Assembly Bill A5210

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Includes the Sandy Ground community in the education curriculum

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A5210 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5990
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §801, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A11139
2023-2024: A3184, S4631

2021-A5210 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes the Sandy Ground community, the oldest continuously inhabited free black settlement in the United States, in the education curriculum.

2021-A5210 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5210
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to including the Sandy
   Ground community in the education curriculum
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 801 of the education law,
 as amended by section 27 of part A of chapter 56 of the  laws  of  2020,
 are amended to read as follows:
   1.  In  order  to  promote a spirit of patriotic and civic service and
 obligation and to foster in the children of the state moral  and  intel-
 lectual  qualities  which  are  essential in preparing to meet the obli-
 gations of citizenship in peace or in war, the regents of The University
 of the State of New York  shall  prescribe  courses  of  instruction  in
 patriotism,  citizenship, civic education and values, our shared history
 of diversity, the role of religious tolerance in this country, and human
 rights issues, with particular attention to the study of the  inhumanity
 of  genocide, slavery (including the freedom trail and underground rail-
 road), STATEN ISLAND'S SANDY GROUND COMMUNITY, THE  OLDEST  CONTINUOUSLY
 INHABITED FREE BLACK SETTLEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, the Holocaust, and
 the  mass  starvation in Ireland from 1845 to 1850, to be maintained and
 followed in all the schools of the state. The boards  of  education  and
 trustees  of  the several cities and school districts of the state shall
 require instruction to  be  given  in  such  courses,  by  the  teachers
 employed in the schools therein. All pupils attending such schools, over
 the age of eight years, shall attend upon such instruction.
   Similar  courses  of instruction shall be prescribed and maintained in
 private schools in the state, and all pupils in such schools over  eight
 years  of age shall attend upon such courses. If such courses are not so
 established and maintained in a private school, attendance upon instruc-
 tion in such school shall not  be  deemed  substantially  equivalent  to
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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