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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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Assembly Bill A1861
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
NOLAN
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
2009-A1861 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Education
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยงยง2851 & 2852, Ed L
2009-A1861 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1861 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 12, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN, O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to charter schools THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2851 of the education law, as added by chapter 4 of the laws of 1998 and paragraph (a) as amended by section 6 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: 3. An applicant shall submit the application to a charter entity for approval. For purposes of this article, 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 population 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 REGENTS, FOR CHARTERS WHERE THE ORIGINAL CHARTER ENTITY WAS 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 consistent with this section, and the charter entity shall require that the parents or guardians of a majority of the students then enrolled in EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01392-01-9
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