NY State Senate Bill 2025-S6725

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Mar 20, 2025	referred to education

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5450
Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Add §3641-c, Ed L

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the advanced coursework expansion incentive grant program to school districts who offer advanced courses to economically disadvantaged students.

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6725

SPONSOR: BAILEY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the
advanced coursework expansion incentive grant program

 
PURPOSE:

To create an incentive grant program aimed at expanding AP and other
nationally normed college credit-earning course work in high schools.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

The bill amends the education law by adding a new section to establish
the advanced coursework expansion incentive grant program. High schools
offering fewer than five advanced courses may apply for grants of $350
per economically disadvantaged student who completes a qualifying course
and exam. The funding will support the expansion of advanced courses,
including teacher training and necessary materials.

The bill also outlines the permissible uses of the grant.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Unfortunately, too many New York high schools do not have any Advanced
Placement courses for their students, and many others have very few
course options or far too few sections of those courses, leaving
students who are ready to take an AP course with little or no opportu-
nity. While other programs such as P-Tech can offer some students a
rigorous high school experience, these programs are not offered
universally and are expensive and difficult to scale. We believe that
providing an incentive to get low-income students enrolled in Advanced
Placement courses is easily scalable and is a bold, innovative, and more
affordable option.

New York has a long way to go to offer these opportunities to more
students. In the class of 2024, only 46.5% of students in New York state
took an AP Exam during high school. Additionally, we still have work to
do to ensure equitable access to AP courses and exams. During the 2023-
2024 school year, only 10.4% and 24.1% of public-school AP examinees
were Black and Hispanic, respectively, while 56.8% were White or Asian.
These gaps have narrowed over the past five years, but greater access to
AP courses is essential for New York to meet its postsecondary goals.
Furthermore, while 54.5% of high school students in New York qualify for
free and reduced lunch, only 42.8% of AP test takers qualified in 2024.

We know from recent research the college benefits associated with AP
Exam taking, which is often referred to as the Power of One AP. The
students who complete one AP course and the accompanying exam are three
percentage points more likely to graduate from college within four
years, while students who take an AP Exam and score three or higher were
six percentage points more likely to graduate from college within four
years. The biggest boost in first-year college GPAs - as well as college
degree completion - is associated with taking at least one AP Exam.
Given these results, ensuring students complete at least one AP course
is likely to have the largest return on college outcomes.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

TBD.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
The first of July next succeeding the date on which it becomes a law.

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6725
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- 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  establishing  the
   advanced coursework expansion incentive grant program
 
   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 3641-c
 to read as follows:
   § 3641-C. ADVANCED COURSEWORK EXPANSION INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM.    1.
 (A)  THE  COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH THE ADVANCED COURSEWORK EXPANSION
 INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOLS  IN  THE  STATE.    ANY  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT  WHICH  CURRENTLY  OFFERS  LESS  THAN FIVE ADVANCED COURSES MAY
 APPLY TO RECEIVE A  GRANT  UNDER  SUCH  PROGRAM;  PROVIDED  SUCH  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT EXPANDS COLLEGE CREDIT EARNING COURSES WITH A NATIONALLY NORMED
 COLLEGE  CREDIT  EARNING PROGRAM INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADVANCED
 PLACEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE COURSEWORK AND ENROLLS ECONOM-
 ICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS WHO COMPLETE A COURSE AND SIT FOR THE EXAM
 THAT PROVIDES COLLEGE CREDIT UPON COMPLETION OF SUCH COURSE.   A  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT  SHALL RECEIVE A THREE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLAR GRANT FOR EACH SUCH
 STUDENT IN THE  SCHOOL  YEAR  FOLLOWING  A  STUDENT'S  COURSE  AND  EXAM
 COMPLETION.  A SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL ONLY RECEIVE ONE GRANT PER STUDENT.
   (B)  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION, "ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED
 STUDENTS" SHALL MEAN THOSE WHO PARTICIPATE IN, OR WHOSE  FAMILY  PARTIC-
 IPATES  IN,  ECONOMIC  ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, SUCH AS THE FREE OR REDUCED-
 PRICE LUNCH PROGRAMS, SOCIAL  SECURITY  INSURANCE  (SSI),  FOOD  STAMPS,
 FOSTER CARE, REFUGEE ASSISTANCE (MONETARY OR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE), EARNED
 INCOME  TAX CREDIT (EITC), HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (HEAP), SAFETY
 NET ASSISTANCE (SNA),  BUREAU  OF  INDIAN  AFFAIRS  ASSISTANCE  PROGRAMS
 (BIA), OR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES (TANF). IF ONE STUDENT
 IN  A  FAMILY  IS IDENTIFIED AS ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, ALL STUDENTS
 FROM THAT HOUSEHOLD MAY BE IDENTIFIED AS ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06621-01-5

 S. 6725                             2
 
   2. GRANTS AWARDED UNDER THE ADVANCED  COURSEWORK  EXPANSION  INCENTIVE
 GRANT PROGRAM SHALL BE USED TO CONTINUE THE EXPANSION OF ADVANCED COURSE
 OFFERINGS.  IN  CREATING A NEW COLLEGE CREDIT EARNING COURSE OR COURSES,
 THE SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY EXPEND FUNDING FROM THE GRANT PROGRAM TO PAY FOR
 TEACHER  TRAINING AND ONGOING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, COURSE MATERIALS
 NECESSARY FOR THE COURSEWORK INCLUDING, BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO  TEXTBOOKS,
 ONLINE  RESOURCES,  LAB  EQUIPMENT,  STUDENT  SUPPORT  SERVICES  TO HELP
 STUDENTS ACHIEVE COLLEGE CREDIT, AND OTHER SUCH MATERIALS  AND  SERVICES
 AS  DEEMED  NECESSARY TO CREATE THE NEW COURSE OR COURSES BY THE COMMIS-
 SIONER.  FUNDING SHALL BE USED FOR IN CLASSROOM  COURSES  UNLESS  IT  IS
 DETERMINED  BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER THAT
 AN ONLINE OR BLENDED LEARNING COURSE IS THE ONLY OPTION.  NO FUNDS  FROM
 THIS  GRANT PROGRAM MAY BE USED TO ESTABLISH NEW DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES
 WITH NONPROFIT COLLEGES OR UNIVERSITIES.
   3. SUBJECT TO APPROPRIATION, GRANTS SHALL BE AWARDED  BY  THE  COMMIS-
 SIONER  TO  ANY  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  DESCRIBED  IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
 SECTION THAT REQUESTS SUCH FUNDING AND HAS  AT  LEAST  TEN  ECONOMICALLY
 DISADVANTAGED  STUDENTS COMPLETE THE REQUIRED COURSEWORK AND EXAM IN THE
 PRIOR YEAR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.

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Senate Bill S6725

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Jamaal T. Bailey

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6725 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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