S330-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO EDUCATION
• Jan 5, 2011: REFERRED TO EDUCATION

S330-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S330

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the education law, in relation to credits for educational
achievement in office of children and family services facilities

PURPOSE OF BILL:
To provide for the transfer of coursework credits from OCFS operated
educational programs to local schools.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section one adds a new subdivision 1-a to Education Law � 112 to state
that credits awarded by educational programs in facilities operated
by OCFS shall be accepted as transfer credits by any school within
New York State.

Section two provides for an immediate effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
OCFS operates schools for the youth who are placed in their care. The
children who dedicate themselves to obtaining an education from these
facilities are often consolidated because the local school district
they are assigned to after they leave OCFS custody will very often
refuse to accept the educational credits they earned from the OCFS
facility. Currently, principals of hundreds of local schools are
asked to make case by case decisions about whether a child's credits
will transfer.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2009-2010: S.5268 - Referred to Education Committee

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This legislation would take effect immediately.

S330-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                          330
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 (PREFILED)
 January 5, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  credits  for  educa
 tional  achievement  in office of children and family services facili
 ties
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1.

Section 112 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 1-a to read as follows:

 1-A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, CRED
 ITS  AWARDED  BY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS PROVIDED BY FACILITIES OPERATED BY
 THE OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES SHALL BE ACCEPTED AS TRANSFER
 CREDITS BY ANY SCHOOL WITHIN NEW YORK STATE.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03516-01-1

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