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NY A04930
Bill
Status
2/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Harry Bronson
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AI Summary
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Creates an adult high school workforce development demonstration project in Rochester for adults over 21 who lack a high school diploma, combining academic coursework with career credentialing and industry certifications
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Requires the program to follow New York state learning standards with 22 credit hours (108 hours per credit) and provide face-to-face classroom instruction, life coaching, and wraparound services including childcare, transportation, housing referrals, and mental health services at no cost to learners
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Establishes the program as a nonprofit nonpublic school operated by private entities, with each location limited to 350 adult learners maximum
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Addresses Rochester's approximately 37,000 working-age adults without high school diplomas and the state's estimated 1.9 million adults lacking diplomas, with the goal of reducing poverty through workforce transition
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Sets a minimum 5-year demonstration period, after which the department may make the program permanent and expand it to other regions of the state
Legislative Description
Creates an adult high school workforce development demonstration project in Rochester; defines "adult high school workforce development demonstration project" or "program" to mean a private or independent high school registered by the department which provides adult learners with an appropriate academic environment, career credentialing programs and access to wraparound services provided by the operator or any entity partnered which such operator to address barriers to enable adult learners to pursue and obtain, subject to satisfactory completion of the requirements set forth within this article, a high school diploma.
Last Action
referred to education
1/7/2026