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Sep 19, 2018 | referred to education |
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A11321 (ACTIVE) - Details
A11321 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Establishes a culturally responsive education curriculum and standards; requires all school districts, charter schools and private schools to integrate culturally responsive education throughout the education of all students at all grade levels; establishes a pilot program in culturally responsive education; appropriates $25,000,000 therefor.
A11321 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 11321 I N A S S E M B L Y September 19, 2018 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Richardson) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a culturally responsive education curriculum and standards; and making an appropriation therefor THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 804-e to read as follows: § 804-E. CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EDUCATION CURRICULUM AND STANDARDS. 1. CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EDUCATION RULES AND REGULATIONS. (A) THE COMMIS- SIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EDUCATION CURRICULUM FOR ALL SCHOOLS INCLUDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. IN FORMULATING SUCH REGULATIONS, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL SEEK INPUT OF PARENTS, STUDENTS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS. (B) IN FORMULATING THE RULES AND REGULATIONS REQUIRED BY PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL RECOGNIZE THAT: MORE THAN HALF OF NEW YORK STATE'S PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE STUDENTS OF COLOR; EDUCATION THAT MAKES A CULTURAL CONNECTION WITH STUDENTS HAS BEEN SHOWN TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES; CULTURAL RESPONSIVENESS ADVANCES AND ACCELERATES STUDENT LEARNING BY HONORING AND SUPPORTING STUDENTS' CULTURAL, LINGUISTIC AND RACIAL EXPERIENCES; IN ORDER FOR STUDENTS TO GAIN THE FULL BENEFITS OF THE DIVERSITY OF NEW YORK STATE, CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EDUCATION MUST BE A PART OF THE DAILY SCHOOLING EXPERIENCES OF ALL STUDENTS; AND CULTURAL RESPONSIVENESS WILL PREPARE EDUCATORS TO RELATE ASPECTS OF STUDENTS' DAILY LIVES TO THE CURRICULUM. (C) ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, CHARTER SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS SHALL INTEGRATE CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EDUCATION THROUGHOUT THE EDUCATION OF ALL STUDENTS AT ALL GRADE LEVELS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMMISSIONER'S RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION. (D) THE COMMISSIONER'S RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, CURRICULUM STANDARDS FOR: AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENT, LATINO AMERICAN HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENT, NATIVE AMERICAN EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets