Assembly Actions -
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Mar 11, 2010 |
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Assembly Bill A10211
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
KOON
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Joan Christensen
Ginny Fields
John McEneny
multi-Sponsors
Robert Reilly
2009-A10211 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S1473
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Education
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§2851, 2852 & 2853, Ed L
2009-A10211 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:A10211 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to approval of applications of charter schools PURPOSE: To require approval of a charter school by the district of location. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section one amends §2851(2) of the Education Law to add a new subdivision (y) requiring the school district where the charter school is located be included in charter school applications. Section two amends §2851(3) of the Education Law to specify that appli- cations to establish charter schools be submitted not only to the char- tering entity, but also to the Board of Education or in New York City, to the Chancellor for approval. Amends §2851(4) of the Education Law to clarify that charters issued prior to April 1, 2008 can be renewed sole- ly through the charter entity which originally approved the charter. Section three amends §2852(1) of the Education Law. Requires a school board of the district of location or the Chancellor to approve a charter application before a charter entity can act on it. Requires a school district to act on a charter school application that is received prior to July 1st on or before October 1st. Requires the school board or the Chancellor to forward, within 7 days of approving a charter application, the application to the appropriate charter entity and a specified form
2009-A10211 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10211 I N A S S E M B L Y March 11, 2010 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KOON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to approval of applica- tions of charter schools THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2851 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph (y) to read as follows: (Y) THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE THE CHARTER SCHOOL IS TO BE LOCATED. S 2. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 2851 of the education law, as added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998, paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 as amended by section 6 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2008, are amended to read as follows: 3. An applicant shall submit the application to [a] THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND IN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE TO THE CHANCELLOR, WHERE THE CHARTER SCHOOL WILL BE LOCATED AND THE charter entity for approval. For purposes of this arti- cle, a charter entity shall be: (a) The board of education of a school district eligible for an appor- tionment of aid under subdivision four of section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter, provided that a board of education shall not approve an application for a school to be operated outside the school district's geographic boundaries and further provided that in a city having a popu- lation of one million or more, the chancellor of any such city school district shall be the charter entity established by this paragraph; (b) The board of trustees of the state university of New York; or (c) The board of regents. The board of regents shall be the only entity authorized to issue a charter pursuant to this article. Notwithstanding any provision of this subdivision to the contrary, an application for the conversion of an existing public school to a charter school shall be submitted to, and may only be approved by, the charter entity set forth in paragraph (a) of this subdivision. Any such application for conversion shall be EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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