What's happening
This bill allows New York school districts and charter schools to set academic eligibility requirements for student participation in extracurricular activities.
Why it matters
Empowers local control. By allowing school districts and charter schools to set their own academic eligibility rules for extracurricular activities, the bill gives communities more autonomy to decide how academics should factor into student participation.
Potential impact on student engagement. Academic eligibility requirements could motivate students to maintain higher grades, but may also risk excluding those who struggle academically from valuable non-academic opportunities like sports, arts, or clubs.
Creates policy variation across schools. Because each district or charter school can set its own standards, students in different areas may face different requirements for participation, potentially affecting equity and access.
Signals academic priorities. This legislation highlights the importance placed on academics by linking them directly to extracurricular involvement, possibly influencing school culture and priorities.
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Set Academic Rules for Activities
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Sponsors
3 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Enacting clause stricken
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Full text
2 pagesUnderlined is new[Struck] is removedOfficial text on nysenate.gov ↗
STATE OF NEW YORK
7815
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 16, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, MAGNARELLI, HOOPER, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HIKIND -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing school districts to establish rules and regulations to determine academic eligibility requirements for school-sponsored extra-curricular activities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 1604 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 43 to read as follows:
43. To authorize policies establishing rules and regulations, as it deems necessary, that determine academic eligibility requirements as a condition for student participation in school-sponsored extracurricular activities.
§ 2. Section 1709 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 43 to read as follows:
43. To authorize policies establishing rules and regulations that determine academic eligibility requirements as a condition for student participation in school-sponsored extracurricular activities.
§ 3. Subdivision 4 of section 2503 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
e. Shall authorize the development of policies that set academic eligibility requirements as a condition for student participation in school-sponsored extracurricular activities.
§ 4. Section 2554 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 28 to read as follows:
28. To authorize policies establishing rules and regulations, as it deems necessary, that determine academic eligibility requirements as a condition for student participation in school-sponsored extracurricular activities.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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§ 5. Section 2590-e of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
3-a. promote policies establishing rules and regulations that determine academic eligibility requirements as a condition for student participation in school-sponsored extracurricular activities.
§ 6. Subdivision 1 of section 2854 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph (d-1) to read as follows:
(d-1) A charter school shall develop and adopt policies establishing student academic eligibility requirements as a conditions to participation in school-sponsored extracurricular activities.
§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however that the amendments to section 2590-e of the education law made by section five 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.
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