Senate Bill S5221

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to providing that all schools have a multi-cultural curriculum

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee

  • 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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2023-S5221 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §804-e, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S7335
2011-2012: S1148
2013-2014: S2834
2015-2016: S1571
2017-2018: S3111
2019-2020: S4382
2021-2022: S4655

2023-S5221 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that all schools shall have a multi-cultural curriculum.

2023-S5221 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5221 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5221
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a multi-cul-
   tural curriculum
 
   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 804-e
 to read as follows:
   § 804-E. MULTI-CULTURAL CURRICULUM. 1. ALL SCHOOLS INCLUDING ELEMENTA-
 RY SCHOOLS, JUNIOR  HIGH  SCHOOLS  AND  SENIOR  HIGH  SCHOOLS  SHALL  BE
 REQUIRED  TO TEACH A MULTI-CULTURAL CURRICULUM WHICH SHALL BE SET OUT IN
 RULES AND REGULATIONS TO BE PROMULGATED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   2. IN FORMULATING THE  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  FOR  A  MULTI-CULTURAL
 CURRICULUM  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL ALLOW FOR AND SHALL IMPLEMENT RULES
 AND REGULATIONS WHICH CONSIDER THE DIFFERENCES IN THE CULTURAL  COMPOSI-
 TION  OF EACH SCHOOL AND THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ALLOW AND DIRECT SCHOOLS
 TO DO RESEARCH AND OBSERVATION ON THEIR OWN STUDENT  BODY  IN  ORDER  TO
 PARTICULARIZE  MULTI-CULTURAL  EDUCATION  TO  FIT SUCH EDUCATION TO SUCH
 SCHOOL.
   3. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ALSO PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS  WHICH
 SHALL SET OUT A TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM IN ORDER TO TRAIN TEACHERS AND
 EDUCATORS  TO TEACH AND INTERACT WITH STUDENTS OF DIFFERENT CULTURAL AND
 ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS.
   § 2.   This act shall take effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07225-01-3

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