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A2405Assembly2019-2020 SessionSame asS7118

Loosen Grad Program Admissions

Official title

“Relates to admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs”

Sponsor Deborah GlickAD-66+6 co-sponsorsAffects Education
Status
In Senate Committee
Rules
Impact
4/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

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In Senate · Rules

What's happening

This bill allows alternative criteria, such as interviews and recommendations, for admission to graduate teacher and educational leader programs.

Why it matters

  1. Expands pathways for admission. By allowing criteria such as interviews, recommendation letters, and writing samples, the bill gives candidates with non-traditional academic backgrounds or strengths outside of standardized testing a fairer shot at entering graduate teacher and educational leader programs.

  2. Addresses workforce diversity and linguistic skills. Including the number of languages spoken as a possible admissions factor could encourage more multilingual and diverse candidates to apply, potentially enriching the educational workforce and better serving diverse student populations.

  3. Empowers faculty discretion. The amendment lets faculty in teacher education and educational leadership programs use their professional judgment to identify promising candidates who may not meet strict GPA or standardized test cutoffs but still show strong potential.

  4. Preserves academic standards while adding flexibility. The bill maintains rigorous selection expectations but provides alternatives for assessing candidates’ readiness, which could help address teacher shortages or bring in candidates with unique skills and life experiences.

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Loosen Grad Program Admissions

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Deborah Glick

Assembly Member · Assembly District 66

Chair, Environmental Conservation

History

  1. Committed to rules
  2. Vote reconsidered - restored to third reading
  3. Substitution reconsidered
  4. 3rd reading cal.132
  5. Substituted for S7118
  6. Referred to higher education
  7. Delivered to senate
  8. Passed assembly
  9. Ordered to third reading cal.102
  10. Returned to assembly
  11. Died in senate
  12. Referred to higher education
Show 5 earlier actions
  1. Delivered to senate
  2. Passed assembly
  3. Advanced to third reading cal.185
  4. Reported
  5. Referred to higher education

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S7118Senate

Loosen Teacher Program Entry

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor James Sanders Jr.

Impact 4 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

2405

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 22, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, LUPARDO, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 210-a of the education law, as amended by chapter 454 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:

§ 210-a. Admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs. Each institution registered by the department with graduate-level teacher and leader education programs shall adopt rigorous selection criteria geared to predicting a candidate's academic success in its program, including but not limited to, a minimum score on the graduate record examination or a substantially equivalent admission examination, as determined by the institution, and achievement of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher in the candidate's undergraduate program or deemed qualified by teacher education and educational leader faculty to satisfy alternative criteria, including, but not limited to, the following: 3.0 grade point average in the major or in the last two years of college or in a graduate degree program or graduate-level courses taken before matriculation into a graduate program; or, strength of letters of recommendations from qualified individuals, number of languages spoken, strength of a personal interview and quality of a writing sample; provided, however, such graduate record examination or substantially equivalent admission examination requirement shall in no case apply to certified teachers or school administrators who already hold a graduate degree. Each program may exempt no more than fifteen percent of any incoming class of students from such selection criteria set forth in this section based on a student's demonstration of potential to positively contribute to the teaching profes-

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD05694-01-9

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sion or other extenuating circumstances pursuant to the regulations of the commissioner. A program shall report to the department the number of students admitted pursuant to such exemption and the selection criteria used for such exemptions.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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