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Assembly Bill A10089

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires that the number of seats available in each borough for specialized high schools in the city of New York shall be proportionate to the number of public school students in each borough

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2013-A10089 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2590-h, Ed L

2013-A10089 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that the number of seats available in each borough for specialized high schools in the city of New York shall be proportionate to the number of public school students in each borough.

2013-A10089 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10089

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 12, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Nolan) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  requiring  that  the
  number of seats available in each borough for specialized high schools
  in the city of New York shall be proportionate to the number of public
  school students in each borough

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of  section  2590-h  of  the
education law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended
to read as follows:
  (b)  all  specialized senior high schools; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE
SEATS AVAILABLE FOR SPECIALIZED HIGH SCHOOLS SHALL BE AVAILABLE IN  EACH
BOROUGH  IN  NUMBERS  PROPORTIONATE  TO  THE POPULATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL
STUDENTS IN EACH BOROUGH.  The special high schools  shall  include  the
present schools known as:
  The  Bronx  High  School  of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn
Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School  of  Music  and
the Arts in the borough of Manhattan, and such further schools which the
city board may designate from time to time. The special schools shall be
permitted  to maintain a discovery program in accordance with the law in
effect on the date preceding the effective date of this section;  admis-
sions  to  the special schools shall be conducted in accordance with the
law in effect on the date preceding the effective date of this section;
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
ments  to paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the educa-
tion law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration
and reversion of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15569-01-4

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