 of subsection (c)
of section 501 of the internal revenue code [or for-profit  business  or
corporate  entity authorized to do business in New York state. For char-
ter schools established in conjunction with  a  for-profit  business  or
corporate  entity,  the charter shall specify the extent of the entity's
participation in the  management  and  operation  of  the  school],  AND
PROVIDED THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL AN APPLICATION TO ESTABLISH A
CHARTER  SCHOOL  OR APPROVAL TO OPERATE A CHARTER SCHOOL BE GRANTED TO A
FOR-PROFIT BUSINESS OR CORPORATE ENTITY AUTHORIZED  TO  DO  BUSINESS  IN
THIS STATE.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply to all
applications to establish a charter school pending or submitted prior to
such effective date and still pending as well  as  to  all  applications
submitted on or after the effective date of this act.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00526-01-9

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