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Requires certain entities to stock opioid antagonists and to store naloxone nasal sprays with or adjacent to automated external defibrillator cabinets.
Requires certain entities to stock opioid antagonists and to store naloxone nasal sprays with or adjacent to automated external defibrillator cabinets.
Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and driver's education in the district where they reside.
Directs the commissioner to convene statewide and regional conventions to bring together underrepresented educators annually to discuss experiences, best practices, and afford for networking, mentorship opportunities, and support.
Authorizes the Holland central school district to establish an insurance reserve fund for any loss, claim, action or judgment for which such school district is authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance for the kinds of risks for which insurance is authorized.
Establishes the board of regents as the primary vetting and oversight authority of charter schools; requires all charter schools to be approved by a majority vote of the registered voters of the school district in which the charter school is proposed to operate.
Provides that reimbursement payable for grants and aid for nonpublic school children, the hiring of teachers and arts and music teachers shall be paid within twelve months of the education department's receipt of a complete application for such grant or aid.
Extends to ninety days the amount of time for the board of regents to approve and issue a charter that has been resubmitted by a charter entity.
Requires any public school located in a city with a population of one million or more to offer a remote learning option to all primary and secondary students when such public school is located in a county determined by the federal centers for disease control and prevention to have a substantial or high level of community transmission of any illness deemed by the federal centers for disease control and prevention to be an outbreak.
Requires boards of education to adopt written policies for reconsideration of school library materials following complaints regarding such materials; requires the commissioner of education to develop one or more model policies for school districts.
Requires instruction in arts and music education to be incorporated into curriculums for all public school students; requires school districts to ensure that appropriately certified teachers are providing such education; authorizes rules and regulations consistent with such provisions.
Requires instruction in arts and music education to be incorporated into curriculums for all public school students; requires school districts to ensure that appropriately certified teachers are providing such education; authorizes rules and regulations consistent with such provisions.
Provides that elections to fill an increased number of seats on a school board will be conducted at the first annual meeting after the meeting during which number of seats was increased.
Requires any state aid owed to a school district from a prior year adjustment be paid as part of the first state aid payment of the following school year following the notification of such payments.
Provides that elections to fill an increased number of seats on a school board will be conducted at the first annual meeting after the meeting during which number of seats was increased.
Adds BOCES to the list of entities that are authorized to establish a workers' compensation reserve fund.
Allows the president of the citywide council on high schools to participate in the selection of the members of the board of education elected by the community district education council presidents.
Permits the establishment of reserve funds for unanticipated costs relating to special education, provided that the amount in such fund shall not exceed four percent of the district's current school year budget.
Clarifies what buildings constitute an existing public school building for purposes of the location of charter schools by describing an existing public school building as being a building that is currently occupied or is unoccupied but designated for potential school use.
Limits the reimbursement rate paid by the city school district to a charter school for charter school facilities expansion in a city school district located in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants by changing "actual rental costs" to "reasonable rental costs"; defines "reasonable rental costs".
Clarifies that the writing requirement that is part of compulsory education includes cursive writing.
Relates to establishing a task force on safety in school transportation to review and promote such safety.
Allows parents of a child who has ever received services through an English as a second language program to serve as a member of the citywide council on English language learners and of the citywide council on high schools even if the child is no longer enrolled.
Relates to establishing a task force on safety in school transportation to review and promote such safety.
Provides for piggyback contracts for school transportation logistics vehicle drivers to provide pupil transportation.
Requires parents of a child who qualifies for admission to a public school building in good standing with the department to provide a justification and educational-based reasoning to the superintendent of such school building prior to submitting an application to admission at a charter school.
Prohibits discrimination of students on school property or at a school function based on religious attire, clothing or facial hair.
Allows parents or guardians of children classified as either physically handicapped or developmentally disabled to submit transportation requests to their school district by July 1st.
Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period.
Prohibits discrimination of students on school property or at a school function based on religious attire, clothing or facial hair.
Establishes a mandatory statewide, classroom-based water safety education program; provides that the commissioner of education shall work with New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance certified educators to develop and promulgate a statewide, age-appropriate, classroom-based water safety education guidance document; provides that within twenty-four months of the effective date of the bill, the department of education shall initiate statewide implementation of water safety education; provides that instruction shall be classroom-based and waterless and shall not require student access to aquatic facilities, swimming instruction, or in-water assessment.
Provides that the commissioner of education may promulgate rules and regulations for a health education curriculum to include menstrual disorders, including but not limited to, endometriosis.
Provides for the election of two Regents of the University of the State of New York
Provides that the commissioner of education may promulgate rules and regulations for a health education curriculum to include menstrual disorders, including but not limited to, endometriosis.
Relates to the computation of building aid for construction, reconstruction or modernizing of no more than one project by the Schenectady city school district.
Provides for the use of airway clearance devices in schools; provides for training for school employees.
Increases the state subsidy for school lunch meals based on the percentage of breakfast service, lunch service and reimbursable snack program food purchased from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors.
Implements requirements and guidelines to reduce chronic absenteeism including attendance reporting, attendance review teams, tiered strategies, early warning systems, and attendance policies.
Directs the commissioner of education, in consultation with the board of regents, to establish and develop a curriculum on healthy relationship building skills; provides that such curriculum shall be by grades and focus on different issues and understandings of healthy relationships.
Provides for the removal and other disciplinary action of part-time teaching assistants; provides for the procedure of such actions; authorizes suspension pending the determination of charges.
Specifies that teachers, teacher aides, and teacher assistants that work with children with a disability, and who are employed by schools commonly referred to as 4410 schools and 853 schools, shall be included in the excessive teacher turnover prevention program.
Directs the commissioner of education, in consultation with the office of fire prevention and control, to develop model curriculum related to fire science for use by public high schools and boards of cooperative educational services throughout the state.
Prohibits the use of timeout boxes, closets or other secluded physical enclosures for children in schools in the state; except for authorized limited use of timeout and physical restraint as prescribed in regulations.
Creates a single, streamlined process whereby a facility or program operating both a pre-kindergarten program and a daycare program may apply for and receive any certification, licensing, or other requirement otherwise necessary to operate a pre-kindergarten program or daycare program under the laws of the state.
Relates to transportation services for the school districts of the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers.
Requires training for teachers, administrators and instructors in the area of mental health response; requires office of mental health to assist in development of curriculum for training.
Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections in Orange County.
Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections in Orange County.
Establishes the New York state school resource officer program; provides for grants for school resource officers (Part A); relates to peace officers who are retired police officers employed by a school district as a school resource officer (Part B); allows retired police officers to be employed by a school district as a school safety officer, school security officer or any other substantially similar position for an annual salary of $50,000 or less to continue to receive their full retirement benefit (Part C).
Enacts the student suicide prevention act; requires the governing board or body of every local educational agency serving students in grades seven to twelve, to adopt policies, procedures and guidelines on student suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for students in such grades.
Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the presence of educator diversity in the state, state actions taken to promote educator diversity, and how the state can encourage new initiatives to enhance and promote educator diversity in New York; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the presence of educator diversity in the state, state actions taken to promote educator diversity, and how the state can encourage new initiatives to enhance and promote educator diversity in New York; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Permits the principal of any high school to allow any local fire department, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of fire department junior recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
Establishes a competitive emergency mapping grant program which will provide grants to school districts or boards of cooperative educational services to upgrade their floor plans, blueprints, schematics or other maps of their school interior, school grounds and road maps of the immediate surrounding area included in their building level emergency response plans.
Provides additional exemptions to school districts unable to meet standards for zero-emissions school buses, due to market availability or supporting infrastructure.
Authorizes education-related dual employment for employees of certain schools offering special education services; prohibits certain anti-competitive actions that would impact such schools.
Requires background checks and fingerprinting of certain construction contractors working in school facilities; requires the contractors to run such background checks.
Directs the commissioner of education to develop curriculum for firearm safety classes in schools; provides for schools to be able to provide firearm safety instruction which can be used to obtain a hunting license.
Authorizes high schools to include opioid overdose prevention and non-intravenous opioid antagonist administration as optional part of required health education courses; authorizes certain students to administer non-intravenous opioid antagonists.
Provides for automatic eligibility to teacher support and retention programs for teachers employed by certain schools receiving funding for the provision of special education.
Establishes the underrepresented teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain underrepresented certified teachers in schools which have an underrepresentation of underrepresented certified teachers; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution.
Establishes the bilingual teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain bilingual, certified teachers in schools with a bilingual teacher shortage; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution.
Directs the commissioner to convene statewide and regional conventions to bring together underrepresented educators annually to discuss experiences, best practices, and afford for networking, mentorship opportunities, and support.
Separates interscholastic athletic championships between public and non-public schools.
Prohibits children from being denied access to a free public education on account of perceived or actual citizenship or immigration status or the perceived or actual citizenship or immigration status of their parents or person in a parental relationship.
Prohibits the sale of foods containing synthetic color additives in schools except under certain circumstances off and away from the premises or on premises at least a half hour after the end of the school day.
Requires that nominating petitions for small city school district elections be submitted no later than thirty days prior to the election; provides for a ten-day period for objecting to any nominating petitions; outlines the duties of the clerk of the board of education in finalizing the ballot after the ten-day objection period; provides that certain provisions concerning the date of the drawing for the names on the ballot do not apply to small city school districts.
Permits the principal of any high school to allow any local fire department, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of fire department junior recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
Enacts the "student safety, parent notification, and transparency act" in relation to parent notification, documentation, review, and reporting required when physical restraint or force is used on a student.
Provides that schools need not provide special instruction to delinquent students whose violent behavior poses an unreasonable risk to teachers and students in special day schools or special school rooms; permits shared services in connection with the establishment of such special schools.
Adjusts the regional labor force cost index for the Hudson Valley region for the 2025--2026 school year and thereafter.
Provides that state mandates shall not be implemented in school districts after such district has passed a budget; provides that any such mandates shall be implemented in the following fiscal year.
Establishes school-based food pantries in high-need schools in the city school district of the city of New York; provides for funding from state sales and compensating use taxes imposed on receipts from the retail sale of hot and prepared food sold by supermarkets and grocery stores within the state.
Requires the installation of master key boxes for building access by law enforcement and emergency responders; requires they must meet the underwriters laboratories standard UL 1037.
Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma, formerly known as the general education development (GED) program, to the Excelsior diploma.
Relates to due process rights for non-public school students with special needs.
Relates to creating a committee to study ways to reduce the length of standardized tests and increase the test's transparency; directs the committee to submit a proposal to the board of regents.
Removes references to the electric school bus mandate; provides that there shall be no mandate requiring school districts to purchase, operate or maintain any certain type of school buses and that the superintendent of each school district shall have the sole authority to determine the types of school buses such school district will purchase, operate and maintain; repeals certain provisions of law relating to electric school buses.
Relates to requiring the board of regents to obtain legislative approval of any rule or regulation containing an unfunded mandate.
Enacts the "next-gen civics act" to provide education to students in grades nine through twelve on civic education; provides that such instruction shall include, but not be limited to, a hands-on, project-based curriculum where students shall apply what they learn through activities that include, but are not limited to, mock elections, community projects, and policy simulations.
Requires silent alarms to be installed in all school classrooms in a location readily accessible to teachers; defines "silent alarm".
Relates to authorizing Bible literacy courses in public schools; directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations establishing an elective course of studies in Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible to teach students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, mores, oratory, and public policy.
Extends the date by which school districts must purchase and solely operate and maintain zero-emission school buses; authorizes certain school districts to apply for and be granted an annual one-year extension for compliance with zero-emission school bus requirements until 2045.
Prohibits the use of most artificial intelligence in classrooms prior to high school except for AI used for diagnostic purposes or explicit instruction interventions for students with disabilities.
Requires school districts to collect and annually report to the department of education certain information regarding manifestation determination reviews (MDRs) conducted during the prior school year; requires certain disaggregated information to be publicly reported regarding MDRs.
Requires curriculum or instruction in Italian history and civic impact in all public school districts in the state.
Establishes a three-year pilot program to be known as the "learner engagement and attendance program of New York (LEAP-NY)" in certain school districts of the state.
Permits the Johnson City school district to create an insurance reserve fund.
Directs the commissioner of education to develop and maintain a publicly accessible statewide attendance and absenteeism dashboard to be posted publicly on the state education department's website.
Directs a study on the feasibility of adjusting the compulsory attendance age of minors attending full time instruction; requires report and recommendations on or before July 1, 2027.
Relates to the regional cost index for purposes of the calculation of total foundation aid; updates the regional cost index to better reflect the differences in cost of living across the state.
Relates to the assessment of extraordinary needs count for purposes of the apportionment of public moneys to school districts employing eight or more teachers; defines count of homeless children and children or youth in foster care.
Establishes a committee to conduct a survey of instruction on the history and civic impact of the September eleventh, two thousand one terrorist attacks and issue a report on such survey.
Establishes a committee to conduct a survey of instruction on Jewish heritage and issue a report on such survey.
Establishes a committee to conduct a survey of instruction on Italian American heritage and issue a report on such survey.
Establishes open enrollment schools; provides that nonresidents of a district, if otherwise eligible to enroll into a public school of this state are entitled to enroll into the school or schools of another district or city if the nonresident district's board of education has adopted an open enrollment policy and enrolling the nonresident pupil is consistent with such policy.
Requires public school students to take three semester-long financial literacy courses between sixth and twelfth grades.
Directs the regents to adopt rules to permit lifeguard certification training courses to satisfy required physical education credits.
Requires gambling be taught in health education classes for elementary, junior and senior high school students.
Enacts the "youth & teen internet safety and social media literacy act"; directs the commissioner of education to provide technical assistance to school districts for the development of curricula for such study of courses which shall be age appropriate and developed according to the needs and abilities of pupils at successive grade levels in order to provide awareness, skills, information, and support to aid in the safe usage of the internet, social media, and artificial intelligence.
Relates to the fingerprinting and background checks of providers of contract services to covered schools.
Relates to the release of student education records to juvenile detention facilities; provides that where a student has been directed to be held in a juvenile detention facility pursuant to a court order, the educational agency where such student attends school at the time of such direction shall, upon request of the juvenile detention facility where such student is held, disclose such educational records to educational program personnel at such facility without consent of the parent or eligible student under certain circumstances.
Clarifies the responsibility of school districts for certain temporary-resident preschool children with disabilities who are in foster care, are homeless or are in residential care.
Requires school districts to screen for gifted and talented students; provides the parents or guardians of such students the option to opt out of such screening.
Relates to retention of records relating to certain acts of alleged misconduct for the duration of the statute of limitations.
Directs the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations requiring the New York state public high school athletic association to establish a central committee, an executive committee, and state sport committees.
Requires school districts, public libraries, BOCES, county vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public schools to provide and maintain on-site opioid antagonists.
Requires the state to provide a certain type of opioid and fentanyl rescue kit to schools.
Requires the principal of any high school to allow any local trade union, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of trade union recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
Decreases the frequency of lock-down drills in schools; directs that such drills shall be implemented with a trauma-informed approach; permits parents to opt their children out of such drills.
Authorizes the city school district of the city of Salamanca to establish a reserve fund for federal impact aid in the event such aid is reduced.
Establishes a high school robotics grant program; provides funding to high schools for participation in robotics competitions; sets forth eligibility requirements; provides for the application and awards process.
Directs the state education commissioner to require public school districts to report on compliance with art education instruction requirements.
Requires daycare facilities to maintain evacuation and lockdown plans for children with disabilities during an emergency situation.
Requires that all special education students attending schools scheduled to be closed or to undergo a significant change be assigned to new schools prior to the implementation of the closing or change.
Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.
Allows the president of the citywide council on high schools to participate in the selection of the members of the board of education elected by the community district education council presidents.
Directs the state board of regents to develop or adopt financial literacy learning standards for students in grades four through eight; provides that all public, charter, and nonpublic high schools shall offer and students at such schools shall successfully complete a course in financial literacy; directs the trustees of the state university of New York, in consultation with faculty, student representatives and subject matter experts, to develop a comprehensive financial literacy course; directs the trustees of the city university of New York, in consultation with faculty, student representatives and subject matter experts, to develop a comprehensive financial literacy course.
Relates to lease terms for zero-emission school buses; permits leases of up to 12 years.
Requires schools to follow seizure action plans developed by health care providers of students diagnosed with a seizure disorder; requires schools to provide seizure awareness training to certain employees on the recognition of signs and symptoms of a seizure and the appropriate steps to be taken to respond to such symptoms.
Directs school districts to establish parent advisory councils on special education to advise on matters that pertain to the education and safety of students with disabilities, and meet regularly with school officials to participate in the planning, development, and evaluation of the school district's special education programs.
