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Assembly Bill A6710

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to applications for charter schools

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2023-A6710 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2292
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2852, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8028, S5978
2021-2022: A5116, S548
2025-2026: A6882, S522

2023-A6710 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requirements for applications for charter schools.

2023-A6710 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6710
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requirements  for
   applications for charter schools
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision  2  of  section  2852  of  the
 education  law,  as  added by section 2 of part D-2 of chapter 57 of the
 laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   (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] AND (ii) the school district OR IN A CITY  HAVING  A
 POPULATION  OF  ONE  MILLION  OR  MORE INHABITANTS, THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
 DISTRICT in which the charter school will be located  consents  to  such
 application.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04496-01-3

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