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- Recommit, enacting clause stricken
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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
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Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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