Authorizes certain school districts and their municipalities to sign a memorandum of understanding authorizing a one-time annual increase to the amount of school district expenditures funded by city funds to be excluded from the maintenance of effort calculation.
Requires the commissioner of education mandate schools donate unused food to local food banks and establish policies and procedures to effectuate such program.
Requires the education department, in consultation with the department of health, to develop and adopt a comprehensive fentanyl education, awareness, and recognition program for all public, charter, and private schools in the state.
Authorizes school districts to borrow against certain reserve funds, pursuant to a resolution adopted by the board of education of such school district.
Enacts "Stella's law"; requires a staff member certified in first aid, CPR, and the Heimlich maneuver to be present in school cafeterias during lunchtimes.
Relates to employment contracts between school bus workers and the department of education in a city with at least one million inhabitants.
Requires climate change instruction within the current established science curriculum; requires such instruction be taught in grades one through twelve.
Provides for the employment of school nurses for the inspection of pupils attending certain public schools; relates to school districts and boards of cooperative educational services.
Requires the department of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools and to implement a plan to increase the school counselor, school social worker and school psychologist to student ratio to nationally accepted standards and provide funding for such.
Enacts the "our school our rules act"; prohibits mandatory regionalization plans.
Requires the state education department to develop a model mental health training program to serve as the mental health component of required school safety trainings as part of comprehensive district-wide safety plans developed by each district-wide school safety team.
Authorizes a weighted selection process prioritizing children who would be eligible to receive free or reduced price lunch and/or who are emergent multilingual learners for the allocation of certain prekindergarten seats in school districts where there are more eligible children than can be served in a given school year.
Increases age eligibility for certain programs and benefits to age twenty-two for students with a disability.
Permits parents or guardians of twins or higher order multiples who attend school in Nassau or Suffolk county to request placement of such children in the same classroom; defines "higher order multiples".
Requires immediate notification of a child's parent or guardian when an allegation of child abuse in an educational setting has been made regarding such child.
Prohibits the commissioner from promulgating any rules or regulations which prevent schools from disallowing biologically male students at birth to participate on a team organized for females where a school determines such biological male student's participation would have an adverse effect on the physical or emotional safety of female participants, or would adversely impact a female student's ability to participate successfully in interschool athletic competition.
Requires school districts and other facilities providing universal prekindergarten programs utilize all allotted funds for universal prekindergarten programs.
Exempts Massapequa union free school district from laws, rules, or regulations regarding the use of indigenous names, mascots, and logos.
Requires a traffic study that evaluates the potential impact of the proposed charter school on traffic patterns, safety and congestion in the surrounding area as part of an application to establish a charter school.
Requires schools to include instruction on the prevention of eating disorders as an integral part of their health education programs.
Requires the commissioner to incorporate measures of racial and socioeconomic integration into state accountability models; requires data compiled to be included in the school report card created by the department.
Relates to establishing a commission for the educational advancement of multilingual learners in New York; provides such commission shall report on the best practices and legislative recommendations to close the achievement gap and high school graduation rates between multilingual learners and their English proficient peers from prekindergarten through twelfth grade.
Removes the cap on funds for teacher resource and computer training centers for the city school district for the city of New York.
Establishes instruction in financial literacy for students in sixth through eighth grade; requires such instruction to include content on budgeting, savings, credit, debt, insurance, investment, and other issues associated with personal financial responsibility as determined by the education department.
Details the procedure that certain school districts must follow when dealing with disciplinary actions for bus drivers and bus drivers' assistants.
Promotes the inclusion of children living in temporary housing in prekindergarten programs; requires school districts to prioritize homeless children on any pre-K waitlists and provides for the reimbursement to school districts of hiring additional staff to accommodate the enrollment of a homeless child.
Provides for the appointment of a monitor team to oversee the Wyandanch union free school district on the academic, fiscal and operational status of such school district; extends such provisions of law five years from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2030.
Enacts the student journalist education act to protect student speech at educational institutions unless such speech is libelous, an invasion of privacy, or incites students to commit an unlawful act, violate school policies, or to materially and substantially disrupt the orderly operation of the school.
Relates to building aid for incremental zero-emission school bus infrastructure costs provided through the 2034-2035 school year.
Enacts "Alexandra's law" to require school districts and charter schools to include in the curriculum or instruction teaching students how to recognize and react to rip currents, rip tides and undertows.
Strengthens protections against discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on actual or perceived immigration status, and to improve implementation and oversight under the Dignity for All Students Act.
Waives tuition requirements for nonresident pupils if the nonresident pupil is enrolled in a school where the pupil's parent or guardian is a principal, a teacher or a paraprofessional or the nonresident pupil is enrolled at another school within the same district as a school where the pupil's parent or guardian is a principal, a teacher or a paraprofessional.
Requires transportation after 4pm be provided for certain students by school districts in Sullivan county.
Authorizes school districts to establish reserve funds for special services or programs upon approval by the board of education of such district in an amount not to exceed 10% of other reserve funds of the district.
Permits schools located within the state to purchase reduced fat or whole New York milk to provide or sell at such school; defines New York milk as raw milk produced by milking cows within the state, transported to a dairy processing center within the state, and processed as fluid milk into containers intended for distribution to consumers.
Enacts the Educational Rights Transparency for New York Families Act, to establish standards for resource based educational rights of students within the state and implement a system of self-assessment and reporting by schools and school districts.
Provides for accelerated payments to the city school district of the city of Mount Vernon.
Creates a service learning program for students serving as active volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers; mandates certain features of such program.
Enacts Firefighter Joseph P. Spor Jr.'s Law; requires the commissioner of education to establish September eleventh awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts; requires the education department to make curriculum materials and other resources regarding September eleventh available on its website.
Requires memorization of multiplication tables as part of the basic education program in public schools.
Clarifies the application of standardized testing requirements to the general education development exam by explicitly including it in the definition of "standardized test" and "test".
Requires schools report certain threats and acts of violence to the federal bureau of investigation, the state police, and the office of mental health.
Authorizes the chancellor of the city district to control and operate certain specialized high schools in the city of New York; establishes a commission on middle school achievement to provide guidance, advice, and make recommendations to the chancellor of the city district on matters pertaining to education policy, performance and innovation in New York city middle schools; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Protects women's sports in middle school and high school from unfair competition.
Permits special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions to establish reserve funds.
Updates provisions relating to dignity for all students including curriculum and teacher training requirements designed to prevent student suicide with a focus on LGBTQ students.
Relates to promoting equity and diversity in educational leadership and prioritize the issuance of new charters to community-based organizations run by individuals from historically underrepresented communities.
Relates to the completion of and information contained in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems assessments as part of building condition surveys for purposes of grant eligibility; requires such assessments to include a report containing specific information and includes qualification requirements for the person completing the report.
Requires entities selling zero-emission school buses to provide an independent range estimate to prospective purchasers; requires the office of general services to promulgate regulations and to provide zero-emission school bus manufacturers with a list of parties that may provide independent range verification.
Relates to purchases of food products for school meals from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors; prohibits sale of school foods containing certain synthetic color additives; establishes a "healthy kitchens, healthy schools program" to provide grants for kitchen upgrades; prohibits school meals from containing more than 25 grams of added sugars per day, in aggregate.
Authorizes the commissioner of education to appoint a monitor to oversee the Mount Vernon city school district; establishes the powers and duties of such monitor.
Provides that the commissioner of education may promulgate rules and regulations for a health education curriculum to include menstrual disorders, including but not limited to, endometriosis.
Requires high schools to teach first aid instruction to students in grades nine through twelve.
Establishes the healthy and safe students act; requires comprehensive sexuality instruction for students in grades K-12 which includes a model curricula for comprehensive sexuality education and at a minimum conforms to the content and scope of national sexuality education standards.
Grants a special apportionment to school districts having a population of between 195,000 and 219,000, for additional expenses incurred in the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years associated with changes in public pension liabilities.
Provides that a board of education or a board of cooperative educational services shall have the authority to award contracts for school food services on the basis of certain scoring criteria.
Requires teachers to offer students the option to participate in a one-minute period of silent meditation at the beginning of each school day.
Requires comprehensive eye examinations for students entering public school for the first time and within sixty days where any student fails a school administered vision screening examination; requires regulations.
Requires all school employees complete student mental wellness training on identifying signs and symptoms of mental health issues, eating disorders, behavioral health disorders, and substance use disorders, the use of evidence-based training programs including, but not limited to, mental health first aid or core elements of such programs to the extent practicable, and safe de-escalation of crisis situations.
Provides Yonkers city school district with additional supplemental education improvement plan funds.
Requires student athletes participating in public school sponsored athletics complete anti-bullying, anti-hazing and anti-harassment training.
Permits public schools to utilize or display indigenous names.
Relates to delaying the implementation of class size reduction plans and including additional exemptions to class size targets; provides such plans shall begin in September 2031 and be achieved by September 2036; adds gifted and talented schools and programs, screened admissions schools and programs, portfolio and specialized high schools and advanced placement classes; requires parents at each respective school be included on any discussions regarding class size exemptions.
Relates to determinations of appropriate educational programs for certain students in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more.
Directs the commissioner of education to create a pilot program to improve social and emotional learning in schools.
Relates to charter schools; clarifies the transparency and accountability of charter schools and provides fiscal relief to the school districts where charter schools are located.
Authorizes and requires the board of regents to set acceptable standards for the issuance of diplomas to students who are homeschooled.
Adjusts state qualitative skill education assessment standards.
Relates to the establishment, organization, and administration of charter schools.
Relates to establishing the Beacon School Pilot Program in New York city schools.
Requires that health and welfare services and facilities paid by a school district for a student attending school outside the district be no greater than the district's cost.
Removes the board of trustees of the state university of New York as a charter entity.
Provides test preparation for students in the seventh grade and eighth grade intending to apply to take the specialized high school admissions test.
Establishes a career explorations class to integrate academic and vocational education, link secondary and post-secondary education and provide learning activities and mentoring at the work site; provides students with school-based learning and work-based learning.
Increases the required number of instructional days in a school year to two hundred.
Provides for inclusion of the school district's regional cost index in calculating the supplemental education improvement plan grant amount for Yonkers city school district.
Provides additional requirements for approval of charter school applications; applies additional prohibitions to charter schools; requires certain financial disclosures by charter schools; requires charter schools to comply with provisions relating to construction, repair or demolition of school facilities; relates to admission of students.
Relates to requirements for applications for charter schools.
Requires each school district to ensure that every public or private school in which school days exceed five hours in duration provides a minimum of thirty minutes of daily recess within the school day for all students in kindergarten through fifth grade and for students in sixth grade who attend an elementary school.
Prohibits the establishment of new charter schools, or the revision of any charter in, or within a five mile radius of, the Hempstead union free school district, the Uniondale union free school district, or the Roosevelt union free school district.
Provides that where practicable, school districts in which schools are utilized as polling places shall schedule conference or professional development days on primary or election days when the polls are open to voters, and if students are present during hours when polls are open, school districts shall take measures to ensure that the general public shall not access other areas of the school outside of the polling place.
Directs the commissioner of education to make recommendations to the board of regents regarding the incorporation of instruction in artificial intelligence system literacy into the school curriculum at the elementary, junior high and senior high levels; directs the board of regents to adopt guidelines if the curriculum is adopted.
Creates an artificial intelligence working group within the department of education for the purpose of developing guidance and a model policy on the safe and effective use of artificial intelligence in ways that benefit, and do not harm, pupils and educators.
Establishes the Artificial Intelligence Literacy Act which establishes an artificial intelligence literacy in the digital equity competitive grant program.
Relates to revisions to charter schools that would expand the grades served at such charter schools.
Establishes family literacy programs for economically disadvantaged families living in poverty areas or areas with low-performing public schools; provides for competitive matching grants to establish a comprehensive program; requires commissioner of education to submit an annual report to the governor and legislature.
Provides an annual tax levy limit allowing for expenditures directly or indirectly related to school safety, including improving district wide emergency response plans, training staff and/or students on school safety and/or conflict mediation, installing and maintaining safety technology and software in school buildings, hiring school resource officers, acquiring emergency medical equipment, installing fencing around the perimeter of school grounds, installing bulletproof doors and windows, acquiring and maintaining technology for expedited notification of local law enforcement during an emergency.
Relates to repair reserve funds for municipal corporations, school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, district corporations and improvement districts.
Relates to Tier 1 high tax aid apportionment and foundation aid.
Relates to the establishment of multi-year cost allowances for the Mount Vernon city school district.
Provides the same adjustment for capital apportionment to high need school districts bordering the city of New York as used by school districts of the city of New York.
Relates to providing funding for transitional programs for students from English-speaking Caribbean countries who are not eligible for limited English proficiency programs.
Prohibits discrimination of students on school property or at a school function based on religious attire, clothing or facial hair.
Provides for the time period bases and manner of payment of employment preparation education apportionment state aid.
Requires every school district to conduct a transition feasibility analysis within the next succeeding school year as of the effective date of this act, and every five years thereafter, to determine the feasibility of using zero-emission school buses on current routes.
Requires schools to provide for health education pertaining to cannabis use.
Requires school districts and charter schools to include instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions, and lifeways of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students.
Lowers the minimum age to vote at school district meetings and for the election of school district officers from 18 to 16.
Prohibits the use of biometric identifying technology in schools for any reason other than certain specified purposes; adds fingerprint identification of teachers, administrators and students for the purpose of securely logging into a digital device for academic and administrative purpose to allowable purposes.
Relates to additional apportionment of building aid for certain projects; defines an eligible school construction project as one that is entirely funded from capital outlays and has a total project cost of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or less.
Requires construction contractors hired to perform work on certain school buildings and facilities to acquire a transportation worker identification credential card issued by the Transportation Security Administration prior to beginning work on such buildings and facilities.
Establishes protections for the rights of pregnant students, parenting students, and students with pregnancy-related conditions in schools; requires schools to establish liaison officers for such students and to disseminate information relating to resources available to such students.
Requires school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, charter schools and nonpublic schools to establish cellphone policies and procedures; requires the establishment of a committee to develop such policies and procedures; requires such policies and procedures to be individually tailored to specific school environments.
Relates to the allocation of prekindergarten funding to prioritize students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch and multilingual learners.
Relates to the burden of proof for appeal procedures for children with handicapping conditions; shifts the burden to the parent or person in parental relationship.
Requires instruction in public schools aligned to the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework; requires the commissioner of education to update learning standards on an ongoing basis and provide technical assistance and resources to aid public schools in providing such instruction.
Allows school resource officers to be hired with salary aidable to the school district; raises retirement salaries for such officers to fifty thousand dollars.
Provides schools the option to operate one hundred eighty days of instruction or the equivalent number of hours of pupil instruction.
Provides that in a city with a population of one million or more, where a student is applying to attend a public elementary or middle school and such student has a sibling who already attends such school, such student whose application is pending shall be given preference for admission.
Renames boards of cooperative educational services to NY polytechnical institutes.
Enacts the "Tevyan Rowe child and young teen mental health community safety act"; directs boards of education to create policies, procedures, and guidelines for at-risk children and young teens who have demonstrated suicidal ideation, been victims of harassment or bullying, and/or who have eloped from school property; establishes a commission to evaluate the safety and security of children in primary and secondary public and private schools in this state.
Directs the department of education to establish model codes of conduct on school property regarding cellphone use.
Requires instruction in arts and music education to be incorporated into curriculums for all public school students; requires school districts to ensure that appropriately certified teachers are providing such education; authorizes rules and regulations consistent with such provisions.
Prohibits discrimination against and harassment or bullying of students by employees or students on private, religious or denominational school property or at a school function; provides immunity from civil liability for a person making a good faith report of discrimination, harassment or bullying to authorities.
Establishes the commission on diversity in specialized schools.
Relates to the number and duties of assistant principals to be assigned to the schools in the city school district of the city of New York.
Enables students to receive information from colleges and universities without disclosing their personally identifiable information via an opt-in system.
Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period.
Relates to providing access to laptops for high school and higher education students and textbooks for higher education students; provides access to laptops and textbooks without charge.
Establishes a grant program for New York city's public K-12 schools which are eligible for support provided under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, for the purposes of installing laundry equipment for facilities for use by students and parents or guardians of students.
Prohibits the sale of food and food products containing boneless lean beef trimmings, commonly referred to as "pink slime", in schools.
Requires the board of education in the city of Buffalo to submit the school district budget to the voters for approval prior to adoption.
Increases from 9 to 11 the number of members on the board of education for the city school district of Buffalo; provides for appointment of two members by the Mayor of the city of Buffalo.
