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Senate Bill S4756

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Directs the commissioner of education for the state of New York to revamp the structure of school districts statewide; and to repeal certain provisions of the education law relating thereto

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2021-S4756 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education
Laws Affected:
Rpld Title II Arts 33, 35, 37, 39, 51, 52 & 53, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S5226
2015-2016: S2621
2017-2018: S2345
2019-2020: S4438
2023-2024: S5752
2025-2026: S4171

2021-S4756 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of education for the state of New York to revamp the structure of school districts statewide creating one school district per county.

2021-S4756 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4756 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4756
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 10, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT directing the commissioner of education for the state of New York
   to revamp the structure of school  districts  statewide  creating  one
   school  district  per  county; and to repeal certain provisions of the
   education law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Legislative  findings  and declaration. The legislature
 hereby finds and declares that New York  state  spends  more  money  per
 student  than  any  other state in the nation, but ranks thirty-ninth in
 high school graduation rates. Only seventy-three percent of  New  York's
 students  graduate  from  high  school and only thirty-seven percent are
 college ready. The legislature finds that  New  York  students  are  not
 adequately  prepared  to  compete in the global economy and that changes
 must be made to the education system in order to reverse  these  statis-
 tics and prepare students to compete in the global economy. The legisla-
 ture  also  finds  and  declares that New York has struggled for several
 decades with the ongoing process of  reorganizing  our  school  district
 system  in  a  way  that  provides a solution to the negative effects of
 declining school enrollment, broadens the scope  of  program  offerings,
 facilitates  optimum class scheduling, increases professional resources,
 and alleviates heavy tax burdens. The legislature therefore directs  the
 commissioner of education to reorganize the school districts in a manner
 that  adequately  addresses  the  shortcomings  of the current education
 system and prepares each and every student to excel  in  today's  global
 economy.
   §  2.  The  commissioner of the New York state department of education
 shall establish and implement a new  school  district  system  statewide
 consisting  of  one  school  district  per county in each of the state's
 sixty-two counties.  The  resulting  sixty-two  school  districts  shall

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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