Expands the total enrollment percentage standard for school districts located in a city with a population of one million or more from applying to initial charter school applications to all charter school applications.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9382
SPONSOR: Hyndman TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to requirements for
approval of charter school applications
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To apply recently enacted oversaturation language concerning the
approval of charter schools to additional decisions such as that of
expanding grades.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This bill applies recently enacted oversaturation language concerning
the approval of charter schools to additional decisions such as that of
expanding grades.
JUSTIFICATION:
The 2023-24 Enacted Budget recognized that no revived Zombie Charter
Schools should be located in areas where there is oversaturation. This
bill extends such logic to schools that seek to expand under existing
charters as well.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None Noted.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9382
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requirements for
approval of charter school applications
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 2852 of the
2 education law, as amended by section 4-a of part A of chapter 56 of the
3 laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
4 (e) for applicants [for an initial charter pursuant to paragraph (b-1)
5 of subdivision nine of this section] in a school district located in a
6 city with a population of one million or more, the total enrollment of
7 students attending charter schools within the community district in
8 which the charter school will be located in the base year is less than
9 or equal to fifty-five percent of the total public school enrollment
10 attending within such community district in the base year.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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