S05805 Summary

• Enacts the "Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children" as Article 66 of New York Education Law to remove educational barriers for children of active duty military families who frequently relocate.

• Requires receiving schools to accept unofficial educational records and enroll military children based on their grade level from sending schools, with official records to follow within ten days.

• Mandates receiving schools initially honor course placements (including honors, AP, vocational programs) and educational program placements from sending schools, with flexibility to waive course prerequisites.

• Provides military families with special protections including thirty days to obtain required immunizations, additional excused absences for military family events, prohibition of local tuition charges for children in non-custodial care, and waiver of specific graduation course requirements if comparable coursework completed elsewhere.

• Establishes an Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children with voting representatives (compact commissioners) from member states to promulgate rules, resolve disputes, and ensure compliance with compact provisions once enacted by at least ten states.