Relates to delaying the implementation of class size reduction plans and including additional exemptions to class size targets; provides such plans shall begin in September 2031 and be achieved by September 2036; adds gifted and talented schools and programs, screened admissions schools and programs, portfolio and specialized high schools and advanced placement classes; requires parents at each respective school be included on any discussions regarding class size exemptions.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7358
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CHANG -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to delaying the implemen-
tation of class size reduction plans and including additional
exemptions to class size targets
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Clauses (A) and (B) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph b of
subdivision 2 of section 211-d of the education law, clause (A) as
amended by chapter 86 of the laws of 2023 and clause (B) as amended by
chapter 556 of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
(A) In a city school district in a city having a population of one
million or more inhabitants such contract shall also include a plan,
which shall be developed in collaboration with the collective bargaining
units representing teachers and the principals beginning in September
two thousand twenty-two and signed off on by the chancellor and the
presidents of each bargaining unit, to reduce actual class sizes, begin-
ning September two thousand [twenty-three] THIRTY-ONE and to be achieved
by September two thousand [twenty-eight] THIRTY-SIX for all classes,
with the exception of physical education and performing groups, as
follows: (1) kindergarten-third grade to have no more than twenty
students per class; (2) fourth-eighth grade to have no more than twen-
ty-three students per class; and (3) high school to have no more than
twenty-five students per class. Physical education and performing groups
shall have no more than forty students per class at all levels. Each
year of the plan, an additional twenty percent of the classrooms in the
city school district, excluding special education classes, shall be in
compliance with the class size targets such that the city school
district is in full compliance by two thousand [twenty-eight] THIRTY-SIX
and all classes should maintain the target class size. The class size
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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