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Assembly Bill A10073

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Authorizes the chancellor of the city district to control and operate certain specialized high schools in the city of New York

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2013-A10073 (ACTIVE) - Details

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

2013-A10073 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the chancellor of the city school district to control and operate certain specialized high schools in the city of New York; adds specific specialized high schools to the list of schools which the chancellor is authorized to control and operate.

2013-A10073 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10073

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 11, 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 authorizing the  chan-
  cellor of the city district to control and operate certain specialized
  high schools in the city of New York

  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. 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, BROOKLYN LATIN SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL
FOR MATH, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT CITY COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL OF AMERI-
CAN STUDIES AT LEHMAN COLLEGE, QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL FOR  THE  SCIENCES  AT
YORK  COLLEGE,  AVIATION  HIGH  SCHOOL,  TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL AND
STATEN ISLAND  TECHNICAL  HIGH  SCHOOL  and  such  [further]  ADDITIONAL
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;  admissions  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, however, that
the amendments made to paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section  2590-h
of  the  education  law made by section one of this act shall not affect
the expiration 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.
                                                           LBD15568-01-4

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