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Assembly Bill A2117

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for an unlimited number of charters issued for charter school but maintains the percentages of recommendations

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2009-A2117 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2852, Ed L

2009-A2117 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for an unlimited number of charters issued for charter school but maintains the percentages of recommendations.

2009-A2117 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2117

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to the total number of
  charters issued for new charter schools in New York state

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  9  of  section 2852 of the education law, as
amended by section 2 of part D2 of chapter 57 of the laws  of  2007,  is
amended to read as follows:
  9.  The total number of charters issued pursuant to this article shall
not [exceed two hundred. One hundred] BE LIMITED; PROVIDED, HOWEVER THAT
FIFTY PERCENT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER of such charters shall  be  issued  on
the  recommendation  of the charter entity described in paragraph (b) of
subdivision three of section  twenty-eight  hundred  fifty-one  of  this
article,  and  [one  hundred]  FIFTY PERCENT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER of such
charters shall be issued on the  recommendation  of  the  other  charter
entities  set forth in subdivision three of section twenty-eight hundred
fifty-one of this article[, provided that up to fifty of the  additional
charters authorized to be issued by the chapter of the laws of two thou-
sand  seven  which  amended  this  subdivision effective July first, two
thousand seven shall be reserved for a city school district  of  a  city
having  a population of one million or more]. The failure of any body to
issue the regulations authorized pursuant  to  this  article  shall  not
effect  the  authority  of  a charter entity to propose a charter to the
board of regents or the board of regents' authority to grant such  char-
ter.  A  conversion  of an existing public school to a charter school or
the renewal or extension of a charter shall not be  counted  toward  the
numerical [limits] PERCENTAGES established by this subdivision.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05342-01-9

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