Senate Bill S5666

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the maximum percentage of students that can be exempted from the admission requirements 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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2021-S5666 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7490
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §210-a, Ed L

2021-S5666 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the percentage of students from any incoming class who can be exempted from the admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs from no more than fifteen percent to fifty percent.

2021-S5666 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S5666 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5666
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 15, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the maximum percentage
   of students that can be exempted from the admission  requirements  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 amended  by  chapter
 454 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   §  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
 cumulative  grade  point  average  of  3.0  or higher in the candidate's
 undergraduate program; provided, however, such graduate record  examina-
 tion or substantially equivalent admission examination requirement shall
 in  no  case  apply  to  certified teachers or school administrators who
 already hold a graduate degree. Each program may exempt  [no  more  than
 fifteen] UP TO FIFTY percent of any incoming class of students from such
 selection criteria set forth in this section based on a student's demon-
 stration  of  potential to positively contribute to the teaching profes-
 sion or other extenuating circumstances pursuant to the  regulations  of
 the commissioner. A program shall report to the department the number of
 students  admitted pursuant to such exemption and the selection criteria
 used for such exemptions.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09894-01-1

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