Assembly Bill A7056

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to student class size in public schools

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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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2023-A7056 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7235
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3204-A, Ed L

2023-A7056 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to student class size in public schools in school districts located outside of a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants; requires such districts to develop a plan to reduce actual class sizes beginning September two thousand twenty-three.

2023-A7056 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7056
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to student class size  in
   public schools
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3204-A
 to read as follows:
   § 3204-A. STUDENT CLASS SIZE IN PUBLIC  SCHOOLS.  1.  (A)  ALL  SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS  LOCATED  OUTSIDE OF A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION
 OR MORE INHABITANTS SHALL ESTABLISH A PLAN, TO BE DEVELOPED  IN  COLLAB-
 ORATION  WITH  THE  SUPERINTENDENT  AND THE PRESIDENT OF EACH COLLECTIVE
 BARGAINING UNIT REPRESENTING THE TEACHERS, OTHER  CLASSROOM  STAFF,  AND
 THE  BUILDING  LEVEL  ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF, AND SUBMITTED TO THE COMMIS-
 SIONER FOR APPROVAL, TO REDUCE ACTUAL CLASS  SIZES  BEGINNING  SEPTEMBER
 TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-THREE AND TO BE ACHIEVED BY SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-EIGHT FOR ALL CLASSES, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF  PHYSICAL  EDUCATION
 AND PERFORMING GROUPS, AS FOLLOWS:
   (I)  KINDERGARTEN-THIRD GRADE TO HAVE NO MORE THAN TWENTY STUDENTS PER
 CLASS;
   (II) FOURTH-EIGHTH GRADE TO HAVE NO MORE  THAN  TWENTY-THREE  STUDENTS
 PER CLASS; AND
   (III) HIGH SCHOOL TO HAVE NO MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE STUDENTS PER CLASS.
   (B)  PHYSICAL  EDUCATION AND PERFORMING GROUPS SHALL HAVE NO MORE THAN
 FORTY STUDENTS PER CLASS AT ALL LEVELS. EACH YEAR OF THE PLAN, AN  ADDI-
 TIONAL  TWENTY  PERCENT  OF  THE CLASSROOMS, EXCLUDING SPECIAL EDUCATION
 CLASSES, SHALL BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE  CLASS  SIZE  TARGETS  PROVIDED
 THAT  ALL  SCHOOL DISTRICTS SHALL BE IN FULL COMPLIANCE BY THE COMMENCE-
 MENT OF THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-EIGHT--TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-NINE  SCHOOL
 YEAR AND ALL CLASSES SHALL MAINTAIN THE TARGET CLASS SIZE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11114-01-3
 A. 7056                             2
              

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