New York A 3097: Provides for the establishment of police training high schools in certain city school districts and provides for further education and employment

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A03097 Summary:

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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.

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01/23/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3097

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 23, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the civil service law, in relation
 to providing for police training high schools in certain city school
 districts and making provisions for their graduates' further education
 and recruitment

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The section heading of section 2555 of the education law,
 2 such section as renumbered by chapter 762 of the laws of 1950, is
 3 amended and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows:
 4 Kindergartens, nursery [and], night schools and police training high
 5 schools.
 6 4. a. Each school district subject to the provisions of this article
 7 may establish a police training high school or police training program
 8 in an existing high school within its district, except that the city of
 9 New York may establish such a high school in each of its boroughs. Such
 10 high schools or programs shall serve students in grades nine through
 11 twelve and shall provide, in addition to the standard high school
 12 curriculum otherwise prescribed by law, specialized courses containing
 13 education and training to prepare students for admission to police acad-
 14 emies and careers as police officers.
 15 b. Guidelines for the curriculum for such police education and train-
 16 ing courses shall be prescribed by the commissioner, in consultation
 17 with the division of criminal justice services and the municipal police
 18 training council. Each high school or program may further develop its
 19 own curriculum in consultation with a unit of the state university of
 20 New York or the city university of New York having a criminal justice
 21 school or program.
 22 c. Such high schools or programs shall serve students living in police
 23 precincts having high juvenile delinquency rates. School authorities

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06790-01-5

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 1 shall recruit students from such areas. Each class shall contain no more
 2 than twenty students, and each high school or program shall contain no
 3 more than twenty classes.
 4 d. The police training curriculum shall include a summer school compo-
 5 nent. This component shall be offered at one or more of the campuses of
 6 the city university of New York or the state university of New York
 7 having programs in criminal justice. Necessary arrangements therefor
 8 shall be made by the commissioner in consultation with the chancellors
 9 of such universities. The commissioner may, in their discretion, arrange
 10 for a summer school component to be offered at a community college.
 11 § 2. The section heading of section 2514 of the education law, as
 12 added by chapter 762 of the laws of 1950, is amended and a new subdivi-
 13 sion 4 is added to read as follows:
 14 Kindergartens, nursery [and], night schools and police training high
 15 schools.
 16 4. a. Each school district subject to the provisions of this article,
 17 in a city having a population of one hundred thousand or more, may
 18 establish a police training high school or police training programs in
 19 an existing high school within its district, except that