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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 21, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to granting  priority  to
   charter school applicants with a board of trustees and school adminis-
   trators that are at least fifty-one percent minority group members

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 9-a of section 2852 of  the  education  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows:
   (C-1)  FOR ANY CHARTER ISSUED OR REISSUED ON AND AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, THE BOARD OF REGENTS AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES  OF
 THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SHALL GRANT PRIORITY TO ANY APPLICANT
 THAT DEMONSTRATES THAT ITS CHARTER SCHOOL WILL BE MANAGED BY A BOARD  OF
 TRUSTEES  AND  SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS IN WHICH AT LEAST FIFTY-ONE PERCENT
 OF SUCH BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS ARE  MINORITY  GROUP
 MEMBERS  AS  SUCH  TERM IS DEFINED IN ARTICLE FIFTEEN-A OF THE EXECUTIVE
 LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05723-01-5