What's happening
This bill requires school districts to establish special day schools or rooms for school delinquents, with exceptions for violent or disruptive students and allows districts to share resources and costs.
Why it matters
Mandates, rather than merely allows, that all school districts provide dedicated educational settings (special day schools or rooms) for students labeled as "school delinquents". this shifts the approach from optional to compulsory, potentially ensuring more consistent access to alternative education but also raising questions about resources and implementation.
Specifies clear exceptions for students whose violent or highly disruptive behavior poses safety or educational risks to others, directing districts to use other disciplinary procedures for these cases. this attempts to balance the need for alternative education with safety concerns, but could result in some students being excluded from these settings.
Enables and encourages school districts to collaborate by sharing facilities and transportation costs for these special schools or rooms. this could reduce financial and logistical burdens for smaller or less-resourced districts, possibly leading to more regional solutions and improved efficiency.
May impact the way districts allocate resources, train staff, and design programs for at-risk students, potentially leading to more specialized interventions but also raising concerns about stigma, segregation, or equity in educational opportunities.
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Who cares
City and school district authorities
The bill would require them to establish special day schools or set aside public school rooms for students classified as school delinquents, rather than merely allow them to do so.
Students classified as school delinquents
The bill would require instruction in those schools or rooms, with exceptions for violent or repeated delinquent behavior posing specified unreasonable risks that would trigger procedures under subdivision three.
Teachers and students in special day schools
The bill would provide exceptions when a student's violence poses an unreasonable risk to them or repeated delinquent behavior poses an unreasonable risk to other children's education.
School districts sharing special education spaces
The bill would allow districts to share these special schools or rooms, cooperate in creating them and, where appropriate, share student transportation costs.
Headline styles
Require Special Classes for Delinquents
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Sponsors
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History
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
372
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to special day schools and the instruction of school delinquents
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3214 of the education law, as amended by chapter 181 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
2. Special day schools. The school authorities of any city or school district [may] shall establish schools or set apart rooms in public school buildings for the instruction of school delinquents, and fix the number of days per week and the hours per day of required attendance, which shall not be less than is required of minors attending the full time day schools. Such schools or rooms shall be used for the instruction of school delinquents, except when a student's violent behavior has made such student an unreasonable risk to the teachers and students in such schools or rooms, or when the student's delinquent activity continues to repeat while in attendance at such school or room such that the student's behavior poses an unreasonable risk to the education of the other children in such school or room, in which case the city or school district shall follow the procedures set forth in subdivision three of this section. Two or more school districts may contract to share special schools or special school rooms established pursuant to this subdivision. A school district shall be authorized to use a special school or special school rooms established by another district, or two or more districts may cooperate in the creation of such special school or school rooms. Such school districts may also, where appropriate, share costs associated with the transportation of students to and from shared special schools.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July 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.
LBD03574-01-9
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