What's happening
This bill requires all New York schools to implement a multicultural curriculum and teacher training tailored to their student body’s cultural diversity.
Why it matters
Localizes Curriculum to Student Demographics. By requiring schools to research and tailor their multicultural curriculum to the specific cultural makeup of their own student body, the bill aims to make lessons more relevant and meaningful to students’ lived experiences, rather than using a generic, one-size-fits-all approach.
Mandates Teacher Training for Cultural Competency. The law requires the creation of teacher education programs focused on preparing educators to effectively teach and interact with students from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, potentially improving classroom relationships and student engagement.
Shifts Accountability to Schools and State. Schools are not only required to implement the curriculum but also to actively observe and study their own students’ cultural backgrounds, placing ongoing responsibility on both local educators and the state education department to ensure curricula remain responsive and inclusive.
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Require Multicultural School Curriculum
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Require Multicultural School Curriculum
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Kevin S. Parker
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3292
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a multi-cultural curriculum
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 804-e to read as follows:
§ 804-e. Multi-cultural curriculum. 1. All schools including elementary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools shall be required to teach a multi-cultural curriculum which shall be set out in rules and regulations to be promulgated by the commissioner.
2. In formulating the rules and regulations for a multi-cultural curriculum the commissioner shall allow for and shall implement rules and regulations which consider the differences in the cultural composition of each school and the commissioner shall allow and direct schools to do research and observation on their own student body in order to particularize multi-cultural education to fit such education to such school.
3. The commissioner shall also promulgate rules and regulations which shall set out a teacher education program in order to train teachers and educators to teach and interact with students of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04570-01-7
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