Assembly Bill A5570

2021-2022 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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  • 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-A5570 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2590-a & 2590-h, add §2590-b-1, Ed L; add §21-974.1, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8437
2023-2024: A2060

2021-A5570 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the chancellor of the city district to control and operate certain specialized high schools in the city of New York; directs each school district in the city of New York to provide at least one district gifted and talented program for kindergarten through fifth grade public school students.

2021-A5570 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5570
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- 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; and to amend the  administrative
   code  of  the  city  of New York, in relation to directing each school
   district in the city of New York to  provide  at  least  one  district
   gifted  and  talented  program  for  kindergarten  through fifth grade
   public school students
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 2590-a of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
   11. SPECIALIZED HIGH SCHOOL ADMISSIONS  TEST.  THE  TERM  "SPECIALIZED
 HIGH  SCHOOL  ADMISSIONS TEST" SHALL MEAN THE COMPETITIVE, OBJECTIVE AND
 SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT EXAMINATION REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION TO SPECIALIZED
 HIGH SCHOOLS PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED  NINETY-G  OF  THIS
 ARTICLE AS IN EFFECT PRIOR TO MARCH THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINE-
 TY-SEVEN.
   § 2. 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.
   (I) The [special] SPECIALIZED high schools shall include:
   (A) 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 FOR AMERICAN STUDIES AT LEHMAN COLLEGE, QUEENS
 HIGH  SCHOOL  FOR  SCIENCES AT YORK COLLEGE, AND STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL
 HIGH SCHOOL;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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