S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8373
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
October 20, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to disallowing an appli-
cation for a charter school to be approved if a school district is
under the supervision of a state monitor or fiscal monitor
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 2 of section 2852 of
the education law, as amended by section 2 of part D2 of chapter 57 of
the laws of 2007, are amended to read as follows:
(c) granting the application is likely to improve student learning and
achievement and materially further the purposes set out in subdivision
two of section twenty-eight hundred fifty of this article; [and]
(d) in a school district where the total enrollment of resident
students attending charter schools in the base year is greater than five
percent of the total public school enrollment of the school district in
the base year (i) granting the application would have a significant
educational benefit to the students expected to attend the proposed
charter school or (ii) the school district in which the charter school
will be located consents to such application; AND
(E) A STATE MONITOR OR FISCAL MONITOR IS NOT OPERATING IN SUCH SCHOOL
DISTRICT.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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