Allows boards of cooperative educational services to install school bus stop sign cameras.
Requires teachers employed by the Buffalo school district to reside within Buffalo city limits.
Relates to the financing of charter schools and apportionments.
Permits instruction in hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses.
Provides for high need and average need school districts to receive additional financial aid for each student if such school district spends ten percent less per student than the regional average spending per student.
Requires screening for dyslexia; provides for intervention services for dyslexic children.
Requires each school district to provide interventions and special curricula for children with dyslexia or other phonological learning differences or disabilities.
Provides that the East Ramapo central school district shall be eligible to receive an apportionment of funds to be used for services and expenses; directs certain reports to be submitted.
Establishes schools dedicated to teaching dyslexic students in certain school districts.
Relates to establishing Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Diwali, Lunar New Year, Tihar, Bandi Chhor Divas and Onam as school holidays.
Requires instruction in agriculture in every elementary, middle, and high school under state control or supported wholly or partly by the state.
Requires funding for special education services and programs for preschool children with disabilities to cover joint classroom instruction for such children with disabilities and other children for the same number of hours each day.
Provides that all schools shall have a multi-cultural curriculum.
Authorizes city boards, city-wide councils, community councils and school based management teams to conduct meetings via videoconferencing.
Relates to apportionment of public moneys to school districts employing eight or more teachers in high need districts.
Prohibits the use of certain restraints and aversive interventions against students; includes policies and procedures for responding to students who have mental health crises in school safety plans; provides that no student shall be subjected to chemical restraints, mechanical restraints, or seclusion on school property; requires the board of education or trustees of each public school and school district to develop a procedure to notify the parent or legal guardian of a student on the same day a physical restraint is applied on such student, such student is placed in a time out room, or such student is subjected to a prohibited form of discipline.
Establishes a school resource officer unit within the division of state police; permits every school district within the state to request the placement of a member of such unit at any building, structure or facility primarily used for the instruction of students located within such district.
Relates to school district unexpended surplus funds; provides that for the 2027--2028 school year and thereafter, surplus funds shall mean any operating funds in excess of six percent of the current school year budget, and shall not include funds properly retained under other sections of law.
Provides the Board of Regents with final approval authority over all proposed and renewed charter schools.
Allows for unlicensed personnel to administer certain seizure rescue medication in schools, on school grounds and at school events; provides that such medicine may be left with a school health official to be used as needed.
Establishes a high school robotics grant program; provides funding to high schools for participation in robotics competitions; sets forth eligibility requirements; provides for the application and awards process.
Directs the commissioner of education to provide for the proportionate availability of adequate school supplies for use by left-handed students where adequate supplies are available for use by right-handed students; applies to any school supplies and equipment purchased by the department or schools on or after the effective date of rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner of education.
Relates to the amount of surplus funds which may be retained by a school district; establishes surplus funds for the 2024-2025 school year through the 2028-2029 school year shall mean any operating funds in excess of 8% of the current school year budget.
Provides that the tax levy limit shall be equal to a zero percent increase over the prior year tax levy when the difference between the total amount of taxes levied for the prior year less the tax levy limit results in a negative number.
Prohibits students from possessing cellphones during classroom instruction.
Adopts the interstate teacher mobility compact to facilitate the mobility of teachers across member states, with the goal of supporting teachers through new pathways to licensure; establishes a regulatory framework to expedite and enhance the ability of teachers to move across state lines.
Requires certain entities to stock opioid antagonists and to store naloxone nasal sprays with or adjacent to automated external defibrillator cabinets.
Mandates the trustees of common school districts and the board of education of every union free school district to establish a code of ethics to be applied to the prohibition of the use of school resources for personal gain.
Requires the administration for children's services and New York city public school employees provide a verbal and written warning to students of such student's right to refuse an interview and right to have a supportive adult during the interview.
Amends the New York state college choice tuition savings program to have the program also apply to elementary and secondary schools.
Permits borough presidents to remove persons they appointed to a community district education council for criminal wrongdoing or misconduct.
Requires the commissioner of education to promulgate regulations that provide for the immediate decertification of any teacher who is convicted of a felony under NY law or any offense under the laws of another jurisdiction that would be a felony under NY law.
Creates a computer science course requirement for graduation from high school; directs the department of education to design and implement such program.
Makes certain provisions applicable to public schools relating to instruction in civility, citizenship and character education.
Relates to incorporating art and music into prekindergarten programs.
Requires public schools to start no earlier than eight thirty a.m. and that no public high school within the state shall start before an elementary school starts within the same school district.
Requires schools to include instruction on the prevention of co-occurring disorders as an integral part of their health education programs.
Enacts the "media literacy act"; requires teachers and library media specialists to complete professional development related to media literacy education; requires a school library media specialist in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high school; directs the commissioner of education to appoint a media literacy advisory committee to study the teaching of media literacy; creates a media literacy advisory committee to annually review policy and procedures on media literacy.
Establishes the underrepresented teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain underrepresented certified teachers in schools which have an underrepresentation of underrepresented certified teachers; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution.
Creates substance use prevention and recovery resource materials which include age-appropriate information on the risks of drug use, overdoses, and how to include resources from outside of the school district to improve instruction.
Requires the commissioner to establish domestic violence awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts; requires content to be age appropriate.
Expands the health education curriculum to include breast cancer screenings including age appropriate instruction in performing self-examinations.
Provides a $500,000 supplemental valuation impact grant to the West Valley central school district during the 2024--2025 school year.
Allocates the Amistad commission to work alongside the department of education and on behalf of students in the state; repeals certain provisions relating to the Amistad commission; requires schools in the state to provide curriculum relating to Black history, slavery, and race.
Authorizes the city school district of the city of Salamanca to establish a reserve fund for federal impact aid in the event such aid is reduced.
Establishes an office of special education services within the state education department to administer programs for children with disabilities to be headed by an assistant commissioner appointed by the board of regents.
Creates a single, streamlined process whereby a facility or program operating both a pre-kindergarten program and a daycare program may apply for and receive any certification, licensing, or other requirement otherwise necessary to operate a pre-kindergarten program or daycare program under the laws of the state.
Provides that prior year claims due to school districts shall be paid out of any excess settlement amount recovered by the attorney general prior to being apportioned to the general fund.
Relates to apportioning aid for career in education in school districts located in a city with a population between 62,000 and 65,000 or between 67,000 and 70,000 as recorded in the 2010 census.
Requires all schools have a calming space for students for praying, meditating, and calming themselves.
Authorizes occupational therapy services to be provided in school to students in grades pre-kindergarten through twelve with occupational impairments of a severity that does not adversely affect the student's educational performance but does present a barrier to functioning at home or in the community; directs the commissioner to promulgate rules and regulations for the provision of such occupational therapy services.
Prohibits the permanent or temporary housing of migrant populations in schoolhouses or on school grounds in districts outside of a city with a population of one million or more.
Establishes the advanced coursework expansion incentive grant program to school districts who offer advanced courses to economically disadvantaged students.
Directs the department of education to establish model codes of conduct on school property regarding cellphone use.
Authorizes school districts to establish an extraordinary needs reserve fund for the expenses of providing special education.
Establishes requirements for library material in public school libraries and public libraries; requires the development of policies for removal of materials; establishes protections for school library media specialists and librarians against harassment and discrimination in employment related to the refusal to remove library materials.
Permits certain schools to provide hemostatic agents for use during emergencies.
Authorizes high school students to vote on city-wide education councils regardless of age.
Provides grants for schoolyards and playgrounds to become living schoolyards which provide outdoor learning spaces for students.
Requires all school districts to purchase and provide assistive technology devices no later than two months after an item is put on a student's individualized education program.
Makes permanent the provisions relating to services to out-of-state school districts by boards of cooperative educational services.
Requires the department of education create an online database of seats available for non-public and public institutions who offer college opportunity programs and provide such information to authorized high school counselors.
Authorizes the department of health to establish an indoor air quality inspection, measurement and evaluation program; defines terms; makes related provisions.
Prohibits immigration enforcement in school settings; prohibits all public and charter schools from allowing law enforcement officials inside school property to access a student, except to address an imminent safety situation or if they have an appropriate judicial warrant or judicial order.
Provides that any board or trustees of each school district or board of cooperative educational services shall employ a minimum of one school nurse in each school building.
Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and driver's education in the district where they reside.
Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections.
Extends provisions of law relating to monitor of the Wyandanch union free school district from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2030.
Implements a state-wide plan to prevent and reduce the use of seclusion and physical restraint in schools; prohibits the use of seclusion, mechanical restraint, chemical restraint, and dangerous restraints that restrict breathing on students; authorizes annual appropriations to provide grants to school districts; provides for more rapid notice to parents if restraints or seclusion is used on a student.
Prohibits certain punishments and interventions in schools including corporal punishment, chemical restraints, mechanical restraints and other aversive interventions; authorizes limited use of timeouts and necessary physical restraints; creates a private right of action for violations.
Provides that contract cost adjustments in the middle of contract terms for school districts transportation contracts shall be at no additional cost to the state, locality or school district unless such amendment is necessary to comply with the statewide transition to zero-emission buses and provided that it has been established by the contractor that there has been at least an equivalent increase in the amount of such contractor's cost of operation.
Requires cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior high schools.
Requires school districts to refer a newly-registering child with a disability for evaluation within forty-eight hours of the time of the first contact between the school district and the person or entity registering the student with the school district, provided a request for referral has been made.
Extends the powers of the monitor of the Wyandanch union free school district to include overriding of any resolutions or motions; authorizes the monitor to direct the board, superintendent, and/or other school district officers to undergo any necessary training; grants the monitor the power to approve or disapprove the appointment of the superintendent by the board of education; requires an academic improvement plan to be developed by the board of education and the monitor.
Provides grants to nonprofit organizations that provide eligible home reading programs that provide independent reading level books that are individually mailed to the residences of kindergarten through fifth grade students on a weekly basis.
Requires annual reporting by city school districts in cities with a population of over two hundred fifty thousand regarding the arbitration process in teacher disciplinary proceedings.
Establishes the high school peer mentoring pilot program.
Requires the commissioner of education to establish a uniform dress code across all public high schools.
Relates to reimbursement of school districts for expenditures resulting from certain civil action settlements or jury awards related to child sex offenses if there was a monetary judgement issued or settlement agreement, the school district has no applicable insurance and the settlement or jury award would put a substantial financial burden on the school district.
Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the presence of educator diversity in the state, state actions taken to promote educator diversity, and how the state can encourage new initiatives to enhance and promote educator diversity in New York; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Relates to school property and real property taxes; establishes the blue ribbon commission on property tax reform; relates to state assistance for local real property reassessment, state assistance to assessing units within a school district, providing a fixed real property assessed value for residential real property owned by certain persons over the age of 65 and providing state reimbursement to municipalities for lost real property tax revenue; requires the state to fund certain programs mandated for municipal corporations or school districts.
Relates to librarians of school libraries.
Relates to the availability and purchase of zero-emission school buses.
Establishes the task force on education funding and property tax reform within the education department to conduct a comprehensive study and provide recommendations on education funding and the role of property taxes in funding New York's education system.
Requires high schools in grades nine through twelve to provide a course in financial literacy; requires students to complete such course as a condition of graduation.
Provides reimbursement to districts for any student attending a boards of cooperative educational services program.
Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections in Orange County.
Adds training of school personnel in non-lethal defense skills to requirements for school safety plans.
Prohibits a town, city, or county industrial development agency from waiving taxes which would be received by a school district.
Provides for parental notification when charter schools receive a corrective action plan or are given a short-term renewal.
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.
Repeals provisions of law requiring certain cities pay for certain charter school rents.
Establishes a career and technical education (CTE) diploma; establishes a CTE pathway to a diploma shall be based on a curriculum designed to provide students with technical skills and shall demonstrate that the student is ready for a career as determined by regulations of the commissioner.
Establishes Three King's day as a school holiday for all public schools in a city school district of a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants.
Requires age-appropriate instruction on conflict resolution for elementary, middle, and high school students; requires the commissioner to develop curricula for schools in the state for such instruction; directs the commissioner to develop resource materials to facilitate such instruction.
Relates to classroom safety mechanisms, emergency medical equipment, and evidence-based best practices for school safety planning and training.
Relates to a parent's right to know if an employee, volunteer or an administrator of a school district is reprimanded for inappropriate conduct towards their child; enacts "parent's right to know" act.
Requires that public schools provide instruction on climate change, including but not limited to identifying the causes and impacts of climate change on individuals, environments and communities, and learning to evaluate solutions.
Prohibits the approval of a charter school application when such school would operate within the Buffalo city school district.
Directs school districts to establish school threat assessment teams and implement plans to intervene where a student exhibits behavior indicating an intent to harm themselves or others and to address underlying needs of the student.
Requires the commissioner of education, in conjunction with the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health, to develop model mental health screenings for students and associated guidelines to assist school mental health screeners to perform mental health screening services to identify concerns in students' mental health.
Improves the transportation of children with special needs to and from school; provides that bussing time shall not exceed one and one-half hours; provides a special needs liaison to work with each family with a child with special needs; makes related provisions.
Directs the commissioner of education to establish a statewide school safety tip line to permit students and others to report information related to incidents of students causing harm to the physical or mental health of another student or school employee, or a threat of such harm.
Defines antisemitism for purposes of certain reviews of practices by the department of education.
Provides that the commissioner of education may also withhold from any district or city its share of the public money of the state for willfully disobeying any provision of law, or for such decisions, orders or regulations as aforesaid whose willful violation constitutes an immediate threat to the health, safety, education or welfare of students, employees or visitors at such common school, educational institution, school district or public school.
Disallows an application for a charter school to be approved if a state monitor or fiscal monitor is not operating in such school district.
Allows any veteran who has served this nation to be awarded a high school degree based on their knowledge and experience gained while in service.
Requires new teachers applying for certification or a license including childhood education teachers, early education teachers, special education teachers, or reading specialists to have completed training for evidence-based reading instruction.
Relates to payments made by school districts to charter schools.
Allows school principals in the city of New York to hire coaches who are not also teachers, provided that such coaches meet the qualifications set forth by relevant athletic organizations.
Establishes certain statewide literacy education programs including standards for an early education program, statewide parents as teachers program, a reading program to provide direct support for and intervention in intensive reading intervention services, and the district reading intervention program.
Provides that a mental health certificate shall be requested from each student at the same time health certificates are required; provides that an assessment and mental health history of any child may be requested by the local school authorities at any time in their discretion to promote the educational interests of such child; makes related provisions.
Prohibits the use of remote or virtual learning as a form of punishment or disciplinary action; provides exceptions for failure to comply with COVID-19 health and safety protocols.
Requires certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch to students with dietary restrictions free of charge.
Authorizes two or more school districts in certain counties to enter into a contract to establish and operate a regional high school.
Relates to grants for facilities providing prekindergarten services; promotes the financial viability of such facilities.
Requires the commissioner of education of the state of New York to conduct a study on the sufficiency of current education aid apportionment formulas, make recommendations for improvements to such formulas and deliver a report of such findings and recommendations and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.
Requires schools to accept credits for educational programs at OCFS facilities as transfer credits.
Relates to requiring a service center for independent living to be located in the county of Ontario.
Continues the New York State Pathways in Technology Early College High School Program in this state; requires the commissioner to allocate funds for new P-TECH programs for the purposes of preparing eligible academically at-risk and/or economically disadvantaged students for high-skill jobs.
Provides that where a pupil may be considered a dangerous threat to themself or others, such pupil may be suspended for no more than ten days prior to a hearing taking place to allow the school to have adequate time to make an evaluation on the pupil's mental health, which may include a psychiatric evaluation, and the risk of danger to others and to consult with law enforcement.
Enacts the "omnibus learning for work act"; establishes the youth apprenticeship program (Part A); establishes the enhanced regents professional diploma (Part B); establishes a youth apprenticeship tax credit (Part C); establishes the community college merit and mobility scholarship (Part D); renames certain schools established by a board of cooperative educational services as career prep centers (Part E); relates to the salary of certain teachers and staff providing instruction in career and technical education (Part F); implements the learning for work program (Part G).
Requires school districts to establish a language assistance program for limited English proficient parents of students; requires record keeping and annual reporting; permits districts to jointly establish such programs.
Requires minors under 18 years to attend school on a full-time basis, unless such minor is seventeen or older and enrolled in a vocational or occupational education program, with the consent of the school district and the person in parental relation with the minor; requires such minor must enroll in GED course until age of 19 years, if the person leaves school.
Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.
Expands the powers of boards of education to temporarily lease necessary space to include when facilities are under construction.
