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                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 8, 2015
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Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to residency requirements
  for charter schools

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  2 of section 2854 of the
education law, as amended by chapter 101 of the laws of 2010, is amended
to read as follows:
  (b) Any child who is qualified under the laws of this state for admis-
sion to a public school is qualified for admission to a charter  school,
PROVIDED THAT SUCH CHILD LIVES IN THE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT IN WHICH THE
CHARTER  SCHOOL  IS  LOCATED.  Applications  for  admission to a charter
school shall be submitted on a uniform application form created  by  the
department  and shall be made available by a charter school in languages
predominately spoken in the community in which such  charter  school  is
located.  The  school  shall  enroll each eligible student who submits a
timely application by the first day  of  April  each  year,  unless  the
number of applications exceeds the capacity of the grade level or build-
ing.  In such cases, students shall be accepted from among applicants by
a random selection process, provided, however, that an enrollment  pref-
erence  shall  be  provided to pupils returning to the charter school in
the second or any subsequent year of operation [and pupils  residing  in
the  school  district  in  which  the  charter  school  is located], and
siblings of pupils already enrolled in the charter school.  The  commis-
sioner  shall establish regulations to require that the random selection
process conducted pursuant to this paragraph be performed in a transpar-
ent and equitable manner and to require that the time and place  of  the
random  selection  process be publicized in a manner consistent with the
requirements of section one hundred four of the public officers law  and
be  open to the public. For the purposes of this paragraph and paragraph

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(a) of this subdivision, the school district in which the charter school
is located shall mean, for the city school district of the city  of  New
York, the community district in which the charter school is located.
  S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.