New York S 4107: Authorizes the chancellor of the city district to control and operate certain specialized high schools in the city of New York

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S04107 Summary:

BILL NOS04107 

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SAME ASSAME AS A07752

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSRGOUNARDES, SEPULVEDA

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§2590-a & 2590-h, Ed L; add §21-974.1, NYC Ad Cd

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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.

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BILL NOS04107 

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02/03/2025REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4107

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, GOUNARDES, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 New York City Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the administrative code of the
 city of New York, in relation to authorizing the chancellor of the
 city district to control and operate certain specialized high schools
 in the city of New York and to establish a commission on middle school
 achievement; and providing for the repeal of certain provisions upon
 the expiration thereof

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

 1 Section 1. Section 2590-a of the education law is amended by adding a
 2 new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
 3 11. Specialized high school admissions test. The term "specialized
 4 high school admissions test" shall mean the competitive, objective and
 5 scholastic achievement examination required for admission to specialized
 6 high schools pursuant to section twenty-five hundred ninety-g of this
 7 article in effect prior to the thirty-first of March, nineteen hundred
 8 ninety-seven.
 9 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education
 10 law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read
 11 as follows:
 12 (b) all specialized [senior] high schools.
 13 (i) The [special] specialized high schools shall include the present
 14 schools known as:
 15 (A) The Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn
 16 Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and
 17 the Arts in the borough of Manhattan, Brooklyn Latin School, High School
 18 for Math, Science and Engineering at City College, High School for Amer-
 19 ican Studies at Lehman College, Queens High School for Sciences at York
 20 College, and Staten Island Technical High School; and
 21 (B) such further schools which the city board may designate from time
 22 to time. The special schools shall be permitted to maintain a discovery
 23 program in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05333-01-5

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 1 effective date of this section; admissions to the special schools shall
 2 be conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding
 3 the effective date of this section;
 4 (ii) The chancellor shall establish procedures to ensure that,
 5 commencing in the two thousand twenty-six--two thousand twenty-seven
 6 academic year and for each academic year thereafter, all eighth grade
 7 public school students take the specialized high school admissions test,
 8 provided, however, that:
 9 (A) the specialized high school admissions test takes place during
 10 regular school hours and shall be given no later than the thirty-first
 11 of October of each academic year; and
 12 (B) the procedures shall permit the parent or guardian of an eligible
 13 student to opt such student out of the specialized high school admis-
 14 sions test, at the parent or guardian's discretion for any reason.
 15 (iii) Notwithstanding any other pr