New York A 1049: Relates to creating a committee to study ways to reduce the length of standardized tests and increase the test's transparency

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A01049 Summary:

BILL NOA01049A

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SAME ASSAME AS S05088-A

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SPONSORRamos

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COSPNSRBichotte Hermelyn, Simon, Seawright, Hyndman, Meeks, Kelles, Walker, Epstein, Gibbs, Simone,
 Cunningham, Reyes, Solages

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd Ed L, generally

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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.

Go to top A01049 Actions:

BILL NOA01049A

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01/08/2025referred to education

05/23/2025amend and recommit to education

05/23/2025print number 1049a

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1049--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, SIMON, SEAWRIGHT, HYND-
 MAN, MEEKS, KELLES, WALKER, EPSTEIN, GIBBS, SIMONE, CUNNINGHAM, REYES,
 SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education --
 committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
 recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school district diver-
 sity, equity and inclusion officers

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2101 of the education law, as
 2 amended by chapter 107 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 1. Each common school district shall have one or three trustees as the
 5 district determines, a collector except in first class towns and except
 6 as may be otherwise provided by law, a diversity, equity and inclusion
 7 officer, and if the district so decides a treasurer.
 8 § 2. Section 2102 of the education law, as amended by chapter 737 of
 9 the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
 10 § 2102. Qualifications of officers. Every school district officer
 11 must be able to read and write and must be a qualified voter of the
 12 district; and each member of a board of education of a union free school
 13 district, common school district or a central school district shall have
 14 been a resident of the school district, or in the case of a person qual-
 15 ified by subdivision three of section twenty hundred twelve of this
 16 chapter to vote in a district election, a resident of the district or
 17 reservation, for at least one year prior to the election. Notwithstand-
 18 ing the provisions of any other general or special law to the contrary,
 19 a school district treasurer, collector, diversity, equity and inclusion
 20 officer or clerk need not be a resident of the school district to hold
 21 such office in such district.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00413-04-5

 A. 1049--A 2

 1 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 2103 of the education law is amended to
 2 read as follows:
 3 1. No district superintendent or supervisor is eligible to the office
 4 of trustee or member of a board of education, and no trustee or member
 5 of a board of education can hold the office of district clerk, collec-
 6 tor, diversity, equity and inclusion officer, treasurer or librarian,
 7 except as otherwise provided by section twenty-one hundred thirty.
 8 § 4. Section 2103 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 9 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
 10 5. An administrative employee of the school district shall be
 11 appointed by the superintendent as the school district diversity, equity
 12 and inclusion officer.
 13 § 5. The part heading of part 2 of article 43 of the education law is
 14 amended to read as follows:
 15 DISTRICT CLERK; TREASURER; DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
 16 OFFICER; COLLECTOR
 17 § 6. The education law i