Relates to authorizing grants for the implementation of the seal of civic readiness program; authorizes grants of $50,000 to no more than 20 applicant school districts for public schools that have successfully completed both the seal of civic readiness application and commissioner created grant application.
Requires certain teachers who provide literacy instruction obtain a literacy endorsement.
Establishes the New York state school safety and security act; establishes the office of school safety and security to perform assessments of educational facilities for safety and security and provide safety and security training; establishes the school safety and security advisory board to establish school safety and security best practices and resources; imposes a one percent tax on mobile sports wagering to fund such office.
Creates the task force on early childhood education in public education to study the feasibility of incorporating younger age levels into the state public education system and extending the public education system to start at the age of six months and incorporate aspects of childcare and early childhood education into the existing public education system.
Grants school districts the ability to implement telehealth school-based mental health clinics; establishes the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund; relates to funding the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund.
Relates to empowering school boards to make decisions regarding employment based on performance, qualifications and the best interests of the students.
Authorizes school districts to enter into a lease outside of such school district when it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the commissioner of education that extenuating circumstances exist which necessitate a lease outside of the school district.
Requires all public and private schools to provide financial literacy education to pupils in grade eleven; directs that certain topics be covered in such educational program.
Requires the commissioner of education to produce a school aid computer listing based on updated current law where there is no school aid computer listing produced by the commissioner in support of an executive budget request.
Provides that a minor from six to sixteen years being absent from full time day instruction for the purpose of sounding "Taps" at a military honors funeral held in this state for a deceased veteran shall be excused from school.
Requires that parents of students at student orientations, back to school nights, or other beginning of year events, at schools that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program, receive notification of eligibility, and access to application, for free or reduced price meals for students.
Establishes the gifted education reinforcement act to establish statewide standards for gifted education programs; requires school districts to be accountable for providing such programs.
Requires the commissioner of education, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to develop a bleeding control kit program which requires bleeding control kits to be installed in easily accessible areas of schools; requires training of personnel to use bleeding control kits in the event of an injury to another person.
Relates to providing secondary school pupils and adults in career education programs access to programs/courses sufficient to comprise a career major in electric vehicle maintenance and repair; establishes the working group on electric vehicle career education achievement.
Requires the commissioner of education to establish standards, rules or regulations requiring that all chaperones or volunteers of school trips which involve taking students out of the state or out of the country be trained in first aid and to recognize certain medical emergencies.
Requires automated external defibrillator equipment to be immediately available at school-sponsored events; requires school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards and charter schools to develop and implement a cardiac emergency response plan.
Requires instruction in owning and operating a business including, but not limited to, basic financial literacy necessary for sound financial decision-making, leadership, management, communication, budgeting, savings, credit, debt, insurance, taxation, and other issues associated with owning and operating a business.
Establishes an educational program related to the prevention of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia bias and discrimination based on religion, race, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
Requires annual screenings for depression of students in grades seven through twelve; requires the department of education and the department of health to review data pertaining to the results of such screenings for local and statewide trends concerning teenage depression.
Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to attend career education classes.
Exempts Wantagh union free school district from laws, rules, or regulations regarding the use of indigenous names, mascots, and logos.
Includes the Sandy Ground community, the oldest continuously inhabited free black settlement in the United States, in the education curriculum.
Requires elementary and secondary school libraries provide equitable access to physical and digital media.
Prohibits the use of corporal punishment in schools; defines corporal punishment to include prohibiting the use of aversive interventions and time out rooms.
Declares the last Friday in October, known as Pulaski Day, a school holiday.
Requires that public school districts provide parents with notice of curriculum and obtain parental consent prior to providing sexual health education to students ten years of age or younger.
Establishes workplace readiness week to educate minors in relation to their workplace rights; requires eleventh and twelfth graders to receive education on workplace rights; requires a document on workplace rights to be provided to any minor seeking working papers.
Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school; defines "agricultural learning events" as including FFA events and 4-H programs.
Requires instruction on the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. capitol and its aftermath in all schools in the state.
Requires the school district of location shall annually provide written notice to all parents or persons in parental relation to students with disabilities attending nonpublic schools within their district regarding the process for requesting special education services; relates to the denial of services in a city having a population of one million or more for the 2024--2025 school year.
Relates to the computation of building aid for the construction, reconstruction or modernizing of no more than one project by the Boquet Valley Central school district.
Permits teachers licensed in another state to teach in New York while completing state-specific teaching certification or licensure requirements; establishes such requirements must be met within one year from the date such teacher began teaching in New York.
Prohibits the sale of food containing Red Dye 3 and Red Dye 40 in public schools from the beginning of the day until the last scheduled meal period.
Expands the monitoring of student incidents within the online occurrence reporting system to maintain and store data for the entirety of a student's elementary and secondary education, in order to allow school principals to identify repeated incidents of behavior and determine if additional support or intervention is needed.
Requires the principal of any high school to allow any local trade union, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of trade union recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
Requires high schools to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists during all school hours and after school activities.
Directs that a school in which a student is attending or will attend shall accept a medical immunization exemption.
Authorizes the delivery of telehealth services in schools by licensed providers.
Requires the commissioner of education to establish and enforce rules and regulations to incorporate at least a three credit course devoted to the instructional techniques necessary for effective literacy instruction which shall include delivering structured, systematic, explicit, evidence-based instruction aligned with the science of reading for prospective teachers.
Establishes a state seal of financial literacy; provides such seal recognizes high school graduates who have attained a high level of proficiency in personal finance, budget management, and investment.
Authorizes the state education department to contract for a program related to teacher recruitment and retention.
Permits schools located within the state to purchase reduced fat or whole New York milk to provide or sell at such school.
Authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enroll students in career and technical education courses.
Requires two qualified psychiatrists to be employed by each school district to perform and coordinate the provision of mental health services in the public schools.
Requires the commissioner of education to develop guidelines to encourage those in high school to participate in apprenticeships and to raise awareness in apprenticeship opportunities.
Requires that instruction in financial literacy be provided to pupils in grades nine through twelve; establishes what should be included in such curriculum including the basics of financial planning, budgeting, borrowing, interest rates, and personal insurance policies.
Relates to the calculation of selected operating aid per pupil for the Boquet Valley central school district; provides the date of reorganization, July 1, 2019, shall be used when calculating.
Requires public schools to provide at least one flavored milk option at scheduled meal periods.
Relates to providing additional reimbursement to school districts for expenses incurred for failure to receive timely payments of state aid, including expenses relating to interest payments and ancillary expenses incurred as a result of not having received aid in a timely manner.
Provides for instruction in food and agriculture in schools using a curriculum established by the commissioner of education in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets.
Provides that charter school applicants shall first apply to the local board of education of the school district or the community district education council for approval or renewal of a charter.
Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services; puts limits on certain administrative and clerical expenses.
Expands the real property tax exemption for persons with disabilities to property owners who are a parent or parents of an individual with a disability and such individual lives at such property.
Imposes certain conditions on the approval of a charter school application for the conversion of an existing public school to a charter school.
Relates to designating the first Friday in February as the "New York statewide school day to help people in need".
Relates to including at least one person who is familiar with the needs of students with disabilities in the development of school safety plans; provides that building-level response plans shall include a list including each student with a disability enrolled at the site together with information from the student's individualized education program (IEP) that is relevant to ensuring the student's safety and the role of the staff member responsible for assisting the student in an emergency.
Exempts the costs associated with expenditures resulting from the purchase of BOCES services and programs from the real property tax levy limit.
Directs the division of criminal justice services to develop information on the safe storage of firearms to be provided to parents of school children.
Relates to culturally responsive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender education standards.
Prohibits school districts from authorizing a currently enrolled public school student to be home schooled when the superintendent of the school district is notified of a pending child abuse or neglect investigation or if either custodial parent or a person instructing the child has been convicted of domestic violence, child abuse, or neglect.
Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch.
Creates a school budget tax cap exemption for expenditures resulting from settlements or jury awards for civil actions brought against school districts under the child victims act.
Relates to establishing the Gold Award and Eagle Scout achievement scholarship; authorizes a scholarship of $500 per year for high school graduates attending a New York state public post-secondary institution who have achieved a Gold Award from the Girl Scouts of the United States of America or an Eagle Scout from the Boy Scouts of America.
Requires school districts, public libraries, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public elementary and secondary schools to provide and maintain on-site opioid antagonists.
Requires persistently dangerous schools to file an incident reduction plan detailing the steps the school will take to reduce incidents of violence and disruption; requires notice to be given to victims of harassment, bullying, or violent offenses of their right to transfer to another public school.
Requires daycare facilities to maintain evacuation and lockdown plans for children with disabilities during an emergency situation.
Requires the regents to prescribe courses of instruction in state and local government in elementary and middle schools in the state; provides boards of education and trustees of the several cities and school districts of the state shall require instruction to be given in such courses by the teachers; requires similar instruction in private schools.
Requires a school nurse to be on the premises during school hours in any school having an enrollment of 100 pupils or more.
Requires every middle school and every high school to provide instruction on vaccine science, including vaccine history and development, effects on the immune system, vaccine-preventable diseases and their spread, and vaccine safety and testing.
Requires schools to conduct annual lead testing on pipes and paint in all schools in New York city that provide schooling for children ages six and under and to remediate any presence of lead immediately if detected.
Provides for the viewing of photo or video footage captured by a camera installed inside a school bus, by a parent or guardian of a pupil, when such parent, guardian or pupil reports any incident of physical harm, harassment, intimidation or bullying occurring against the pupil while such pupil travelled on such school bus.
Provides that any standardized test or examination shall not be subject to any time limitation when administered by the city district.
Provides that state aid payments due for prior years shall be paid either from funds available in the general support for public school appropriation as a result of the deduction of excess payments of aid; or within the limit of the appropriation designated therefor.
Requires school meal nutritional facts and ingredient list be provided for meals provided to students before serving such meal; allows such information to be posted on the school district website; requires the school district to notify parents or guardians of any changes in the meals, the new nutritional facts, and the itemized list of ingredients.
Excludes certain tuition payments by school districts for general education and special students residing in such school districts from the calculation of the tax levy limit.
Establishes mandatory training for every high school guidance counselor relating to assisting students with autism spectrum disorder; requires high school guidance counselors to receive training at least once a year on the special needs of students with autism spectrum disorder and how to assist such students in the transition from high school to higher education or employment.
Provides for the establishment of police training high schools in certain city school districts; provides for further education and employment; establishes preferential admissions criteria for the state and city universities; establishes preferential civil service criteria in the recruitment of police officers.
Directs the commissioner of education to establish a commission to study the needs of adolescents and the effect that school day start times have on the health and academic performance of students.
Requires electrocardiograms be provided by school health services to screen for heart conditions; requires electrocardiograms be conducted on students to screen for heart conditions in order to attend school.
Establishes a school air conditioning system grant program to provide schools with funding to install air conditioning systems in certain areas; makes an appropriation therefor.
Requires cardiac fitness certificates including an electrocardiogram or echocardiogram for interscholastic athletes in all public schools.
Establishes a New York state education equity fund; authorizes the dormitory authority of the state of New York (DASNY) to invest $75 million in a public-private partnership revolving loan fund for loan financing to cover capital costs for the construction and improvements of public charter schools.
Grants priority to charter school applicants with a board of trustees and school administrators that are at least fifty-one percent minority group members.
Creates a transportation subsidy to increase access to water safety instruction.
Establishes the first of April as the annual reporting deadline for the basic educational data system (BEDS); imposes some additional requirements for calculating and reporting a school's student population.
Provides public access to epinephrine auto-injector devices at schools; establishes public access epinephrine auto-injector device providers.
Expands the definition of tuition for children with handicapping conditions.
Enacts the "education funding census update act"; updates the census numbers used to calculate certain education funding.
Provides that any school district may establish a reserve fund for the payment of unanticipated costs related to pupil transportation in excess of public funds apportioned to districts for such purposes.
Establishes that any person who knowingly engages in a repeated course of cyberbullying of a minor is guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by a period of imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both.
Directs the commissioner of education, in conjunction with the superintendent of state police and the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services, to establish standards for the security and safety of school grounds.
Directs the board of education or the board of trustees of each school district shall establish a policy and adopt procedures permitting the district to confer a diploma on a student posthumously if, at the time of death, such student had completed the eleventh grade class of a public school in the district and was enrolled or expected to be enrolled in the twelfth grade class within the same public school district the following school year.
Establishes a pilot program to provide grants to local education providers to implement high-impact tutoring programs prioritizing low-income or underserved students to address student learning loss or unfinished learning resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires a yearly inspection of all audiological testing equipment in all schools.
Provides that a board of education or a board of cooperative educational services shall have the authority to award contracts for school food services on the basis of certain scoring criteria.
Requires monthly inspections of all AED equipment in all schools.
Provides for an annual growth amount for tuition and regional rate reimbursement for approved school-age and preschool special education programs.
Provides specific requirements for a course of instruction relating to the Holocaust and genocide.
Establishes the school safety specialist act; establishes a certification and training program for school safety specialists; outlines the roles and duties of school safety specialists.
Relates to the apportionment of moneys for capital outlays and debt service for school building purposes.
Increases foundation aid for school districts that meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch, English language learners, wealth ratio, enrollment, special education, and being located in a high wealth ratio county.
Relates to creating a school resource officer program to permit the employment of retired law enforcement officers and provide grants to school districts and non-public schools for such purpose.
Extends the right to vote in school district elections to qualified persons who are sixteen years of age.
Deems home instruction which is compliant with the provisions of article 65 of the education law and the home instruction requirements prescribed in the commissioner of education's regulations to be substantially equivalent in amount and quality to the instruction given to students of like age and attainments at the public schools of the city or district where the student resides.
Relates to the removal of an election commissioner by the governor or by affirmative vote of a majority of commissioners of the state board of elections for incompetence, misconduct, or other good cause, provided that prior to removal, such election commissioner shall be given a written copy of the charges against them and have an opportunity to be heard in their defense.
Directs the office of mental health to develop materials relating to suicide prevention and identifying signs of depression for school-aged children; authorizes school districts to include suicide prevention in health class curriculum.
Enacts the "educational equity and choice act"; requires nonpublic schools to provide the same services that public schools currently provide to nonpublic schools; provides that such costs shall be approved by the commissioner of education and borne by the state; makes related provisions.
Enacts hazing offenses and anti-hazing educational programs at educational institutions and requires educational institutions to maintain a public report on hazing violations.
Establishes that tuition rates shall grow by a percentage equal to the general support for public schools appropriation provided to schools.
Relates to the provision of certain services to students in nonpublic schools in certain school districts.
Enacts the "learning for work act"; establishes the youth apprenticeship program and the enhanced regents professional diploma; appropriates moneys therefor.
Establishes the make our schools safer commission to produce protocols on how to make schools in New York safer from school shootings and bombers; requires the commission to deliver a report of its findings to the legislature and the governor; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Provides for absence from school for the mental or behavioral health of the minor.
Provides that any special act school districts established pursuant to Chapter 566 of the Laws of 1967 shall be held harmless from any reduction in tuition revenue or any tuition rate calculation and/or rate reconciliation arising out of intake closure or limits on the entry of new student placements.
Establishes a grant program for public K-12 schools which are eligible for support provided under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, for the purposes of installing laundry equipment for facilities for use by students and parents or guardians of students.
Relates to establishing the commission on African American history and achievement to develop and recommend school curriculum that incorporates the contributions and achievements made by African Americans.
Requires the New York city department of education to create more gifted and talented programs and classes in all school districts with elementary kindergarten through fifth grade and intermediate sixth through eighth grade with four or more classes per grade for students who shall gain entry through academic merit rather than through an admissions examination; authorizes automatic admission to a gifted and talented program in intermediate sixth through eighth grade for those students in elementary grades kindergarten through fifth grade who are currently enrolled in such program; makes related provisions.
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to develop guidelines for transportation of students on field trips.
Relates to requiring the department of education to provide school districts with a list of resources and instructional materials on media literacy; defines terms.
Provides that no school district shall be eligible to receive the full apportionment of state aid to which it is entitled if evidence is found by the state comptroller when an audit is conducted and such audit finds that a district has inappropriate excess of their unexpended surplus funds and such school district did not reduce the school tax levy in a proportion equal to the excess of four percent of the current year school budget.
Requires public schools to offer plant-based food options in food service.
Requires the public school curriculum for children in kindergarten through grade twelve to include a minimum of two hours per week instruction in civics lessons.
Relates to school session days; adds general election day to the list of days when school will not be in session; allows a school district to elect to require staff attendance on a general election day or to schedule a professional development day.
