Assembly Bill A9679

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the cumulative grade point average admission requirement for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A9679 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง210-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A3917
2019-2020: A4538

2015-A9679 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the cumulative grade point average admission requirement for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs.

2015-A9679 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9679

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 29, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the  cumulative  grade
  point  average  admission  requirement  for graduate-level teacher and
  educational leader programs

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

  Section  1.  Section 210-a of the education law, as added by section 1
of subpart B of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
read as follows:
  S 210-a. Admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and  educa-
tional  leader  programs.  Each institution registered by the department
with graduate-level teacher and leader education  programs  shall  adopt
rigorous  selection criteria geared to predicting a candidate's academic
success in its program, including but not limited to, a minimum score on
the graduate record examination or a substantially equivalent  admission
examination,  as  determined  by  the  institution, and achievement of a
MINIMUM cumulative grade point average [of 3.0 or higher] in the  candi-
date's  undergraduate  program.    Each  program may exempt no more than
fifteen percent of any incoming class of students  from  such  selection
criteria set forth in this section based on a student's demonstration of
potential  to  positively contribute to the teaching profession or other
extenuating circumstances pursuant to the regulations of the commission-
er. A program shall report to the  department  the  number  of  students
admitted  pursuant to such exemption and the selection criteria used for
such exemptions.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14711-01-6

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