Relates to the powers and duties of boards of cooperative educational services. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Enacts the "Place a Child in Every School Seat Act" for the purposes of awareness of and incentives to improve school attendance and retention. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Enacts the "Place a Child in Every School Seat Act of 2011" for the purposes of awareness of and incentives to improve school attendance and retention. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Requires the department of education to establish an education for environmental sustainability program to teach children the importance of conserving and protecting our environment. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Establishes an age-appropriate sex education grant program through the department of health to be a comprehensive age-appropriate program conducted by an eligible applicant; authorizes the commissioner to determine certain topics of instruction and makes provisions for the application of grants. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Requires the commissioner to amend regulations to include medically accurate, age appropriate sexual education in secondary schools. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enter into contracts with public libraries for high-speed telecommunications services. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER

Establishes the education mandate relief act; authorizes the board of education to enter into piggyback contracts with another school district for transportation services and directs BOCES to convene committees to recommend options for school district consolidation and shared services. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes the education mandate relief act; authorizes the board of education to enter into piggyback contracts with another school district for transportation services and directs BOCES to convene committees to recommend options for school district consolidation and shared services. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Provides a constitutional guarantee that the legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free public libraries, wherein all the residents of this state may be provided with public library services. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to amount of apportionments and deficiencies in apportionments of state monies to certain nonpublic schools to reimburse them for their expenses in complying with certain state requirements. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Relates to amount of apportionments and deficiencies in apportionments of state monies to certain nonpublic schools to reimburse them for their expenses in complying with certain state requirements. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Relates to requiring instruction on organ donor awareness in all senior high schools as part of the health education curriculum. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: HEALTH

Requires individuals applying for certification or licensure to be a teacher to complete a course of training in recognizing and responding to incidents of bullying and harassment. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Requires individuals applying for certification or licensure to be a teacher to complete a course of training in recognizing and responding to incidents of bullying and harassment. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Authorizes school districts to purchase curriculum and instructional resources with money that has otherwise been set aside for the purchase of textbooks. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Authorizes school districts to purchase curriculum and instructional resources with money that has otherwise been set aside for the purchase of textbooks. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Relates to the expenditure of prekindergarten program grant funds. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Relates to the expenditure of prekindergarten program grant funds. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: EDUCATION

Includes library systems within the definition of entities that are eligible to apply for local government efficiency grants. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: FINANCE