Prohibits secondary schools and higher education institutions from withholding student transcripts for failure to pay tuition. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: EDUCATION

Provides for a gun violence prevention program in the public schools; provides that the program is to be developed by the department of education in conjunction with other state agencies and educational organizations and is to be made available to schools for use in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade; provides for a report to the governor and the legislature on the program; enacts the "gun violence prevention act". / Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: EDUCATION

Directs the commissioner of education to create a pilot program to improve physical education/physical activity programs in certain schools. / Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: EDUCATION

Requires persons in parental relation with a child of elementary school age to attend parent support programs; completion of four workshops one of which shall be related to physical, emotional and sexual abuse of children, shall be a requirement for the child's advancement to seventh grade. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes the Asian Lunar New Year day as a school holiday for all city school districts of cities of one million inhabitants or more, with an Asian population of seven and one-half percent or more; uses the year 2000 federal decennial census as the basis for calculation of the Asian population. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: EDUCATION

Requires the administration and the instruction in preparation of the GED examination in the Chinese and Korean languages for pupils who are proficient in these languages and of limited English proficiency. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: EDUCATION

Creates a concussion management advisory board to advise the education department on implementation of the best practices related to concussion management; including an interscholastic sports head injury awareness program. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: EDUCATION

Relates to safety training and regulations for the recognition and management of head injuries occurring during school athletic activities. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: EDUCATION

Requires school lunch periods to be scheduled between two and a half hours and four hours after the start of the school day. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes pilot grant program to enable overage, under-credit youth to obtain high school diploma or equivalent. / Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: EDUCATION

Provides for all school buses to be equipped with one or more on-board video monitoring systems, for policies and procedures relating to their use, and for financing their purchase and installation as part of the apportionment of public monies for school transportation expenses. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: EDUCATION

Provides that the commissioner of education shall promulgate rules and regulations which require that students who are in fifth grade or below shall remain in their school building unless released to an authorized person. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: EDUCATION

Increases the maximum mileage limitation for the transportation of children by school districts to and from school from 15 to 25 miles, the cost thereof is to be treated as an ordinary contingent expense; provides for transportation of pupils to nonpublic schools from such students' homes, applies to transportation whether such nonpublic school is within or without the school district. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: EDUCATION

Removes that portion of the town of Chester in the service area of the Albert Wisner memorial public library from such library service area to end the double taxation of certain town residents. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: LIBRARIES AND EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

Allows home schooled children to take certain career education classes at local boards of cooperative educational services districts for free. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: EDUCATION

Provides a program fee option to allow graduate students who have taken at least 30 credits towards the completion of a degree to maintain access to certain facilities within the state university in order to continue a research project or to pursue other academic requirements. / Sponsor: STAVISKY Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Relates to contracts for technology and telecommunications services between boards of cooperative educational services and third-party vendors. / Sponsor: MARTINS Committee: EDUCATION

Authorizes school districts to establish policies prohibiting the wearing of gang-related apparel, markings or symbols. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: EDUCATION

Provides tuition awards to children of veterans who served in armed conflict; amends the current law which provides regents awards to children of certain veterans of wars and disabled veterans in order to provide a free college education to children of any veteran who served in armed conflict regardless of disability status; defines amount of the tuition award, duration, and applicability. / Sponsor: KENNEDY Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Relates to administration of language assessment instruments to students receiving a program of bilingual education or English as a second language. / Sponsor: DILAN Committee: EDUCATION