NY State Senate Bill 2011-S5777

Senate Bill S5777

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Permits the parents of pupils attending a persistently lowest-achieving school to choose an education intervention model

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Archive: Last Bill Status - Stricken

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Mar 29, 2012	recommit, enacting clause stricken
Jan 04, 2012	referred to education
Jun 15, 2011	referred to rules

2011-S5777 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Add §3613, Ed L

2011-S5777 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the parents of pupils attending a persistently lowest-achieving school to choose an education intervention model.

2011-S5777 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S5777

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the education law, in relation to permitting the parents of
pupils attending a persistently lowest-achieving school to choose an
education intervention model

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Permits the parents of pupils
attending a persistently lowest achieving school in the city of
Buffalo to choose an educational intervention model.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
The education law is amended by adding a new section 3613. This
section would mandate that "PLA" schools identified by the
commissioner as persistently lowest achieving and that are required
to implement a federal education intervention model in accordance
with eligibility requirements established for federal education
improvement grants shall permit the parents or legal guardians of
pupils attending such PLA school to choose which intervention model
shall be implemented: the turnaround model, restart model or
transformation model. Implementation of the desired model would be
based upon at least fifty-five percent of the parents and legal
guardians voting and signing a petition identifying the supported
model. These provisions apply to cities with a population of more

than two hundred twenty-five thousand and less than three hundred
thousand.

JUSTIFICATION:
The District Parenting Council of Buffalo and educational advocates in
WNY support the expansion of parental ability to collaborate and
implement new strategies aimed at turning around PLA schools and
improving upon the 31% graduation rates of black male students within
the city of Buffalo.

Parental trigger legislation gives parents more authority to make the
best choices possible in implementing structural changes to the PLA
school that their children attend. This gives parents of the city of
Buffalo more direct involvement the course of their children's
education.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
None.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2011-S5777 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5777

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 15, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting the parents
  of pupils attending a persistently lowest-achieving school  to  choose
  an education intervention model

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  3613
to read as follows:
  S 3613. PERSISTENTLY LOWEST-ACHIEVING SCHOOLS; INTERVENTION MODELS. 1.
FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL MEAN: A.
"PERSISTENTLY LOWEST-ACHIEVING (PLA) SCHOOLS", THE BOTTOM  FIVE  PERCENT
OF  TITLE ONE SCHOOLS IN IMPROVEMENT, CORRECTIVE ACTION OR RESTRUCTURING
STATUS THAT HAVE THE LOWEST COMBINED PERFORMANCE ON THE STATE'S  ENGLISH
LANGUAGE  ARTS AND MATHEMATICS TESTS AND THAT HAVE FAILED TO DEMONSTRATE
PROGRESS ON THESE ASSESSMENTS.
  B. "INTERVENTION MODELS", FEDERAL EDUCATION INTERVENTION MODELS  WHICH
INCLUDE  THE  TURNAROUND  MODEL,  RESTART MODEL, TRANSFORMATION MODEL OR
CLOSURE MODEL.  IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL  EDUCATION  IMPROVE-
MENT  GRANTS,  THE  UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REQUIRES A PLA
SCHOOL TO EITHER: (1) REDESIGN OR REPLACE SUCH SCHOOL (TURNAROUND);  (2)
CONVERT  SUCH SCHOOL TO A CHARTER SCHOOL OR CONTRACT WITH AN EDUCATIONAL
PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION TO OPERATE SUCH SCHOOL (RESTART); (3) TRANSFORM
SUCH SCHOOL (TRANSFORMATION); OR (4)  CLOSE  SUCH  SCHOOL  AND  TRANSFER
STUDENTS TO HIGHER PERFORMING SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT (CLOSURE).
  2.   ANY   SCHOOL  IDENTIFIED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  AS  PERSISTENTLY
LOWEST-ACHIEVING AND THAT IS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT ONE  OF  FOUR  INTER-
VENTION  MODELS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHED
FOR FEDERAL EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT GRANTS, SHALL PERMIT  THE  PARENTS  OR
LEGAL  GUARDIANS  OF  PUPILS  ATTENDING  SUCH PLA SCHOOL TO CHOOSE WHICH
INTERVENTION MODEL SHALL BE IMPLEMENTED IF AT LEAST  FIFTY-FIVE  PERCENT

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11084-07-1

S. 5777                             2

OF  THE  PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS OF PUPILS ATTENDING SUCH SCHOOL HAVE
VOTED  AND  SIGNED  A  PETITION  IDENTIFYING  ONE  INTERVENTION   MODEL.
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION ELIGIBLE SCHOOLS MAY
CHOOSE TO IMPLEMENT EITHER THE TURNAROUND MODEL, RESTART MODEL OR TRANS-
FORMATION  MODEL AS IDENTIFIED IN PARAGRAPH B OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
SECTION.
  3. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE APPLICABLE TO CITIES HAVING
A POPULATION OF MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND AND LESS THAN
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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