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Assembly Bill A5563

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires the implementation of educational programs in English literacy for certain non-English speaking pupils in N.Y. city

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2009-A5563 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4585
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3204, Ed L

2009-A5563 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that, in every school district in cities having a population of 1,000,000 or more, there shall be employed in every elementary school with non-English speaking pupils, at least one teacher who is licensed as a teacher of English as a secondary language for every fifty non-English speaking pupils or fraction thereof.

2009-A5563 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5563

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2009
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to educational programs
  for certain non-English speaking pupils in a city having a  population
  of one million or more

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

  Section 1.  Section 3204 of the education law is amended  by adding  a
new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
  6.    NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, IN A
SCHOOL DISTRICT IN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE  MILLION  OR  MORE,
THERE  SHALL  BE  EMPLOYED  IN  EVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WITH NON-ENGLISH
SPEAKING PUPILS AT LEAST ONE TEACHER WHO IS LICENSED  AS  A  TEACHER  OF
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE FOR EVERY FIFTY NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING PUPILS
OR  FRACTION  THEREOF,  IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE
COMMISSIONER CONSISTENT WITH THIS SUBDIVISION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
ment  and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on
or before such effective date.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08711-01-9

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