Senate Bill S6991

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher 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-S6991 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §210-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8776
2019-2020: S7118
2021-2022: S6351

2023-S6991 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs.

2023-S6991 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6991 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6991
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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 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 separately amended
 by chapters 620 and 626 of the laws of  2021,  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, achievement of a
 cumulative grade point average of  3.0  or  higher  in  the  candidate's
 undergraduate  program  OR  DEEMED  QUALIFIED  BY  TEACHER EDUCATION AND
 EDUCATIONAL LEADER FACULTY TO SATISFY ALTERNATIVE  CRITERIA,  INCLUDING,
 BUT  NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING: 3.0 GRADE POINT AVERAGE IN THE MAJOR
 OR IN THE LAST TWO YEARS OF COLLEGE OR IN A GRADUATE DEGREE  PROGRAM  OR
 GRADUATE-LEVEL  COURSES  TAKEN  BEFORE  MATRICULATION  INTO  A  GRADUATE
 PROGRAM; OR, STRENGTH OF LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATIONS FROM QUALIFIED INDI-
 VIDUALS, NUMBER OF LANGUAGES SPOKEN, STRENGTH OF  A  PERSONAL  INTERVIEW
 AND  QUALITY  OF  A  WRITING SAMPLE. Each program may exempt up to fifty
 percent of any incoming class of students from such  selection  criteria
 set  forth  in this section based on a student's demonstration of poten-
 tial to positively contribute to the teaching profession or other exten-
 uating 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.
                                                            LBD09544-01-3

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