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Assembly Bill A9365

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Defines academic excellence relating to the New York state masters-in-education teacher incentive scholarship program

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2025-A9365 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §669-f, Ed L

2025-A9365 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Defines academic excellence relating to the New York state masters-in-education teacher incentive scholarship program as having a grade point average of three and one half or more on a four point scale.

2025-A9365 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9365
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to defining academic
   excellence relating to the New York state masters-in-education teacher
   incentive scholarship program

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 669-f of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 516 of the laws  of  2025,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Eligibility. Students who are matriculated in an approved master's
 degree in education program at a New York state college, as  defined  in
 subdivision  two  of section six hundred one of this title, leading to a
 career as a teacher in public elementary or secondary education shall be
 eligible for an award under this section, provided  the  applicant:  (a)
 earned an undergraduate degree from a college located in New York state;
 (b)  was  a  New  York  state  resident while earning such undergraduate
 degree; (c) achieved [academic  excellence]  A  CUMULATIVE  GRADE  POINT
 AVERAGE OF THREE AND A HALF OR HIGHER ON A FOUR POINT SCALE as an under-
 graduate  student[,  as  defined by the corporation in regulation] OR IN
 THEIR FIRST SEMESTER IN AN APPROVED MASTER'S DEGREE IN EDUCATION PROGRAM
 AT A NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION; (d)  enrolls
 OR  IS  ENROLLED  in  full-time  study in an approved master's degree in
 education program at a New York state college, as defined in subdivision
 two of section six hundred one of this title, leading to a career  as  a
 teacher  in  public  elementary  or  secondary  education;  (e)  signs a
 contract with the corporation agreeing to teach in a  classroom  setting
 on  a full-time basis for five years in a school located within New York
 state providing public elementary or secondary education  recognized  by
 the board of regents or the university of the state of New York, includ-
 ing  charter  schools  authorized  pursuant to article fifty-six of this
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03273-02-5

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