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                                 6379--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 20, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BARRON -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on  Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
  as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to admission to a special
  high school in the city school district in a city having a  population
  of one million or more

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the  education  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  345  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
follows:
  4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five  hundred  ninety-i
of  this  article, maintain such jurisdiction over city-wide educational
policies governing the special, academic,  vocational,  and  other  high
schools  authorized  by  this article [before the effective date of this
section] as the respective community district education  councils  main-
tain  over  the  schools  within  their jurisdiction, which shall not be
construed to require or authorize  the  day-to-day  supervision  or  the
administration  of  the  operations of such schools.  PROVIDED, FURTHER,
THE CITY BOARD SHALL ESTABLISH PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS FOR ADMISSION TO
THE SPECIAL HIGH SCHOOLS OF THE CITY DISTRICT, WHICH  SHALL  CONSIST  OF
MULTIPLE MEASURES OF STUDENT MERIT INCLUDING THE GRADE POINT AVERAGES OF
APPLICANTS,  CULMINATED  STUDENT  PORTFOLIO, TEACHER RECOMMENDATIONS AND
SUCH OTHER FACTORS AS THE CITY BOARD SHALL DETERMINE TO BE NECESSARY.
  S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as added by
chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
  4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five  hundred  ninety-i
of  this article, maintain such jurisdiction over policies governing the
special, academic, vocational and other high schools authorized by  this
article  [before  the  effective date of this section] as the respective
community boards maintain over the schools  within  their  jurisdiction,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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which  shall  not  be  construed  to require or authorize the day-to-day
supervision or the administration of the  operations  of  such  schools.
PROVIDED,  FURTHER, THE CITY BOARD SHALL ESTABLISH PROCEDURES AND STAND-
ARDS  FOR  ADMISSION  TO  THE SPECIAL HIGH SCHOOLS OF THE CITY DISTRICT,
WHICH SHALL CONSIST OF MULTIPLE MEASURES OF STUDENT MERIT INCLUDING  THE
GRADE POINT AVERAGES OF APPLICANTS, CULMINATED STUDENT PORTFOLIO, TEACH-
ER RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUCH OTHER FACTORS AS THE CITY BOARD SHALL DETER-
MINE TO BE NECESSARY.
  S 3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
law,  as  amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read
as follows:
  (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The  special  high  schools
shall include the present schools known as:
  The  Bronx  High  School  of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn
Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School  of  Music  and
the  Arts  in  the  borough  of Manhattan, and such [further] ADDITIONAL
schools which the city board  may  designate  from  time  to  time.  The
special  schools  shall  be permitted to maintain a discovery program in
accordance with the law in effect on the date  preceding  the  effective
date  of  this  section[;  admissions  to  the  special schools shall be
conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
effective date of this section];
  S 4. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
law, as amended by chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  (b)  all  specialized  [senior] high schools. The special high schools
shall include the present schools known as:
  The Bronx High School of Science,  Stuyvesant  High  School,  Brooklyn
Technical  High  School,  Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and
the Arts in the borough of  Manhattan,  and  such  [further]  ADDITIONAL
schools  which  the  city  board  may  designate  from time to time. The
special schools shall be permitted to maintain a  discovery  program  in
accordance  with  the  law in effect on the date preceding the effective
date of this section[;  admissions  to  the  special  schools  shall  be
conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the
effective date of this section];
  S  5. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law; provided that  the  amend-
ments  to  subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, made by
sections one and two of this act, shall apply  to  the  Stuyvesant  high
school,  the  Bronx  high school of science, the Brooklyn technical high
school, the Staten Island technical high school, the Queens high  school
for  the  sciences  at  York  college,  the high school for mathematics,
science and engineering at City college, the high  school  for  American
studies at Lehman college, the Brooklyn Latin school, and all additional
schools  that  the board of education of the city school district of the
city of New York designates as special high schools, not  including  the
Fiorello  H.  LaGuardia  high  school  of  music and the arts; provided,
further, that the amendments to subdivision  4  of  section  2590-g  and
paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education law
made by sections one and three of this act shall be subject to the expi-
ration and reversion of such sections pursuant to section 34 of  chapter
91  of  the laws of 2002, as amended and subdivision 12 of section 17 of
chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, as amended respectively when upon  such
date  the  provisions  of  sections  two and four of this act shall take
effect.