New York A 4595: Amends the membership of the New York city water board to include the five borough presidents

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A04595 Summary:

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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.

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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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 4595

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing certain
 statewide literacy education programs

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

 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding 4 new
 2 subdivisions 63, 64, 65, and 66 to read as follows:
 3 63. The commissioner shall establish standards for an early education
 4 program to be provided by a school district to children in the district
 5 aged four and five years old. Such program shall include:
 6 (a) standards for a locally designed, evidence-based program that
 7 meets Head Start 1 Program Performance Standards and other federal stan-
 8 dards required for early education programs to receive federal funding;
 9 (b) a requirement that a teacher in charge of a program hold a valid
 10 teaching certificate from the state of New York; and either
 11 (i) have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credit hours in
 12 early childhood education or complete the minimum credit hours within
 13 two years of the date the teacher's employment with the early education
 14 program begins; or
 15 (ii) have two or more years of experience teaching kindergarten or
 16 another early education program and have completed additional coursework
 17 related to reading instruction, as required by the department;
 18 (c) developmentally appropriate objectives for children four and five
 19 years of age;
 20 (d) accommodations for the needs of all early education children and
 21 their families regardless of socioeconomic circumstances; and
 22 (e) standards for day in session requirements appropriate for children
 23 four and five years of age.
 24 64. (a) The commissioner shall design and implement a statewide
 25 parents as teachers program for the benefit of children who are under

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 1 five years of age. The program shall provide a system of early childhood
 2 education that:
 3 (i) is evidence-based;
 4 (ii) involves parents;
 5 (iii) is consistent with available research and best practices for
 6 high quality early childhood education;
 7 (iv) incorporates guidelines adopted by the department for early
 8 learning that:
 9 (A) enhance school readiness;
 10 (B) increase parent understanding of child development and develop-
 11 mental milestones;
 12 (C) increase identification of health problems and developmental
 13 delays through regular screenings; and
 14 (D) increase parental involvement; and
 15 (v) provides for effective and efficient coordination with or expan-
 16 sion of early education programs operating in the state, to the extent
 17 permitted by law.
 18 (b) A school district shall, to the extent space is needed and avail-
 19 able, provide for the use of a room in a school at no charge to support
 20 the program established under this subdivision. The department shall
 21 develop and enter into local partnerships to implement the program
 22 established under this subdivision.
 23 65. (a) The commissioner shall establish a reading program to provide
 24 direct support for and intervention in intensive reading intervention
 25 services annually in the lowest-performing twenty-five percent of
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