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History
- Print number 6784a
- Amend and recommit to education
- Referred to education
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Relates to the allocation of building aid funds to failing and persistently failing schools
In Assembly Committee · Education · Sponsor Patricia Fahy
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Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to the allocation of building aid funds to failing and persistently failing schools
Purpose
To assist schools designated as "struggling" or "persistently struggling" by ensuring their eligibility for state building aid as they seek to implement the community school model.
Summary of provisions
Section 3602 of the Education Law is amended by adding a new subdivision 6-h regarding building aid for struggling and persistently struggling schools. It provides greater flexibility in using building aid for instructional space and community school facility spaces.
Justification
This bill would assist schools designated as "struggling" or "persistently struggling" by ensuring that building aid may be used for shared spaces and classroom space that is needed to support a community school model.
A community school model seeks to make the school a "community hub" which provides wrap-around health care services for students, includes space for the greater community to use, offers adult education classes and career and technical education (CTE) opportunities, and provides a support structure and space for students and for greater community engagement.
The current building aid model pre-dates the concept of community schools and currently provides little or no building aid funding for the shared spaces and support spaces that are important to the community school model. As many of the struggling and persistently struggling schools are in impoverished communities where there is little local tax base, it is difficult for these schools to expand shared spaces to support a community school model and better engage the community in efforts to support and turn around the school.
Legislative history
New bill
Fiscal implications
To be determined
Effective date
The first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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