Requires community district education councils to establish safety hazard advisory review committees

BILL NUMBER:S3761

Title of bill

An act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring community district education councils to establish safety hazard advisory review committees

Purpose or general idea of bill

This bill would allow require Community District Education councils in New York City Department of Education to establish safety hazard advisory review committees.

Summary of provisions

Section 1 adds a new section, 8-a to the education law to requiring community district education councils to establish safety hazard advisory review committees.

Justification

Community District Education Councils were created to give the parents of the community a voice as Mayoral Control of the schools was established. The councils have been a mechanism for the community and parent groups to express concern about a particular policy directly to the Department of Education. This bill would allow these councils to set up a safety hazard review committees to review conditions along stop routes to schools. These committees would be set up by the CEC's to review variances submitted by individual parents. The committee would review the variance and submit its findings for the Department of Education. This would give the Department of Education a community point of view about hazardous conditions along routes to and from school.

Prior legislative history

A.10725 of 2011-2012.

Fiscal implications

None to the state.

Effective date

First of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become law; provided however that the amendments made to section 2590-e of the education law, by section one of this act shall survive the expiration and reversion of such section as provided in section 34 of chapter 91 of the laws of 2002, as amended.