NY State Senate Bill 2021-S1926

Senate Bill S1926

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes interventions for children with dyslexia or other phonological learning differences or disabilities

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Jan 05, 2022	referred to disabilities
Jan 16, 2021	referred to disabilities

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2021-S1926 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A556
Current Committee:: Senate Disabilities
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Add §4407-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S5608, A7210
2023-2024: S1038, A460

2021-S1926 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires each school district to provide interventions and special curricula for children with dyslexia or other phonological learning differences or disabilities.

2021-S1926 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S1926

SPONSOR: JACKSON
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to curricula for students
identified as dyslexic or as having any other phonological learning
difference or disability

 
PURPOSE:

This bill sets forth specific curricula requirements for the teaching of
students with dyslexia or other related phonological disabilities or
differences.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the Education Law by adding a new section 4407-a that
requires that the board of education or trustees of each school district
provide intervention services for students identified to have dyslexia
or a related phonological difference or disability. It also sets the

requirements for the curricula a school adopts and requires each school
to inform parents about the services given to their child and requires
each school district to submit an annual report to the Department of
Education and Board of Regents. This report must include information on
their curriculum and invention services.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

One in five students has dyslexia or another phonemic awareness issue
that requires them to learn to read through a directed multi-sensory
sequential phonics or Orton-Gillingham approach. The current education
system teaches reading with a balanced literacy approach, which is
essentially the whole language by another name and ineffective at teach-
ing reading to the roughly 20% of students who have dyslexia or another
phonemic based learning difference. This bill will require schools to
give those students who need specialized instruction in reading the
resources they need to read comprehensively and effectively. This bill
lays out specific guidelines for the instruction of students with dysle-
xia. It also requires that schools inform parents of the intervention
services their student is receiving. This allows parents to ensure their
child is being given the education that they are entitled to.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019-2020: S.5608 - Referred to Education/A.7210 - Referred to Education

 
STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S1926 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1926
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. JACKSON, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to curricula for students
   identified as dyslexic or as having any  other  phonological  learning
   difference or disability

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 4407-a
 to read as follows:
   § 4407-A. SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN  WITH
 DYSLEXIA OR OTHER PHONOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES OR DISABILITIES. 1. THE BOARD
 OF  EDUCATION  OR  TRUSTEES OF EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL PROVIDE INTER-
 VENTION SERVICES FOR ANY STUDENT WHO IS IDENTIFIED  AS  DYSLEXIC  OR  AS
 HAVING  ANY  OTHER  PHONOLOGICAL LEARNING DIFFERENCE OR DISABILITY. SUCH
 INTERVENTION SERVICES SHALL INCLUDE A MULTI-SENSORY SEQUENTIAL  PHONICS-
 BASED CURRICULUM, WHICH SHALL BE TAUGHT IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER SPECIAL
 INSTRUCTION.
   2.  CURRICULA  ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION
 SHALL:
   A. INCLUDE EXPLICIT AND DIRECT INSTRUCTION THAT IS SYSTEMATIC, SEQUEN-
 TIAL, CUMULATIVE, AND FOLLOWS A LOGICAL PLAN OF PRESENTING THE ALPHABET-
 IC PRINCIPLE THAT TARGETS THE SPECIFIC NEEDS  OF  EACH  STUDENT  WITHOUT
 PRESUMING ANY PRIOR SKILLS OR KNOWLEDGE;
   B.  INCLUDE  MEANING-BASED INSTRUCTION DIRECTED AT PURPOSEFUL READING,
 WITH EMPHASIS ON STUDENT COMPREHENSION; AND
   C. BE STRUCTURED TO PROVIDE INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION  TAILORED  TO  EACH
 STUDENT, OR TO A SMALL GROUP SETTING OF TEN STUDENTS OR LESS.
   3.  THE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION  OR TRUSTEES SHALL INFORM EACH STUDENT'S
 PARENT OR PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATION OF THE INTERVENTION SERVICES BEING
 IMPLEMENTED UNDER THIS SECTION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02200-01-1

 S. 1926                             2
 
   4. EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL PROVIDE THE  DEPARTMENT  AND  REGENTS  A
 DETAILED  REPORT ON ITS CURRICULUM AND INTERVENTION SERVICES ESTABLISHED
 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION BY THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF JULY ANNUALLY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Sponsored By

Robert Jackson

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Disabilities Committee

co-Sponsors

Alessandra Biaggi

Neil D. Breslin

Cordell Cleare

Diane J. Savino

2021-S1926 (ACTIVE) - Details

2021-S1926 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S1926 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1926 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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