Limits compensation of executives of charter schools to $199,000 where such compensation is provided through state funding.
Relates to mandatory continuing education for teachers relating to mental health issues and trauma informed care.
Requires that the NYS board of regents hold at least two meetings a year in New York city; requires announcements of the time, date, location and agenda thereof.
Establishes interregional enrollment of students taking classes in multiple school districts (Part A); allows students who are enrolled in and taking classes in multiple school districts to receive cooperative and individualized educational services (Part B).
Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million that have students practicing a religious faith with specific dietary restrictions to offer food options which meet such dietary restrictions upon the students' request.
Provides for apportionment for charter school tuition payments for any school district that is required to pay tuition to charter schools in the two thousand twenty-five-two thousand twenty-six school year and thereafter.
Requires that climate change and sustainability education be taught in elementary and high schools to educate pupils about how human activities cause climate change, the effects of climate change, the dangers associated with climate change and preventative measures that can be taken to alleviate the impacts of climate change.
Requires the electronic and print publication of certain school district reports within 7 days after approval; defines "local officer or employee" to include certain school officials.
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study regarding ecological literacy and healthy living curriculum in schools, and to provide recommendations in a report.
Permits local boards of education to enter into contracts with a drive-sharing network of persons for reimbursement of transportation expenses for the conveyance of pupils residing in such school districts; authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations; outlines certain requirements to which the local board of education shall adhere; makes related provisions.
Establishes active shooter drills in public and private educational institutions.
Authorizes school districts to submit an opt-out waiver to the commissioner of education authorizing such districts to opt-out of certain zero-emission school bus requirements.
Relates to student class size in public schools in school districts located outside of a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants; requires such districts to develop a plan to reduce actual class sizes beginning September two thousand twenty-five.
Requires comprehensive training at least one time per year for school bus drivers and school bus attendants in the discouragement, prevention and detection of harassment, bullying and discrimination.
Requires instruction in anti-gun violence in all schools.
Requires higher education research facilities to make available certain information regarding the adoption of dogs or cats on their website.
Decreases the frequency of lock-down drills in schools; directs that such drills shall be implemented with a trauma-informed approach; permits parents to opt their children out of such drills.
Requires a school library media specialist in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high school with one such specialist being employed full-time in schools with more than five hundred students and two such specialists being employed full-time in schools with more than two thousand students.
Requires the development of course materials for mandatory continuing education for teachers relating to mental health issues.
Creates a set of media literacy standards for students in grades kindergarten through twelve which focuses on internet safety, civility and digital citizenship.
Allows voters to take photographs of themselves and their ballot, or absentee ballot, while in a privacy booth, and to share and disseminate such photographs on social media.
Requires vision screening examinations for students using examination devices and testing methods, including, but not limited to, the Snellen Eye Test Chart and automated vision screening devices.
Requires absentee ballots to be provided to all qualified voters; relates to the delivery of absentee ballots.
Prohibits the city school district from reimbursing charter schools for leasing a privately owned or other publicly owned facility; prohibits charter school employee contracts from including a non-disclosure agreement.
Establishes a climate change education grant program to award grants to eligible applicants to support climate change education grant programs for young people or to provide optional teacher training or professional development programs relevant to the advance of climate change literacy in young people; establishes the New York state climate change education fund.
Requires certain school staff members to be trained in the Heimlich maneuver and requires at least one such trained person to be present when and where students eat meals.
Relates to school districts evaluating capital improvement projects for such school district in the state for: compliance with the New York state climate leadership and community protection act, upgrading heating, ventilation or air conditioning to be more energy efficient, including, but not limited to upgrading to an active solar heating system; installing solar panels or other sources of alternative energy; improving broadband accessibility and reliability; upgrading technology so that it is more resistant to security risks; structural improvements, including, but not limited to windows, roofs, foundations and walls; purchasing hybrid or electric school buses; and upgrading plumbing and electrical systems.
Establishes the differentiated learning environment task force, to conduct a comprehensive study on the way colleges and universities are preparing future teachers to work in urban settings and to offer differentiated classrooms.
Requires all text-books approved by this article to reference the Sea of Japan as also the East Sea.
Requires any school district in the state shall provide, to pupils in grades nine through twelve, one full unit of instruction designed to promote consumer awareness and financial education.
Provides for a gun violence prevention program in the public schools; provides that the program is to be developed by the department of education in conjunction with other state agencies and educational organizations and is to be made available to schools for use in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade; provides for a report to the governor and the legislature on the program; enacts the "gun violence prevention act".
Requires LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction.
Establishes a half-credit course in financial education delivered by means of a comprehensive financial literacy program for all pupils in grades nine, ten, eleven or twelve.
Provides that students who have an IEP shall not be required to take more than one regents examination on any given day.
Requires school districts to conduct mandatory early screening for dyslexia for all children commencing in pre-kindergarten or kindergarten and continuing thereafter on an annual basis until each child successfully completes second grade; requires school districts to designate an individual to maintain complete and accurate records containing early screening reports for each child, and to provide resources and materials to the parent and/or guardian of any child who displays indications of dyslexia.
Requires kindergartens to operate full day programs in the 2027-2028 school year.
Requires instruction in civic education for grades 5 through 12 including instruction on the NYS constitution; federal, state and local government; civic literacy; methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Allows public campaign funds to be used for disability access services including but not limited to captioning, sign language interpretation, assistive listening device, Braille, large print, communication access real-time translation and accessible transportation services and to be used for language interpretation and translation services.
Establishes the "Purple Star School Program" to assist military-connected students and to recognize the value of military service and civic responsibility.
Requires school districts to provide instructional programming and services in reading and literacy which are evidence based and aligned with state standards; requires teachers in grades pre-K through five to attend professional development courses in reading education.
Establishes that instruction in financial education be provided to pupils in grades nine through twelve; establishes what should be included in such curriculum including the basics of financial planning, budgeting, borrowing, interest rates, personal insurance policies, etc.
Requires teachers and library media specialists to complete professional development related to media literacy education; directs the department of education to develop model media literacy education and CTLE requirements related to media literacy education.
Establishes a task force to study the frequency and seriousness of violence that occurs on school grounds and the causes of such violence; and make recommendations on school safety in the state of New York.
Includes policies and procedures for responding to students having mental health crises in a manner that does not include contacting law enforcement unless implied or direct threats of violence or other criminal activity is involved in school safety plans.
Enacts Jacobe's Law requiring school administrators to contact the parents or guardians of students when bullying or harassment has occurred.
Requires school districts to screen for gifted and talented students; provides the parents or guardians of such students the option to opt out of such screening.
Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to assess language needs in the district; requires the department of education to establish web pages detailing the rights of parents to translation services in each covered language; requires annual reports by each school district to the local board of education.
Requires vision screening in public schools using examination devices and testing methods as may be authorized in the regulations of the commissioner of education, including but not limited to, the Snellen Eye Test Chart and automated vision screening devices.
Requires instruction in financial management for all students in grades four through eight.
Relates to prohibiting school districts, school principals, administrators, or teachers from requiring, permitting, or conducting a lesson or experimental study using an animal in a hatching project.
Relates to providing additional reimbursement to school districts for expenses incurred as a result of an influx of migrant students entering the schools of the districts; directs the governor to submit chapter amendments to the Aid to Localities budget.
Requires school districts to have diversity, equity and inclusion officers to develop methods to diversify the personnel of the school district and to recommend changes to district policies and practices to reduce racial disparities in hiring school district employees, particularly teachers; requires boards of education to annually report information regarding such policies and practices to the department of education; requires the department of education to annually report such information to the legislature.
Authorizes aid for career education to begin in grade nine instead of grade ten; changes the amount per pupil.
Prohibits trustees and members of a board of education from having a family member who works for the same board of education or school district as the trustee or member.
Establishes St. Patrick's day, March 17th, as a school holiday for all city school districts of cities of one million inhabitants or more.
Relates to residency requirements for students in districts in which charter schools are located; provides that students shall attend charter schools solely if they live in the district in which the charter school is located.
Requires the location of a proposed charter school be included in the charter application.
Requires the commissioner of education to develop and adopt instruction in financial and insurance literacy for students in grades nine through twelve.
Permits a school food authority to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast program to the thirty percent of costs for school breakfast, snack and lunch service programs.
Establishes the bilingual teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain bilingual, certified teachers in schools with a bilingual teacher shortage; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution.
Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports.
Relates to the compulsory age for full time instruction from six to five years of age and certain exceptions for minor children.
Requires the administration and the instruction in preparation of the TASC examination in the Chinese and Korean languages for pupils who are proficient in these languages and of limited English proficiency.
Relates to instruction in food, agriculture and nutrition in elementary and high school; contents may be varied to meet the needs of particular school districts; need not be uniform throughout the state; school districts shall utilize either the curriculum for health education instruction regarding food, agriculture and nutrition prescribed by the commissioner or a course approved by the commissioner in accordance with criteria established by the commissioner.
Requires at least one full-time guidance counselor to be employed in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior and senior high school throughout the state; sets duties of guidance counselors.
Relates to the establishment of various programs for students in pre-kindergarten through third grade including programs for literacy, career readiness and financial literacy.
Authorizes a school district in the village of Tuckahoe, by resolution, to limit transportation of students to 7 miles.
Provides for accountability in state assessments by creating a regents review board to audit assessments used to determine grade promotion, graduation and adequate yearly progress by requiring a written report, implementation of an auditing and review of pilot and/or field testing of the standardized tests used to ensure validity, reliability, alignment to standards and appropriateness of use.
Relates to reimbursement for studies for districts subject to reorganization when appropriated.
Prohibits trustees and members of a board of education from voting on matters before the board which affect a family member of the trustee or board member who is either employed by the board of education or school district or who would be financially impacted by such vote.
Requires the department of education to develop school health and mental health professionals to student ratios in public schools for students who do not receive services pursuant to the individuals with disabilities education act.
Establishes the fifteenth day of the month of Kartika on the Hindu calendar in each year, known as Diwali, as a statewide school holiday.
Requires the appointment of an independent fiduciary upon the closing of a charter school to develop and implement the dissolution plan of such charter school, including the distribution of assets.
Establishes the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Indian calendar in each year, known as Diwali, as a school holiday.
Enacts the "making equitable and alternative lunches (MEAL) act"; requires a public school to offer a plant-based food option, a halal food option and a kosher food option as an alternative to every meal or snack offered in food service to any student who chooses such alternative meal or snack as an option.
Relates to the creation of a school-based teen dating violence prevention program designed to be incorporated into a school district's existing health curriculum to prevent and reduce the incidence and prevalence of teen dating violence.
Requires kindergarten instruction for Rockland and Westchester counties for minors who are five years of age on or before December first.
Enacts the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"; requires community school boards in the city of New York to authorize, where reasonable, the use of school grounds in the summer months for use by any steel pan music organization to practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival).
Provides that in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more, the parent or person in parental relation to a child shall be entitled to the presumption that the school identified in a settlement agreement is the student's operative placement for the purposes of pendency until there is an intervening, pendency-changing event.
Requires instruction in senior high schools regarding calling 911 when witnessing or experiencing a drug or alcohol overdose; provides that pupils shall receive instruction regarding the lawfulness of calling 911 when witnessing or experiencing a drug or alcohol overdose; encourages pupils to call 911 when witnessing or experiencing a drug or alcohol overdose without fear of arrest.
Increases the per student rate of empire state after school program and advantage after school program grants; requires future per student rates to be modified accounting for any minimum wage adjustments.
Permits the Niskayuna central school district to create an insurance reserve fund.
Eliminates the requirement that when the board of education enters into a piggyback contract with another school district that transports students pursuant to a contract with a private transportation contractor, the board finds that the entry into the piggyback contract will result in a cost savings to the school district.
Establishes an advanced coursework and examination access program to reimburse exam fees associated with the administration of an advanced coursework exam; defines terms; requires authorized schools to inform students and parents of all advanced coursework programs offered, their cost-free status, and the potential benefits of their successful completion as it relates to college credit and other academic opportunities; makes related provisions.
Relates to providing transportation for children with a disability; removes the requirement that a child attends the school the district is providing transportation to for the purpose of receiving services or programs similar to special educational programs recommended for such child by the local committee on special education.
Relates to school climate and codes of conduct on school property and disciplinary action following violation of such codes of conduct; makes conforming amendments.
Establishes the "New York individuals with dyslexia education act"; implements a plan to identify and support students with characteristics of dyslexia; requires annual screening in grades K-5; directs intervention and notification; directs education department to develop a handbook providing guidance to parents and teachers.
Requires hate crime awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts.
Defines the term "construction projects" to mean the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of any school building where a district receives any apportionment for debt service or building aid and the school building is sited within the Long Island region; provides that each contract involving the award of a construction project shall require the use of a project labor agreement for all contractors and subcontractors on such project.
Authorizes the provision of site mapping for emergency response data with school safety plans; provides for the funding of such mapping data.
Relates to the provision of grants to eligible school districts to cover the costs of school resource officers employed at schools in such districts; authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enter into contracts with local police entities to provide school resource officers.
Requires courses of study in private schools in the prevention of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse for pupils in grades K-8.
Requires the state to reimburse non-public and private schools for the cost of testing where COVID-19 testing is being mandated by the state.
Requires all public school districts, charter schools and non-public schools in the state that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program as provided in the national child nutrition act to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to the student.
Relates to establishing a task force on safety in school transportation to review and promote such safety.
Relates to metered in funding for rental assistance for all New York city charter students.
Prohibits the appointment of certain state, municipal or agency employees as impartial hearing officers to hear appeals of determinations regarding children with handicapping conditions.
Directs the commissioner of education to appoint a media literacy advisory group to study the teaching of media literacy; requires such group to survey all school districts on the media literacy practices of and the current media literacy resources available to each district, to inquire how districts are currently integrating digital citizenship and media literacy education in their curriculum.
Directs the commissioner of education to appoint a media literacy advisory committee to study the teaching of media literacy; requires such committee to annually review policy on media literacy.
Adds a school business official to the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) Board.
Enacts the "Drink Up Act"; requires every public school to offer water in a sealed bottled container as an additional drink option to any student during lunch at no cost to such student.
Requires the commissioner of education to make a report on the extent of all existing resources and best practices available for swimming instruction classes in public schools and establish a working group on swimming education.
Relates to amending the universal full-day pre-kindergarten program subscription amount for regions other than New York city.
Establishes community literacy programs and the community literacy fund to provide grants to non-profit organizations that assist adults in reading, writing, math, English language proficiency, and problem-solving skills.
Relates to school boards approving a budget that exceeds the tax levy limit by a sixty percent vote; requires subsequently it must be approved by a majority of the qualified voters.
Expands the requirements for teaching humane education of animals to secondary school students; requires verification of compliance.
Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma, formerly known as the general education development (GED) program, to the Excelsior diploma.
Authorizes schools to possess and administer FDA approved opioid reversal agents in emergency situations to negate or neutralize, in whole or in part, the pharmacological effects of an opioid in the human body.
Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available.
Establishes a center for dyslexia and dysgraphia within the department of education.
Requires school districts to adopt a policy prohibiting the use of cellular telephones during classroom instruction; requires the department of education to adopt a model policy for use by school districts.
Includes remedial services, homework or childcare as the transportation responsibility of the city school district located in a city having a population of one million or more.
Relates to calculation of interests costs for certain bonds issued to finance school rehabilitation or reconstruction costs for Rochester schools.
Clarifies valid reasons to obtain an absentee ballot for elections in school districts which do not utilize poll registration.
Authorizes an additional $125 million for Phase 3 of the Rochester school facilities modernization program; extends phase 3 of the Rochester school facilities modernization program to 2033.
Relates to the date of school district annual organizational meetings; allows boards of education to meet on any date on or before the Monday after July 20th for their annual organizational meeting.
Requires school districts to provide information regarding water safety to parents or students upon enrollment.
Requires nonpublic schools provide and maintain on-site automatic external defibrillator (AED) equipment on school grounds and assure that AED equipment is available for off-site curricular events, extracurricular events or school-sponsored athletic events.
Permits the principal of any high school to allow any local fire department, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of fire department junior recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
Grants a waiver in the amount of $52,000 to Adirondack Helping Hands for services rendered during the 2016--2017 school year; provides such waiver shall be allocated to costs associated with special class in an integrated setting spending for the 2016--2017 school year.
Requires schools safety plans to include a cardiac emergency response plan that addresses the use of appropriate personnel and measures to respond to incidents involving any individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or similar life-threatening emergency on any school site owned or operated by a school or at a location of a school sponsored event.
Relates to property used by the Greenburgh North Castle Union Free School District number 12 and authorizes such school district to affiliate with Rising Ground, Inc.
