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- Committed to rules
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.748
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
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Rescinds the anniversary day school holiday for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens; repealer
In Assembly Committee · Education · Sponsor Edward Braunstein
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4555
Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to rescinding the anniversary day school holiday for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens; and to repeal section 2586 of the education law relating thereto
Purpose
To rescind the anniversary day school holiday for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.
Summary of provisions
Section 1. Section 2586 of the education law is repealed.
Section 2. Subdivision 2-a of section 3635 of the education law, as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 2005, is amended.
Justification
The first celebration of Anniversary Day (as it was then called) occurred on May 28, 1861, when the 32nd Anniversary of the Sunday School Union was commemorated. When Brooklyn and Queens joined New York City in 1898, there was pressure to include Queens. In 1905, the Legislature enacted a law making the first Thursday in June an annual holiday for Brooklyn's public school children to celebrate "the founding of the Sunday School movement in Brooklyn." Fifty years later, as more of the population moved to Queens, the name was changed to Brooklyn-Queens Day.
The original emphasis has shifted and the religious origins of Brooklyn-Queens Day have been ignored. It has become a secular holiday for which schools still remain closed.
There is no reason to continue this anachronistic holiday in State statutes when there is pressure to increase the time students spend in school. For this reason, schools should not be closed.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
First of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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