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Assembly Bill A9740

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to charter schools operating at multiple sites

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2009-A9740 (ACTIVE) - Details

See other versions of this Bill:
A9165 ,
S5049 ,
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2853, Ed L

2009-A9740 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to charter schools operating at multiple sites.

2009-A9740 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A9740 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9740

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 21, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CAMARA -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Education

AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to charter schools oper-
  ating at multiple sites

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (b-1)  of subdivision 1 of section 2853 of the
education law, as added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, is amended  to
read as follows:
  (b-1) An education corporation operating a charter school shall not be
authorized to operate more than one school [or] BUT MAY BE AUTHORIZED TO
house any grade at more than one site[, provided that:
  (A) a]. A CHARTER SCHOOL HOUSING ANY GRADE AT MORE THAN ONE SITE SHALL
HAVE  EACH  SUCH  ADDITIONAL  SITE  DEEMED  AS  A CHARTER ISSUED FOR THE
PURPOSES OF SUBDIVISION NINE OF SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT  HUNDRED  FIFTY-TWO
OF  THIS ARTICLE.   NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER,
APPROVAL OF REVISION TO A CHARTER OR CHARTERS TO AUTHORIZE AN  EDUCATION
CORPORATION  TO HOUSE ANY GRADE OR GRADES AT MORE THAN ONE SITE, INCLUD-
ING THE MERGER OR CONSOLIDATION OF EXISTING EDUCATION CORPORATIONS OPER-
ATING CHARTER SCHOOLS TO A SINGLE EDUCATION CORPORATION, SHALL  BE  MADE
IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION TWEN-
TY-EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE.   IF A  CHARTER  SCHOOL  HAS
EMPLOYEES WHO ARE MEMBERS OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ORGANIZATION PURSU-
ANT  TO ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW THAT MERGES OR CONSOL-
IDATES WITH A CHARTER SCHOOL  WHOSE  EMPLOYEES  ARE  NOT  MEMBERS  OF  A
COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING  ORGANIZATION, EMPLOYEES OF THE MERGED OR CONSOL-
IDATED CHARTER SCHOOL SHALL BE  MEMBERS  OF  THE  COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING
ORGANIZATION THAT REPRESENTED LIKE POSITIONS, IF ANY, PRIOR TO THE MERG-
ER  OR  CONSOLIDATION.  A  charter  school  may operate in more than one
building at a single site; and [(B)] a  charter  school  which  provides
instruction  to  its  students  at  different locations for a portion of
their school day shall be deemed to be operating at a single site; AND A
CHARTER SCHOOL OPERATING AT  MORE THAN ONE SITE BUT  WHICH  HOUSES  EACH
GRADE AT A SINGLE SITE SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE OPERATING AT A SINGLE SITE.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.

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