NY State Senate Bill 2017-S6485

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Jan 03, 2018	referred to education
May 24, 2017	referred to education

2017-S6485 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education

2017-S6485 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of education to establish a regional secondary school advisory council and for such council to make recommendations regarding the establishment of regional high schools; provides for the repeal thereof.

2017-S6485 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S6485

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to direct the commissioner of education to
establish a regional secondary school advisory council to make
recommendations on the establishment of regional secondary high
schools and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
expiration thereof

 PURPOSE OF THE BILL :

The purpose of the bill is to establish a temporary advisory council
to develop recommendations for legislative proposals for the
establishment of regional secondary schools. The advisory council will
report their recommendations to the Legislature by October 1, 2018.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section 1 of the bill establishes a temporary regional secondary
schools advisory council to develop recommendations for legislative
proposals for the establishment of regional secondary schools. The
bill requires the council to be comprised of 11 members, two of which
shall be appointed by the Governor, two upon recommendation of the
Temporary President of the Senate, two upon recommendation of the
Speaker of the Assembly, one member of the Board of Regents, and the
remaining members shall be either certified teachers, principals,
superintendents from rural, urban and suburban school districts and/or

district superintendents of boards of cooperative educational services
appointed by the Commissioner. Such members shall have demonstrated
expertise in one or more of the following areas: the use of regional
educational services, teaching or administration in secondary schools
or regional transportation. The advisory council is directed to
provide recommendations on: (1) best practices and model school
district policies from throughout the state to be considered, (2)
methods to use regional secondary programming to maximize student
access to a wide range of curricular opportunities to best prepare
students for post-secondary opportunities or the workforce; (3) the
delivery of regional educational services; (4) partnerships with
institutions of higher education and other relevant stakeholders for
workforce opportunities in regional high schools; and (5) any other
recommendations the council feels necessary to successfully implement
regional high schools in certain areas of the state.

Section 3 requires the advisory committee to submit a final report of
its recommendations to the Governor, the Temporary President of the
Senate, the Speaker of the Assembly and the Charis of the education
committees in the Senate and Assembly by October 1, 2018.

Section 4 is the effective date.

 STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL :

In light of fiscal constraints, many school districts are at risk of
not being able to meet their fiscal obligations and/or are facing
educational insolvency due to cuts to critical personnel and programs.
Much of the fiscal and educational pressure on districts is at the
secondary level.

Current state law has limited options for school districts to create
and sustain high quality collaborative secondary schools allowing only
the creation of central high school districts, regional high schools
in Suffolk County and Tech Valley High School in the Capital Region.

School districts across the state need a mechanism to build
collaborative secondary school partnerships that will provide greater
educational services to better ensure that students graduate high
school ready to succeed in college and careers-such as high quality
science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs- through
more cost-effective and efficient operational delivery.

This bill is necessary to establish a temporary advisory council
comprised of educational experts in the field, including members of
the Legislature, the Governor's office, educational experts and
stakeholders to examine previously proposed legislation and identify
barriers and areas of concern and recommendations for new legislative
proposals based upon a review of regionalization models in other
states and best practices. The advisory council will then identify
potential models that would work in New York and make recommendations
to the Board of Regents, the Department, the Legislature and the
Governor's office by October 1, 2018 in order to seek enactment of the
proposed legislation during the 2019 session.

 BUDGETARY IMPLICATIONS OF THE BILL :

The bill requires that advisory council members receive their actual
and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties,
provided that the advisory council shall be authorized to conduct
meetings in a manner that minimizes travel and costs as determined by
the Commissioner.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

This is a new bill.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This bill shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be deemed
repealed on October 1, 2018.

2017-S6485 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6485
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  --  (at request of the State Education
   Department) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be
   committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to direct the commissioner of education to establish a regional
   secondary school advisory  council  to  make  recommendations  on  the
   establishment of regional secondary high schools and providing for the
   repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 1. The commissioner of education shall establish  a  tempo-
 rary  regional secondary advisory council, which shall develop recommen-
 dations for legislative proposals for the establishment of regional high
 schools. Such advisory council shall be comprised of eleven members,  of
 whom,  two  shall  be appointed upon the recommendation of the governor,
 two shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the  temporary  presi-
 dent  of  the  senate, two shall be appointed upon the recommendation of
 the speaker of the assembly, one member of the board of  regents  and/or
 his  or her designee and the remaining members shall be either certified
 teachers, principals, superintendents from  rural,  urban  and  suburban
 school  districts  and/or  district superintendents of boards of cooper-
 ative educational services appointed by the commissioner  of  education.
 The  commissioner  of  education  shall  appoint a chair of the advisory
 council. The members of the advisory council shall represent the  diver-
 sity  of  school environments that exists throughout the state and shall
 have demonstrated experience with  expertise  in  one  or  more  of  the
 following  areas:  the  use  of regional educational services, teaching,
 administration in secondary schools, or regional transportation.
   2. The recommendations of the advisory council shall include, but  not
 be limited to:
   (a)  recommendations  for  legislative proposals to establish regional
 high schools in certain areas of the state;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD11382-02-7

 S. 6485                             2
 
   (b) best practices and model school district policies from  throughout
 the  state and nation relating to regional educational services that may
 be considered by the state and school  districts  in  implementation  of
 regional high schools;
   (c)  methods  using regional secondary programming to maximize student
 access to a wide range  of  curricular  opportunities  to  best  prepare
 students for post-secondary opportunities and the workforce;
   (d) recommendations for the delivery of regional educational services,
 including  tuition  reimbursement,  the  issuance of degrees in regional
 high schools when there are multiple  sending  districts,  the  role  of
 boards  of  cooperative  educational services, employees in the regional
 high schools; transportation issues, economic and  administrative  effi-
 ciencies  and  services  for  students  with  disabilities  and  English
 language learners;
   (e) partnerships with institutions of higher education and other rele-
 vant stakeholders for workforce opportunities in regional high  schools;
 and
   (f)  any other recommendations the council feels necessary to success-
 fully implement regional high schools in certain areas of this state.
   § 2. The members of the advisory council shall receive no compensation
 for their services, but shall be  allowed  their  actual  and  necessary
 expenses  incurred  in  the performance of their duties pursuant to this
 act, provided that the advisory council shall be authorized  to  conduct
 meetings  in  a  manner that minimizes travel and costs as determined by
 the commissioner of education.
   § 3. The advisory committee shall submit a final report of its  recom-
 mendations  to  the Board of Regents, the governor, the temporary presi-
 dent of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the  chairs  of  the
 education  committees  in the assembly and senate on or before the first
 of October two thousand eighteen.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed October 1, 2018.

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