New York A 4446: Establishes a spending cap and increases the maximum capacity of the rainy day fund

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A04446 Summary:

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Add Art 39-A §§1920 - 1922, Ed L

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Authorizes two or more school districts in certain counties to enter into a contract to establish and operate a regional high school.

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02/04/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4446

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. MOLITOR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing the estab-
 lishment of regional high school districts in certain counties

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

 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 39-A
 2 to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 39-A
 4 REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOLS
 5 Section 1920. Regional high school; establishment.
 6 1921. Operation by board of cooperative educational services.
 7 1922. Additional state aid.
 8 § 1920. Regional high school; establishment. A regional high school
 9 may be formed by a contract entered into by two or more school
 10 districts, which are city school districts in cities having a population
 11 of less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants, central
 12 school districts, union free school districts and/or common school
 13 districts, provided that all such school districts are wholly contained
 14 within the same board of cooperative educational services supervisory
 15 district, and is wholly contained within any county having between one
 16 hundred thirty-four thousand nine hundred three and one hundred thirty-
 17 four thousand nine hundred seven inhabitants according to the two thou-
 18 sand twenty decennial federal census. Except as otherwise provided in
 19 this article, the provisions of this chapter as to the courses of study,
 20 the qualifications and employment of teachers and other staff, and the
 21 maintenance, conduct and supervision of public schools in central school
 22 districts shall apply to a regional high school. Any contract for a
 23 regional high school shall be subject to approval by the commissioner
 24 and shall not be subject to approval by the electors of the school

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08314-01-5

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 1 districts electing to form the regional high school, and the regional
 2 high school and the contract shall meet the following requirements:
 3 1. the contract shall be for a period of not less than two school
 4 years and, with the approval of the commissioner, may be renewed by
 5 mutual agreement of the boards of education;
 6 2. the regional high school shall commence operations on the first of
 7 July, and shall not cease operations before the thirtieth of June in any
 8 school year;
 9 3. the contract shall state whether the regional high school will be
 10 operated by one of the participating school districts, hereinafter
 11 referred to in this article as the "hosting school district," or by the
 12 board of cooperative educational services pursuant to a contract author-
 13 ized by section nineteen hundred twenty-one of this article;
 14 4. the contract shall specify the manner in which the students of each
 15 participating school district shall be transported to the regional high
 16 school, and the cost of such transportation shall be a charge against
 17 each such participating school district and be funded in the same manner
 18 as transportation provided pursuant to section thirty-six hundred thir-
 19 ty-five of this chapter;
 20 5. such regional high school shall operate its own extra-curricular
 21 activities and inter-scholastic athletics, and the students attending
 22 such regional high school shall be eligible to participate in such
 23 activities and athletics and shall not be eligible to participate in
 24 such activities and at