STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10427 IN ASSEMBLY April 20, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARRON, BLAKE, DAVILA, MONTESANO, ORTIZ, PERRY, SIMON, STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to admission to a special high school in the city school district in a city having a population of one million or more The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five hundred ninety-i 5 of this article, maintain such jurisdiction over city-wide educational 6 policies governing the special, academic, vocational, and other high 7 schools authorized by this article [before the effective date of this 8 section] as the respective community district education councils main- 9 tain over the schools within their jurisdiction, which shall not be 10 construed to require or authorize the day-to-day supervision or the 11 administration of the operations of such schools. Provided, further, 12 the city board shall establish procedures and standards for admission to 13 the special high schools of the city district, which shall consist of 14 multiple measures of student merit including the grade point averages of 15 applicants, culminated student portfolio, teacher recommendations and 16 such other factors as the city board shall determine to be necessary. 17 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, as added by 18 chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: 19 4. subject to the provisions of section twenty-five hundred ninety-i 20 of this article, maintain such jurisdiction over policies governing the 21 special, academic, vocational and other high schools authorized by this 22 article [before the effective date of this section] as the respective 23 community boards maintain over the schools within their jurisdiction, 24 which shall not be construed to require or authorize the day-to-day 25 supervision or the administration of the operations of such schools. 26 Provided, further, the city board shall establish procedures and stand- 27 ards for admission to the special high schools of the city district, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00247-01-7

A. 10427 2 1 which shall consist of multiple measures of student merit including the 2 grade point averages of applicants, culminated student portfolio, teach- 3 er recommendations and such other factors as the city board shall deter- 4 mine to be necessary. 5 § 3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education 6 law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read 7 as follows: 8 (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The special high schools 9 shall include the present schools known as: 10 The Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn 11 Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and 12 the Arts in the borough of Manhattan, and such [further] additional 13 schools which the city board may designate from time to time. The 14 special schools shall be permitted to maintain a discovery program in 15 accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the effective 16 date of this section[; admissions to the special schools shall be 17 conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the 18 effective date of this section]; 19 § 4. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education 20 law, as amended by chapter 720 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read 21 as follows: 22 (b) all specialized [senior] high schools. The special high schools 23 shall include the present schools known as: 24 The Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn 25 Technical High School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and 26 the Arts in the borough of Manhattan, and such [further] additional 27 schools which the city board may designate from time to time. The 28 special schools shall be permitted to maintain a discovery program in 29 accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the effective 30 date of this section[; admissions to the special schools shall be 31 conducted in accordance with the law in effect on the date preceding the 32 effective date of this section]; 33 § 5. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 34 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided that the amend- 35 ments to subdivision 4 of section 2590-g of the education law, made by 36 sections one and two of this act, shall apply to the Stuyvesant high 37 school, the Bronx high school of science, the Brooklyn technical high 38 school, the Staten Island technical high school, the Queens high school 39 for the sciences at York college, the high school for mathematics, 40 science and engineering at City college, the high school for American 41 studies at Lehman college, the Brooklyn Latin school, and all additional 42 schools that the board of education of the city school district of the 43 city of New York designates as special high schools, not including the 44 Fiorello H. LaGuardia high school of music and the arts; provided, 45 further, that the amendments to subdivision 4 of section 2590-g and 46 paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-h of the education law 47 made by sections one and three of this act shall be subject to the expi- 48 ration and reversion of such sections pursuant to section 34 of chapter 49 91 of the laws of 2002, as amended and subdivision 12 of section 17 of 50 chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, as amended respectively when upon such 51 date the provisions of sections two and four of this act shall take 52 effect.