Extends a provision of law regarding the disposal of surplus computer equipment by political subdivisions.
Prohibits discrimination against and harassment or bullying of students by other students on school property or at a school function; requires schools to investigate reports of bullying; requires schools to adopt a written, plain-language anti-bullying and harassment policy; requires school employees to report incidents of bullying or harassment.
Relates to calculation of interests costs for certain bonds issued to finance school rehabilitation or reconstruction costs for Rochester schools.
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education.
Requires school districts to provide information regarding water safety to parents or students upon enrollment.
Requires the school district of location shall annually provide written notice to all parents or persons in parental relation to students with disabilities attending nonpublic schools within their district regarding the process for requesting special education services; relates to the denial of services in a city having a population of one million or more for the 2024--2025 school year.
Directs the commissioner of education to conduct a survey of recess held in public and charter schools serving students in kindergarten through grade six and to provide any information collected to the governor and the legislature.
Relates to property used by the Greenburgh North Castle Union Free School District number 12 and authorizes such school district to affiliate with Rising Ground, Inc.
Authorizes students attending the Syracuse Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics high school, who participated in a high school athletic competition for a school district other than the Syracuse city school district in 7th and/or 8th grade, to be eligible for senior high school athletic competitions.
Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available.
Includes remedial services, homework or childcare as the transportation responsibility of the city school district located in a city having a population of one million or more.
Prohibits the use of biometric identifying technology in schools for any reason other than certain specified purposes; adds fingerprint identification of teachers, administrators and students for the purpose of securely logging into a digital device for academic and administrative purpose to allowable purposes.
Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a survey regarding instruction on Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history within the state; establishes an Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander history advisory committee; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Requires nonpublic schools provide and maintain on-site automatic external defibrillator (AED) equipment on school grounds and assure that AED equipment is available for off-site curricular events, extracurricular events or school-sponsored athletic events.
Clarifies valid reasons to obtain an absentee ballot for elections in school districts which do not utilize poll registration.
Raises the exclusion of certain indebtedness of school districts other than school districts in a city with one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more according to the latest federal census.
Empowers the commissioner of education to declare a disaster has substantially impacted an annual meeting and election and to allow school boards to set an additional day for voting if less than eight percent of registered voters cast ballots as a direct consequence of a disaster.
Authorizes the Hamburg Central School District to utilize certain payments related to video lottery gaming facilities to provide increased support to public schools; authorizes such school district in which a video lottery gaming facility is located to receive payments to increase support for public schools.
Protects women's sports in middle school and high school from unfair competition.
Requires public elementary schools to start no earlier than eight a.m. and public secondary schools to start no earlier than eight thirty a.m.
Provides for the election of eight Regents of the University of the State of New York
Requires policies regarding maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities to include a plan to remove students and staff from occupied spaces where practicable when educational and support services spaces reach eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
Requires that all special education students attending schools scheduled to be closed or to undergo a significant change be assigned to new schools prior to the implementation of the closing or change.
Enacts the "schools impacted by gross highways (SIGH) act"; prohibits the commissioner of education from approving the plans for the erection of any new schoolhouse within five hundred feet of a controlled-access highway unless the commissioner of education determines that space limitations are so severe that there is no other site to erect such new schoolhouse, and there are adequate engineering controls to address air quality; makes related provisions.
Authorizes the trustees of the Tuckahoe Common School district to submit a proposition to reorganize as the Tuckahoe-Shinnecock Union Free School District.
Provides that school districts may hold elections in any building owned or leased by the district, in addition to any district schoolhouse.
Lowers the period of probable usefulness of zero-emission school buses from twelve years to eight years.
Provides that school districts may hold elections in any building owned or leased by the district, in addition to any district schoolhouse.
Provides funding for school anti-violence education programs through the omnibus school violence prevention grant program.
Relates to reserved funds for special educational services for certain children with disabilities.
Permits the Clarence central school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Establishes the power plant tax assessment challenge reserve fund to prevent increases in the Northport-East Northport union free school district's real property tax levy and/or tax rate resulting from decreases in revenue or taxes or a significant shift in tax liability due to a tax certiorari settlement or judgment; defines terms; makes related provisions.
Establishes the power plant tax assessment challenge reserve fund to prevent increases in the Northport-East Northport union free school district's real property tax levy and/or tax rate resulting from decreases in revenue or taxes or a significant shift in tax liability due to a tax certiorari settlement or judgment; defines terms; makes related provisions.
Authorizes the provision of site mapping for emergency response data with school safety plans; provides for the funding of such mapping data.
Requires the commissioner of education to establish uniform statewide protocols for diapering and toileting of students in public schools.
Allows for the education department to provide registration applications to licensees for each profession by means other than mail; requires the state education department to mail applications prior to the end date of such registration period.
Requires student identification cards to contain the new national suicide prevention lifeline number, 9-8-8, and the crisis text line.
Allows for the designation of students as ex officio members of school boards; clarifies what such ex officio members are permitted to do.
Renames the Syracuse Comprehensive Education and Workforce Training Center as the Syracuse Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics high school.
Requires annual reporting by city school districts in cities with a population of over two hundred fifty thousand regarding the arbitration process in teacher disciplinary proceedings.
Provides that the East Ramapo central school district shall be eligible to receive an apportionment of funds to be used for services and expenses; directs certain reports to be submitted.
Prohibits certain punishments and interventions in schools including corporal punishment, chemical restraints, mechanical restraints and other aversive interventions; authorizes limited use of timeouts and necessary physical restraints; creates a private right of action for violations.
Requires schools that have a Muslim or Jewish population greater than or equal to ten percent of the student body to offer Halal food options and/or Kosher food options during lunch.
Establishes the Artificial Intelligence Literacy Act which establishes an artificial intelligence literacy in the digital equity competitive grant program.
Directs the department of education to establish model codes of conduct on school property regarding cellphone use.
Establishes a fiscal control board for the East Ramapo central school district; continues the powers and duties of the monitors appointed to the East Ramapo central school district; provides for accelerated payments to the East Ramapo central school district; relates to building aid ratios for certain school districts; repeals provisions relating to supplementary funding for dedicated programs for public school students in the East Ramapo central school district.
Allows boards of cooperative educational services to install school bus stop sign cameras.
Provides that the Yonkers city school district shall be eligible to receive an apportionment of funds to be used for services and expenses; directs certain reports to be submitted.
Directs that a school in which a student is attending or will attend shall accept a medical immunization exemption.
Relates to annual professional performance reviews of teachers and principals; establishes an optional system of annual professional performance review plans; repeals provisions relating to streamlined removal procedures for teachers rated ineffective.
Extends provisions of law relating to directing the commissioner of education to promulgate regulations limiting the engines of school vehicles to remain idling while parked or standing on school grounds.
Extends provisions allowing BOCES to enter into private leases for real property.
Extends provisions related to services to out-of-state school districts by boards of cooperative educational services to July 1, 2029.
Directs school districts to establish school threat assessment teams and implement plans to intervene where a student exhibits behavior indicating an intent to harm themselves or others and to address underlying needs of the student.
Requires high schools to teach first aid instruction to students in grades nine through twelve.
Requires the principal of any high school to allow any local trade union, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of trade union recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
Creates substance use prevention and recovery resource materials which include age-appropriate information on the risks of drug use, overdoses, and how to include resources from outside of the school district to improve instruction.
Directs the commissioner of education to establish a statewide school safety tip line to permit students and others to report information related to incidents of students causing harm to the physical or mental health of another student or school employee, or a threat of such harm.
Requires that all special education students attending schools scheduled to be closed or to undergo a significant change be assigned to new schools prior to the implementation of the closing or change.
Authorizes the Iroquois central school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education.
Establishes a maximum temperature in school buildings and indoor facilities; provides a definition of extreme heat condition days and the standard to measure room temperature.
Permits the Fulton city school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Includes remedial services, homework or childcare as the transportation responsibility of the city school district located in a city having a population of one million or more.
Relates to continuance of the Greenburgh North Castle Union Free School District number 12.
Relates to reserved funds for special educational services for certain children with disabilities.
Empowers the commissioner of education to declare a disaster has substantially impacted an annual meeting and election and to allow school boards to set an additional day for voting if less than eight percent of registered voters cast ballots as a direct consequence of a disaster.
Decreases the frequency of lock-down drills in schools; directs that such drills shall be implemented with a trauma-informed approach; permits parents to opt their children out of such drills.
Establishes the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology ("FIRST") robotics competition; creates a grant program to fund high school participation in the competition and to encourage study in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
Provides public access to epinephrine auto-injector devices at schools; establishes public access epinephrine auto-injector device providers.
Relates to employment contracts between school bus workers and the department of education in a city with at least one million inhabitants.
Decreases the frequency of lock-down drills in schools; directs that such drills shall be implemented with a trauma-informed approach; permits parents to opt their children out of such drills.
Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million that have at least 25% of students practicing a religious faith with specific dietary restrictions to offer food options which meet such dietary restrictions.
Clarifies valid reasons to obtain an absentee ballot for elections in school districts which do not utilize poll registration.
Clarifies the responsibility of school districts for certain temporary-resident preschool children with disabilities who are in foster care, are homeless or are in residential care.
Clarifies the responsibility of school districts for certain temporary-resident preschool children with disabilities who are in foster care, are homeless or are in residential care.
Requires high schools to teach first aid instruction to students in grades nine through twelve.
Requires school districts to screen for gifted and talented students; provides the parents or guardians of such students the option to opt out of such screening.
Updates provisions relating to dignity for all students including establishing the student suicide prevention act which includes curriculum and teacher training requirements designed to prevent student suicide with a focus on LGBTQ students; makes an appropriation therefor.
Enacts the student suicide prevention act; requires the governing board or body of every local educational agency serving students in grades seven to twelve, to adopt policies, procedures and guidelines on student suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for students in such grades.
Relates to complaints concerning the moral character of individuals who hold or who are applicants for New York State teaching certificates.
Requires school districts to screen for gifted and talented students; provides the parents or guardians of such students the option to opt out of such screening.
Requires the principal of any high school to allow any local trade union, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of trade union recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
Relates to complaints concerning the moral character of individuals who hold or who are applicants for New York State teaching certificates.
Provides that a student enrolled in an individualized education program during certain school years may continue to receive educational services until the student completes the services pursuant to the individualized education program or the end of the school year during which the student turns twenty-two years old, whichever is sooner.
Relates to school climate and codes of conduct on school property and disciplinary action following violation of such codes of conduct; makes conforming amendments.
Creates a single, streamlined process whereby a facility or program operating both a pre-kindergarten program and a daycare program may apply for and receive any certification, licensing, or other requirement otherwise necessary to operate a pre-kindergarten program or daycare program under the laws of the state.
Requires the principal of any high school to allow any local trade union, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of trade union recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available.
Allows for the designation of students as ex officio members of school boards; clarifies what such ex officio members are permitted to do.
Requires nonpublic schools provide and maintain on-site automatic external defibrillator (AED) equipment on school grounds and assure that AED equipment is available for off-site curricular events, extracurricular events or school-sponsored athletic events.
Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available.
Defines anti-Semitism relating to the department of education.
Relates to the calculation of selected operating aid per pupil for the Boquet Valley central school district; provides the date of reorganization, July 1, 2019, shall be used when calculating.
Allows the president of the citywide council on high schools to participate in the selection of the members of the board of education elected by the community district education council presidents.
Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma, formerly known as the general education development (GED) program, to the Excelsior high school diploma.
Authorizes the city school district of the city of Salamanca to establish a reserve fund for federal impact aid in the event such aid is reduced.
Permits the principal of any high school to allow any local fire department, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of fire department junior recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
Authorizes the city school district of the city of Salamanca to establish a reserve fund for federal impact aid in the event such aid is reduced.
Raises the exclusion of certain indebtedness of school districts other than school districts in a city with one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more according to the latest federal census.
Provides that a board of education or a board of cooperative educational services shall have the authority to award contracts for school food services on the basis of certain scoring criteria.
Updates provisions relating to dignity for all students including establishing the student suicide prevention act which includes curriculum and teacher training requirements designed to prevent student suicide with a focus on LGBTQ students; makes an appropriation therefor.
Requires certain entities to stock opioid antagonists and to store naloxone nasal sprays in or around automated external defibrillator cabinets.
Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma to the Excelsior high school diploma.
Requires nonpublic schools provide and maintain on-site automatic external defibrillator (AED) equipment on school grounds and assure that AED equipment is available for off-site curricular events, extracurricular events or school-sponsored athletic events.
Authorizes school districts to submit an opt-out waiver to the commissioner of education authorizing such districts to opt-out of certain zero-emission school bus requirements.
Relates to the salary of certain teachers employed by a board of cooperative educational services providing instruction in career and technical education to school age students.
Relates to the availability and purchase of zero-emission school buses.
Permits local boards of education to enter into contracts with a drive-sharing network of persons for reimbursement of transportation expenses for the conveyance of pupils residing in such school districts; authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations; outlines certain requirements to which the local board of education shall adhere; makes related provisions.
Establishes interregional enrollment of students taking classes in multiple school districts (Part A); allows students who are enrolled in and taking classes in multiple school districts to receive cooperative and individualized educational services (Part B).
Adopts the interstate teacher mobility compact to facilitate the mobility of teachers across member states, with the goal of supporting teachers through new pathways to licensure; establishes a regulatory framework to expedite and enhance the ability of teachers to move across state lines.
Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.
Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.
Exempts Wantagh union free school district from laws, rules, or regulations regarding the use of indigenous names, mascots, and logos.
Clarifies valid reasons to obtain an absentee ballot for elections in school districts which do not utilize poll registration.
Requires school districts to provide information regarding water safety and swimming certification to certain parents or students upon enrollment; defines "water safety".
Creates substance use prevention and recovery resource materials which include age-appropriate information on the risks of drug use, overdoses, and how to include resources from outside of the school district to improve instruction.
Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services; puts limits on certain administrative and clerical expenses.
Relates to the release of student education records to juvenile detention facilities; provides that where a student has been directed to be held in a juvenile detention facility pursuant to a court order, the educational agency where such student attends school at the time of such direction shall, upon request of the juvenile detention facility where such student is held, disclose such educational records to educational program personnel at such facility without consent of the parent or eligible student under certain circumstances.
Provides that a board of education or a board of cooperative educational services shall have the authority to award contracts for school food services on the basis of certain scoring criteria.
Relates to the release of student education records to juvenile detention facilities; provides that where a student has been directed to be held in a juvenile detention facility pursuant to a court order, the educational agency where such student attends school at the time of such direction shall, upon request of the juvenile detention facility where such student is held, disclose such educational records to educational program personnel at such facility without consent of the parent or eligible student under certain circumstances.
Enacts the "regents modernization act" to require the board of regents shall be at all times at least four times more than the number of the then existing judicial districts of the state and shall not be less than fifteen; makes related provisions.
Directs the department of education to establish model codes of conduct on school property regarding cellphone use.
Prohibits school districts from authorizing a currently enrolled public school student to be home schooled when the superintendent of the school district is notified of a pending child abuse or neglect investigation or if either custodial parent or a person instructing the child has been convicted of domestic violence, child abuse, or neglect.
Decreases the frequency of lock-down drills in schools; directs that such drills shall be implemented with a trauma-informed approach; permits parents to opt their children out of such drills.
Establishes the New York state school safety and security act; establishes the office of school safety and security to perform assessments of educational facilities for safety and security and provide safety and security training; establishes the school safety and security advisory board to establish school safety and security best practices and resources; imposes a one percent tax on mobile sports wagering to fund such office.
Allows students attending agricultural learning events to be counted as in attendance at school; defines "agricultural learning events" as including FFA events and 4-H programs.
Establishes the school safety specialist act; establishes a certification and training program for school safety specialists; outlines the roles and duties of school safety specialists.
Establishes that instruction in financial education be provided to pupils in grades nine through twelve; establishes what should be included in such curriculum including the basics of financial planning, budgeting, borrowing, interest rates, personal insurance policies, etc.
Establishes the New York state school resource officer program; provides for grants for school resource officers (Part A); relates to peace officers who are retired police officers employed by a school district as a school resource officer (Part B); allows retired police officers to be employed by a school district as a school safety officer, school security officer or any other substantially similar position for an annual salary of $50,000 or less to continue to receive their full retirement benefit (Part C).
Creates an after-school challenge program to provide schools with up to $50,000 in matching funds for resources raised in private donations to support after-school programs which are curriculum based or community service programs.
Separates interscholastic athletic championships between public and non-public schools.
Provides that any school district may establish a reserve fund for the payment of unanticipated costs related to pupil transportation in excess of public funds apportioned to districts for such purposes.
