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Senate Bill S3987

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires charter schools to enroll children with disabilities and English language learners in comparable numbers to those enrolled in public schools

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2013-S3987 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2854, Ed L

2013-S3987 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires charter schools to enroll children with disabilities and English language learners in comparable numbers to those enrolled in public schools and provides that failure to comply may result in revocation of the charter.

2013-S3987 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S3987 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3987

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 4, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  requiring  charter
  schools  to  enroll  children  with  disabilities and English language
  learners in comparable numbers to those enrolled in public schools

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  2 of section 2854 of the
education law, as amended by chapter 101 of the laws of 2010, is amended
to read as follows:
  (a) A charter school shall be nonsectarian in its programs,  admission
policies,  employment  practices, and all other operations and shall not
charge tuition or fees; provided that a charter school may  require  the
payment of fees on the same basis and to the same extent as other public
schools.  A  charter  school shall not discriminate against any student,
employee or any other person on the basis of ethnicity, national origin,
gender, or disability or any other ground that would be unlawful if done
by a school. Admission of students shall not be limited on the basis  of
intellectual  ability,  measures  of  achievement  or aptitude, athletic
ability, disability, race, creed, gender, national origin, religion,  or
ancestry;  provided,  however,  that  nothing  in  this article shall be
construed to prevent the establishment of a single-sex charter school or
a charter school designed to provide expanded learning opportunities for
students at-risk of academic failure or students with  disabilities  and
English  language  learners; and provided, further, that [the] A charter
school [shall demonstrate good faith efforts to  attract  and  retain  a
comparable  or  greater enrollment of] MUST ENROLL THE SAME OR A GREATER
PERCENTAGE OF students with disabilities, English language learners, and
students who are eligible applicants for  the  free  and  reduced  price
lunch  program when compared to the enrollment figures for such students
in the school district in which the charter school is  located.  FAILURE

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07763-01-3

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