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Assembly Bill A8373

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Disallows an application for a charter school to be approved if a state monitor or fiscal monitor is not operating in such school district

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2021-A8373 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2852, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A1986
2025-2026: A4833

2021-A8373 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Disallows an application for a charter school to be approved if a state monitor or fiscal monitor is not operating in such school district.

2021-A8373 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8373
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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.
                                                            LBD13072-02-1

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