Protects students from being bullied, harassed or discriminated against by school board members and school trustees.
Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections in Orange County.
Requires automated external defibrillator equipment to be immediately available at school-sponsored events; requires school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards and charter schools to develop and implement a cardiac emergency response plan.
Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections in Orange County.
Establishes a state seal of financial literacy; provides such seal recognizes high school graduates who have attained a high level of proficiency in personal finance, budget management, and investment.
Directs the division of criminal justice services to develop information on the safe storage of firearms to be provided to parents of school children.
Relates to mandatory continuing education for teachers relating to mental health issues.
Enables students to receive information from colleges and universities without disclosing their personally identifiable information via an opt-in system.
Extends the powers of the monitor of the Wyandanch union free school district to include overriding of any resolutions or motions; authorizes the monitor to direct the board, superintendent, and/or other school district officers to undergo any necessary training; grants the monitor the power to approve or disapprove the appointment of the superintendent by the board of education; requires an academic improvement plan to be developed by the board of education and the monitor.
Clarifies the application of standardized testing requirements to the general education development exam by explicitly including it in the definition of "standardized test" and "test".
Requires that public school districts provide parents with notice of curriculum and obtain parental consent prior to providing sexual health education to students ten years of age or younger.
Creates the New York state school resource officer program for school districts outside of New York City; requires retired police officers be certified by the department of education to become school resource officers; allows retired police officers employed as school resource officers to carry a firearm on school grounds given an appropriate license; relates to the earnings limitations for retired police officers employed as a school resource officer.
Permits the Niskayuna central school district to create an insurance reserve fund.
Authorizes a weighted selection process prioritizing children who would be eligible to receive free or reduced price lunch and/or who are emergent multilingual learners for the allocation of certain prekindergarten seats in school districts where there are more eligible children than can be served in a given school year.
Allows school principals in the city of New York to hire coaches who are not also teachers, provided that such coaches meet the qualifications set forth by relevant athletic organizations.
Grants school districts the ability to implement telehealth school-based mental health clinics; establishes the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund; relates to funding the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund.
Relates to making a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more eligible for transitional aid for charter school payments.
Requires school boards to make the final decision on whether to keep, remove, or restrict access to an instructional material in a school library; establishes a review process for formal complaints concerning instructional materials that are the subject of complaints.
Clarifies the application of standardized testing requirements to the general education development exam by explicitly including it in the definition of "standardized test" and "test".
Requires the commissioner of education, in conjunction with the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health, to develop model mental health screenings for students and associated guidelines to assist school mental health screeners to perform mental health screening services to identify concerns in students' mental health.
Extends provisions of law relating to monitor of the Wyandanch union free school district from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2029.
Establishes active shooter drills in public and private educational institutions.
Authorizes high school students to vote on city-wide education councils regardless of age.
Requires any school district in the state shall provide, to pupils in grades nine through twelve, one full unit of instruction designed to promote consumer awareness and financial education.
Requires public schools to start no earlier than eight thirty a.m. and that no public high school within the state shall start before an elementary school starts within the same school district.
Relates to mandatory continuing education for teachers relating to mental health issues and trauma informed care.
Prohibits students from possessing cellphones during classroom instruction.
Renames boards of cooperative educational services to NY polytechnical institutes.
Requires the dissemination of written materials regarding child access prevention and the safe storage of firearms to students and/or persons in a parental relationship to such students at the beginning of each semester or quarter of the regular school year beginning on and after July 1, 2024.
Requires the dissemination of written materials regarding child access prevention and the safe storage of firearms to students and/or persons in a parental relationship to such students at the beginning of each semester or quarter of the regular school year beginning on and after July 1, 2024.
Establishes a farm-to-school food service reimbursement program for school districts which have purchased at least thirty percent of their total food products, including both dairy and non-dairy products, for their food service programs from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors, based upon the number of federally reimbursable meals served to students under such program agreements entered into by the commissioner and such districts.
Prohibits discrimination of students on school property or at a school function based on religious attire, clothing or facial hair.
Prohibits discrimination of students on school property or at a school function based on religious attire, clothing or facial hair.
Prohibits the sale of food and food products containing boneless lean beef trimmings, commonly referred to as "pink slime", in schools.
Relates to providing access to laptops for high school and higher education students and textbooks for higher education students; provides access to laptops and textbooks without charge.
Establishes a grant program for New York city's public K-12 schools which are eligible for support provided under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, for the purposes of installing laundry equipment for facilities for use by students and parents or guardians of students.
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education.
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the number of children who are caregivers and how being a caregiver impacts their education.
Permits borough presidents to remove persons they appointed to a community district education council for criminal wrongdoing or misconduct.
Authorizes both public and nonpublic schools to hire school resource officers to provide improved public safety and/or security on school grounds.
Requires persistently dangerous schools to file an incident reduction plan detailing the steps the school will take to reduce incidents of violence and disruption; requires notice to be given to victims of harassment, bullying, or violent offenses of their right to transfer to another public school.
Relates to what positions in a school district constitute chief financial officer of such school district.
Directs the state education commissioner to require public school districts to report on compliance with art education instruction requirements.
Directs the state education commissioner to require public school districts to report on compliance with art education instruction requirements.
Requires daycare facilities to maintain evacuation and lockdown plans for children with disabilities during an emergency situation.
Requires daycare facilities to maintain evacuation and lockdown plans for children with disabilities during an emergency situation.
Allows a suspending authority to condition the early return of a student on such student's voluntary participation in counseling or specialized classes, including anger management or dispute resolution, where applicable.
Requires funding for special education services and programs for preschool children with disabilities to cover joint classroom instruction for such children with disabilities and other children for the same number of hours each day.
Repeals paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of section 2853 of the education law.
Expands the total enrollment percentage standard for school districts located in a city with a population of one million or more from applying to initial charter school applications to all charter school applications.
Requires the commissioner to establish domestic violence awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts; requires content to be age appropriate.
Creates a single, streamlined process whereby a facility or program operating both a pre-kindergarten program and a daycare program may apply for and receive any certification, licensing, or other requirement otherwise necessary to operate a pre-kindergarten program or daycare program under the laws of the state.
Relates to determinations of appropriate educational programs for certain students in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more.
Provides for the election of six Regents of the University of the State of New York
Requires September eleventh awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts, regarding the September eleventh, two thousand one attacks on the United States of America.
Relates to establishing a task force on safety in school transportation to review and promote such safety.
Relates to establishing a task force on safety in school transportation to review and promote such safety.
Relates to requiring training for teachers and administrators in the area of childhood trauma after January 1, 2025.
Establishes an Oneida county school milk pilot program allowing public schools in Oneida county to be reimbursed by the state for certain milk purchases.
Provides that contract cost adjustments in the middle of contract terms for school districts transportation contracts shall be at no additional cost to the state, locality or school district unless such amendment is necessary to comply with the statewide transition to zero-emission buses and provided that it has been established by the contractor that there has been at least an equivalent increase in the amount of such contractor's cost of operation.
Requires automated external defibrillator equipment to be immediately available at school-sponsored events; requires school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards and charter schools to develop and implement a cardiac emergency response plan.
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of the Hicksville union free school district.
Prohibits the permanent or temporary housing of migrant populations in schoolhouses or on school grounds in districts outside of a city with a population of one million or more.
Relates to metered in funding for rental assistance for all New York city charter students.
Relates to grants for facilities providing prekindergarten services; promotes the financial viability of such facilities.
Increases the required number of instructional days in a school year to two hundred.
Establishes a dyslexia and dysgraphia task force; implements the findings of such task force.
Creates a transportation subsidy to increase access to water safety instruction.
Relates to establishing a task force on safety in school transportation to review and promote such safety.
Directs the commissioner to convene statewide and regional conventions to bring together underrepresented educators annually to discuss experiences, best practices, and afford for networking, mentorship opportunities, and support.
Requires schools to include instruction on the prevention of co-occurring disorders as an integral part of their health education programs.
Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the presence of educator diversity in the state, state actions taken to promote educator diversity, and how the state can encourage new initiatives to enhance and promote educator diversity in New York; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Establishes the bilingual teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain bilingual, certified teachers in schools with a bilingual teacher shortage; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution.
Establishes the underrepresented teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain underrepresented certified teachers in schools which have an underrepresentation of underrepresented certified teachers; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution.
Establishes a dyslexia and dysgraphia task force; implements the findings of such task force.
Establishes the underrepresented teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain underrepresented certified teachers in schools which have an underrepresentation of underrepresented certified teachers; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution.
Directs the commissioner to convene statewide and regional conventions to bring together underrepresented educators annually to discuss experiences, best practices, and afford for networking, mentorship opportunities, and support.
Establishes the bilingual teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program to attract and retain bilingual, certified teachers in schools with a bilingual teacher shortage; provides for grants and procedures for applying for such grants and eligibility requirements for fund distribution.
Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the presence of educator diversity in the state, state actions taken to promote educator diversity, and how the state can encourage new initiatives to enhance and promote educator diversity in New York; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Requires each high school senior to complete the FAFSA, an application for TAP, or a waiver form; requires schools to report data on the rates of submission of FAFSA and TAP applications.
Lowers the minimum age to vote at school district meetings and for the election of school district officers.
Enacts the "media literacy act"; requires teachers and library media specialists to complete professional development related to media literacy education; requires a school library media specialist in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high and senior high school; directs the commissioner of education to appoint a media literacy advisory committee to study the teaching of media literacy; creates a media literacy advisory committee to annually review policy and procedures on media literacy.
Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch.
Requires free education for grades pre-K through undergraduate degree programs.
Establishes workplace readiness week to educate minors in relation to their workplace rights; requires eleventh and twelfth graders to receive education on workplace rights; requires a document on workplace rights to be provided to any minor seeking working papers.
Requires free education for grades pre-K through undergraduate degree programs.
Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period.
Requires all schools have a calming space for students for praying, meditating, and calming themselves.
Prohibits the use of biometric identifying technology in schools for any reason other than specified purposes.
Increases the amount of state subsidies schools may receive for serving lunch meals.
Establishes Diwali as a school holiday in public schools in the city of New York.
Establishes Diwali as a school holiday in public schools in the city of New York.
Declares the last Friday in October, known as Pulaski Day, a school holiday.
Directs the board of education or the board of trustees of each school district shall establish a policy and adopt procedures permitting the district to confer a diploma on a student posthumously if, at the time of death, such student had completed the eleventh grade class of a public school in the district and was enrolled or expected to be enrolled in the twelfth grade class within the same public school district the following school year.
Provides that where practicable, school districts in which schools are utilized as polling places shall schedule conference or professional development days on primary or election days when the polls are open to voters, and if students are present during hours when polls are open, school districts shall take measures to ensure that the general public shall not access other areas of the school outside of the polling place.
Establishes Three King's day as a school holiday for all public schools in a city school district of a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants.
Relates to providing additional reimbursement to school districts for expenses incurred as a result of an influx of migrant students entering the schools of the districts; directs the governor to submit chapter amendments to the Aid to Localities budget.
Requires certain teachers who provide literacy instruction obtain a literacy endorsement.
Requires new teachers applying for certification or a license including childhood education teachers, early education teachers, special education teachers, or reading specialists to have completed training for evidence-based reading instruction.
Requires that instruction in financial literacy be provided to pupils in grades nine through twelve; establishes what should be included in such curriculum including the basics of financial planning, budgeting, borrowing, interest rates, and personal insurance policies.
Establishes certain statewide literacy education programs including standards for an early education program, statewide parents as teachers program, a reading program to provide direct support for and intervention in intensive reading intervention services, and the district reading intervention program.
Authorizes the state education department to contract for a program related to teacher recruitment and retention.
Establishes workplace readiness week to educate minors in relation to their workplace rights; requires eleventh and twelfth graders to receive education on workplace rights; requires a document on workplace rights to be provided to any minor seeking working papers.
Requires school districts to refer a newly-registering child with a disability for evaluation within forty-eight hours of the time of the first contact between the school district and the person or entity registering the student with the school district, provided a request for referral has been made.
Permits special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions to establish reserve funds.
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of the Hicksville union free school district.
Requires cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior high schools.
Creates a school budget tax cap exemption for expenditures resulting from settlements or jury awards for civil actions brought against school districts under the child victims act.
Permits certain schools to provide hemostatic agents for use during emergencies.
Requires the commissioner of education to establish a uniform dress code across all public high schools.
Establishes the high school peer mentoring pilot program.
Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to attend career education classes.
Requires a period of unstructured physical play for pupils enrolled in kindergarten and grades one through five.
Relates to the computation of building aid for reorganization efforts including the construction, reconstruction or modernizing of certain projects by the Boquet Valley central school district.
Relates to providing additional reimbursement to school districts for expenses incurred for failure to receive timely payments of state aid, including expenses relating to interest payments and ancillary expenses incurred as a result of not having received aid in a timely manner.
Enacts a uniform incident reporting system regarding removal of students and other persons from classrooms and school property; establishes a registry to include the names of all persons who are removed from classrooms and school property, name of the school district and school, name of teacher, age and grade of student, reason for removal, action taken by school, and disciplinary action against student; requires annual report to governor, legislature and board of regents; provides for reports to commissioner of education and allows him to take appropriate action.
Requires two qualified psychiatrists to be employed by each school district to perform and coordinate the provision of mental health services in the public schools.
Establishes an advanced coursework and examination access program to reimburse exam fees associated with the administration of an advanced coursework exam; defines terms; requires authorized schools to inform students and parents of all advanced coursework programs offered, their cost-free status, and the potential benefits of their successful completion as it relates to college credit and other academic opportunities; makes related provisions.
Requires each district school board of education to publish on its website a list of all instructional materials, including those used to provide instruction and to provide notice to parents of their rights to attend school board meetings, access all educational learning materials and make objection to learning materials they find objectionable; requires the commissioner of education to promulgate model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes explicit content.
Requires schools to include instruction on the prevention of co-occurring disorders as an integral part of their health education programs.
Establishes a pilot program to provide grants to local education providers to implement high-impact tutoring programs prioritizing low-income or underserved students to address student learning loss or unfinished learning resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Includes remedial services, homework or childcare as the transportation responsibility of the city school district located in a city having a population of one million or more.
Relates to establishing Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Diwali, Lunar New Year, Tihar, Bandi Chhor Divas and Onam as school holidays.
Relates to continuing the New York State Smart Scholars Early College High School Program and the New York State Pathways in Technology Early College High School Program.
Requires the department of education to develop school health and mental health professionals to student ratios in public schools for students who do not receive services pursuant to the individuals with disabilities education act.
Provides that the commissioner of education may also withhold from any district or city its share of the public money of the state for willfully disobeying any provision of law, or for such decisions, orders or regulations as aforesaid whose willful violation constitutes an immediate threat to the health, safety, education or welfare of students, employees or visitors at such common school, educational institution, school district or public school.
Requires that academic credit toward a high school diploma be given for practical experience gained outside of school during high school.
Authorizes city boards, city-wide councils, community councils and school based management teams to conduct meetings via videoconferencing.
Requires the department of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools and to implement a plan to increase the school counselor, school social worker and school psychologist to student ratio to nationally accepted standards and provide funding for such.
Creates a uniform presentation for students regarding applying for financial aid; directs students to complete an affidavit certifying that the student attended the presentation and stating whether the student intends to apply for financial aid.
Requires LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction.
Enacts the "pupil privacy act" which requires schools to notify the parents or legal guardians of every student when a student protected information survey will be administered and provide such parent or legal guardian the opportunity to opt their child out of taking such survey.
Grants priority to charter school applicants with a board of trustees and school administrators that are at least fifty-one percent minority group members.
Provides that charter school applicants shall first apply to the local board of education of the school district or the community district education council for approval or renewal of a charter.
Relates to annual professional performance reviews of teachers and principals; establishes an optional system of annual professional performance review plans; repeals provisions relating to streamlined removal procedures for teachers rated ineffective.
Requires the dissemination of written materials regarding child access prevention and the safe storage of firearms to students and/or persons in a parental relationship to such students at the beginning of each semester or quarter of the regular school year beginning on and after July 1, 2024.
Provides for amendments to transportation contracts for the purpose of zero emission school bus requirement compliance.
Provides for absence from school for the mental or behavioral health of the minor.
Prohibits individuals convicted of stealing public funds from being elected or appointed as a member of a school board of education.
Grants the commissioner of education the power to identify schools for additional support and assistance and establish performance targets for such schools.
Requires vision screening examinations for students using examination devices and testing methods, including, but not limited to, the Snellen Eye Test Chart and automated vision screening devices.
Establishes a school ventilation and energy efficiency assessment, repair and verification program to require each school to: obtain an HVAC Assessment Report performed by qualified testing personnel documenting the functionality of the existing system or lack thereof, and obtain a report from a mechanical engineer identifying any upgrades, replacements or other measures recommended to improve the functionality, health and safety and/or energy efficiency of the HVAC system; adjust, and, if necessary, repair existing building HVAC systems, and install or replace HVAC systems, if necessary, to ensure proper and efficient operation, as well as compliance with health and safety standards; obtain an HVAC Verification Report performed by qualified testing personnel documenting any upgrades, replacements, installations or any other work performed on the HVAC system functions as designed and/or in compliance with health and safety standards; install CO2 sensors in classrooms, assembly areas, kitchen or cafeteria areas or building office spaces to provide ongoing verification that proper ventilation is maintained during operation; makes related provisions.
Provides additional powers and duties of the Hempstead union free school district monitors including overriding and proposing resolutions adopted by the school board, requiring the board and school district officers to undergo training, and the approving of the appointment of the superintendent.
Enacts the "campus-recognized sorority and fraternity transparency act"; requires campus-recognized sorority and fraternity annually submit information on its members and activities to the college or university; requires the college or university to compile such information into a publicly accessible report.
Relates to student class size in public schools in school districts located outside of a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants; requires such districts to develop a plan to reduce actual class sizes beginning September two thousand twenty-three.
Removes the affidavit of the lawful immigration status requirement for certain students.
Establishes the "New York individuals with dyslexia education act"; implements a plan to identify and support students with characteristics of dyslexia; requires annual screening in grades K-5; directs intervention and notification; directs education department to develop a handbook providing guidance to parents and teachers.
Directs the education department to study, review and report on the geographic cost variation of counties in the Hudson Valley labor force region to determine the appropriateness of the region cost index values for purposes of the public school foundation aid formula.
Directs the commissioner of education to develop a program and provide for a system whereby teachers may submit examination receipts for any New York state teaching certifications earned after the first permanent teaching certification for reimbursement by the department of education for any additional certifications.
Relates to the date of school district annual organizational meetings; allows boards of education to meet on any date on or before the Monday after July 20th for their annual organizational meeting.
Details the procedure that certain school districts must follow when dealing with disciplinary actions for bus drivers and bus drivers' assistants.
Requires a course of instruction on the provisions of the federalist papers and the United States constitution to be provided to high school students.
Establishes the first of April as the annual reporting deadline for the basic educational data system (BEDS); imposes some additional requirements for calculating and reporting a school's student population.
Provides that elections to fill an increased number of seats on a school board will be conducted at the first annual meeting after the meeting during which number of seats was increased.
Requires that parents of students at student orientations, back to school nights, or other beginning of year events, at schools that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program, receive notification of eligibility, and access to application, for free or reduced price meals for students.
Requires annual screenings for depression of students in grades seven through twelve; requires the department of education and the department of health to review data pertaining to the results of such screenings for local and statewide trends concerning teenage depression.
Requires that nominating petitions for small city school district elections be submitted no later than thirty days prior to the election; provides for a ten-day period for objecting to any nominating petitions; outlines the duties of the clerk of the board of education in finalizing the ballot after the ten-day objection period; provides that certain provisions concerning the date of the drawing for the names on the ballot do not apply to small city school districts.
Provides an annual tax levy limit allowing for expenditures directly or indirectly related to school safety, including improving district wide emergency response plans, training staff and/or students on school safety and/or conflict mediation, installing and maintaining safety technology and software in school buildings, hiring school resource officers, acquiring emergency medical equipment, installing fencing around the perimeter of school grounds, installing bulletproof doors and windows, acquiring and maintaining technology for expedited notification of local law enforcement during an emergency.
Requires school districts to establish a language assistance program for limited English proficient parents of students; requires record keeping and annual reporting; permits districts to jointly establish such programs.
Enacts the "freedom to read act"; requires the commissioner of education and school library systems to develop policies to ensure that school libraries and library staff are empowered to curate and develop collections that provide students with access to the widest array of developmentally appropriate materials available.
Requires school districts, public libraries, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public elementary and secondary schools to provide and maintain on-site opioid antagonists.
Relates to culturally responsive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender education standards.
Relates to requirements for applications for charter schools.
Adds training of school personnel in non-lethal defense skills to requirements for school safety plans.
Provides for the use of airway clearance devices in schools; provides for training for school employees.
Provides grants to nonprofit organizations that provide eligible home reading programs that provide independent reading level books that are individually mailed to the residences of kindergarten through fifth grade students on a weekly basis.
Relates to revisions to charter schools that would expand the grades served at such charter schools.
Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.
Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period.
Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the presence of educator diversity in the state, state actions taken to promote educator diversity, and how the state can encourage new initiatives to enhance and promote educator diversity in New York; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Makes permanent the provisions relating to services to out-of-state school districts by boards of cooperative educational services.
Relates to including at least one person who is familiar with the needs of students with disabilities in the development of school safety plans; provides that building-level response plans shall include a list including each student with a disability enrolled at the site together with information from the student's individualized education program (IEP) that is relevant to ensuring the student's safety and the role of the staff member responsible for assisting the student in an emergency.
Requires schools report certain threats and acts of violence to the federal bureau of investigation, the state police, and the office of mental health.
Authorizes and requires the board of regents to set acceptable standards for the issuance of diplomas to students who are homeschooled.
Mandates the trustees of common school districts and the board of education of every union free school district to establish a code of ethics to be applied to the prohibition of the use of school resources for personal gain.
Relates to providing secondary school pupils and adults in career education programs access to programs/courses sufficient to comprise a career major in electric vehicle maintenance and repair; establishes the working group on electric vehicle career education achievement.
Requires high schools to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists during all school hours and after school activities.
Relates to reimbursement of school districts for expenditures resulting from certain civil action settlements or jury awards related to child sex offenses if there was a monetary judgement issued or settlement agreement, the school district has no applicable insurance and the settlement or jury award would put a substantial financial burden on the school district.
Establishes the SAT school day program and the SAT school day fund; directs the department of education to establish and maintain the SAT school day program to enter into contract with the college board to provide the annual administration of the SATs at all public secondary schools free of charge during one regular school day.
Requires audits of charter schools include comparing funding to the number of students to ensure proper funding.
Enacts the "omnibus learning for work act"; establishes the youth apprenticeship program (Part A); establishes the enhanced regents professional diploma (Part B); establishes a youth apprenticeship tax credit (Part C); establishes the community college merit and mobility scholarship (Part D); renames certain schools established by a board of cooperative educational services as career prep centers (Part E); relates to the salary of certain teachers and staff providing instruction in career and technical education (Part F); and implements the learning for work program (Part G).
Creates a peer to peer mentoring program regarding drug use in elementary and secondary schools.
Relates to the apportionment of expenses for central high school districts; includes the total assessed value of payment in lieu of taxes in apportionment calculation.
Requires the appointment of an independent fiduciary upon the closing of a charter school to develop and implement the dissolution plan of such charter school, including the distribution of assets.
Provides that a mental health certificate shall be requested from each student at the same time health certificates are required; provides that an assessment and mental health history of any child may be requested by the local school authorities at any time in their discretion to promote the educational interests of such child; makes related provisions.
Establishes a New York state education equity fund; authorizes the dormitory authority of the state of New York (DASNY) to invest $75 million in a public-private partnership revolving loan fund for loan financing to cover capital costs for the construction and improvements of public charter schools.
Relates to establishing the Gold Award and Eagle Scout achievement scholarship; authorizes a scholarship of $500 per year for high school graduates attending a New York state public post-secondary institution who have achieved a Gold Award from the Girl Scouts of the United States of America or an Eagle Scout from the Boy Scouts of America.
Protects women's sports in middle school and high school from unfair competition.
Prohibits the use of certain restraints and aversive interventions against students; includes policies and procedures for responding to students who have mental health crises in school safety plans; provides that no student shall be subjected to chemical restraints, mechanical restraints, or seclusion on school property; requires the board of education or trustees of each public school and school district to develop a procedure to notify the parent or legal guardian of a student on the same day a physical restraint is applied on such student, such student is placed in a time out room, or such student is subjected to a prohibited form of discipline.
Amends provisions regarding the calculation of increases permitted in annual extensions of transportation contracts for school districts.
Allows home-schooled children to participate in interscholastic athletic activities and driver's education in the district where they reside.
Permits teachers licensed in another state to teach in New York while completing state-specific teaching certification or licensure requirements; establishes such requirements must be met within one year from the date such teacher began teaching in New York.
Establishes a half-credit course in financial education delivered by means of a comprehensive financial literacy program for all pupils in grades nine, ten, eleven or twelve.
Provides test preparation for students in the seventh grade and eighth grade intending to apply to take the specialized high school admissions test.
Requires each public school offering a dairy-based milk option during scheduled meal periods to provide at least one plant- or nut-based milk option.
Permits the principal of any high school to allow any local fire department, upon request, to enter the school for the purpose of fire department junior recruitment, including, but not limited to: making presentations; disseminating literature; and answering questions by students.
Requires that the NYS board of regents hold at least two meetings a year in New York city; requires announcements of the time, date, location and agenda thereof.
Establishes senior citizen extension schools to provide courses and activities of special interest to the health, welfare, and recreational needs of persons over sixty years of age.
Eliminates the requirement that when the board of education enters into a piggyback contract with another school district that transports students pursuant to a contract with a private transportation contractor, the board finds that the entry into the piggyback contract will result in a cost savings to the school district.
Provides for a temporary exemption to limitations upon school district tax levies to school districts who experience a loss of a payment in lieu of taxes agreement due to the closure of a nuclear power plant.
Limits compensation of executives of charter schools to $199,000 where such compensation is provided through state funding.
Requires age-appropriate instruction on conflict resolution for elementary, middle, and high school students; requires the commissioner to develop curricula for schools in the state for such instruction; directs the commissioner to develop resource materials to facilitate such instruction.
Provides that any special act school districts established pursuant to Chapter 566 of the Laws of 1967 shall be held harmless from any reduction in tuition revenue or any tuition rate calculation and/or rate reconciliation arising out of intake closure or limits on the entry of new student placements.
Creates the task force on early childhood education in public education to study the feasibility of incorporating younger age levels into the state public education system and extending the public education system to start at the age of six months and incorporate aspects of childcare and early childhood education into the existing public education system.
Relates to substance abuse prevention personnel in New York city schools.
Prohibits the city school district from reimbursing charter schools for leasing a privately owned or other publicly owned facility, and prohibits charter school employee contracts from including a non-disclosure agreement.
Relates to an aid rollback for charter schools.
Prohibits the discharge or dismissal of a member of the panel for educational policy without providing such member with a thirty day notice of such discharge or dismissal.
Expands the health education curriculum to include breast cancer screenings including age appropriate instruction in performing self-examinations.
Relates to school property and real property taxes; establishes the blue ribbon commission on property tax reform; relates to state assistance for local real property reassessment, state assistance to assessing units within a school district, providing a fixed real property assessed value for residential real property owned by certain persons over the age of 65 and providing state reimbursement to municipalities for lost real property tax revenue; requires the state to fund certain programs mandated for municipal corporations or school districts.
Requires instruction in owning and operating a business including, but not limited to, basic financial literacy necessary for sound financial decision-making, leadership, management, communication, budgeting, savings, credit, debt, insurance, taxation, and other issues associated with owning and operating a business.
Provides for parental notification when charter schools receive a corrective action plan or are given a short-term renewal.
Establishes the Northport high school peer mentoring pilot program.
Authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enroll students in career and technical education courses.
Relates to administering asthma rescue medications and authorizing schools to possess and administer asthma rescue medications in emergency situations to pupils with a requirement that the parent or guardian of such pupils are notified in writing of such emergency situation.
Relates to hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses.
Allows for unlicensed personnel to administer certain seizure rescue medication in schools, on school grounds and at school events; provides that such medicine may be left with a school health official to be used as needed.
Relates to the common core state standards initiative; establishes the department shall discontinue implementation of the common core state standards.
Modifies the date for kindergarten enrollment from when a minor who becomes five or six years of age on or before the first of December to the first of September.
Relates to librarians of school libraries.
Provides a $500,000 supplemental valuation impact grant to the West Valley central school district during the 2023--2024 school year.
Repeals provisions of law requiring certain cities pay for certain charter school rents.
Prohibits the use of corporal punishment in an educational setting; defines corporal punishment as an act of physical force upon a pupil for the purpose of punishing the pupil.
Creates a computer science course requirement for graduation from high school; directs the department of education to design and implement such program.
Provides for the employment of mental health professionals by school districts.
Allows any veteran who has served this nation to be awarded a high school degree based on their knowledge and experience gained while in service.
Relates to school district unexpended surplus funds; provides that for the 2025--2026 school year and thereafter, surplus funds shall mean any operating funds in excess of six percent of the current school year budget, and shall not include funds properly retained under other sections of law.
Requires that every licensed nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or physician employed by a school shall have completed proper training in the assessment, management and treatment of severe allergies and anaphylaxis; requires that every school shall have at least two unlicensed school personnel who are trained to administer glucagon or an emergency epinephrine auto injector; requires in elementary schools and other schools where students learn in a single classroom that the teacher of such class be trained in the administration of glucagon or an emergency epinephrine auto injector.
Provides for reimbursement for schools to transition from native names, logos, and mascots for the actual costs of such transition.
Relates to designating the first Friday in February as the "New York statewide school day to help people in need".
Authorizes school districts to establish an insurance reserve fund in an amount and manner determined by a qualified and independent actuary certified by the American Academy of Actuaries to be reasonable and necessary.
Requires daycare facilities to maintain evacuation and lockdown plans for children with disabilities during an emergency situation.
Prohibits the use of corporal punishment in schools; defines corporal punishment to include prohibiting the use of aversive interventions and time out rooms.
Permits the Auburn enlarged city school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Approves certain employee benefit costs for transportation employees for the Goshen Central school district.
Relates to the contracting of indebtedness by city school districts; removes provisions relating thereto.
Permits the Cleveland Hill union free school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Includes digital materials within school library materials.
Increases from three million dollars to four millions dollars the cost of 10 projects which shall be located at the STEM at Blodgett Middle School, the Corcoran High School, the Delaware Primary School, the Henninger High School, the Syracuse Latin School, the Lincoln Middle School, the Nottingham High School, the Roberts PreK-8 School, the Seymour Dual Language Academy and the Webster Elementary School.
Establishes the power plant tax assessment reserve fund to reserve against, lessen or prevent increases in the school district's real property tax levy and/or tax rate resulting from decreases in revenue or taxes or a significant shift in tax liability due to a tax certiorari settlement or judgment; defines terms; makes related provisions.
Prohibits the use of corporal punishment, as defined by the commissioner of education, in schools.
Authorizes the Carmel Central School District to offer a separate referendum on the question of term limits for members of the Carmel Central School District board of education.
Requires local boards of education, BOCES, charter schools and non public schools to adopt policies to promote student voter registration and pre-registration, including procedures for providing access to voter registration and pre-registration applications during the school year and assistance with filing such applications and informing students of the state requirements for voter registration and pre-registration.
Requires schools to provide teachers with written informational material on the use of epinephrine auto-injectors.
Replaces certain instances of the words handicapping conditions with disabilities in relation to children with such disabilities.
Relates to student governments in secondary schools that have no districtwide or school building peer selected student government.
Establishes that instruction in financial education be provided to pupils in grades nine through twelve; establishes what should be included in such curriculum including the basics of financial planning, budgeting, borrowing, interest rates, personal insurance policies, etc.
Relates to permissible activities for athletic associations, conferences, or other groups or organizations with authority over intercollegiate athletics and to the definition of student-athlete; makes a technical change.
Permits the Auburn enlarged city school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Approves certain employee benefit costs for transportation employees for the Goshen Central school district.
Relates to the contracting of indebtedness by city school districts; removes provisions relating thereto.
Replaces certain instances of the words handicapping conditions with disabilities in relation to children with such disabilities.
Relates to student governments in secondary schools that have no districtwide or school building peer selected student government.
Requires local boards of education, BOCES, charter schools and non public schools to adopt policies to promote student voter registration and pre-registration, including procedures for providing access to voter registration and pre-registration applications during the school year and assistance with filing such applications and informing students of the state requirements for voter registration and pre-registration.
Requires schools to provide teachers with written informational material on the use of epinephrine auto-injectors.
Requires schools to include instruction on the prevention of co-occurring disorders as an integral part of their health education programs.
Permits the Cleveland Hill union free school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Provides for the election of three Regents of the University of the State of New York