What's happening
This bill requires biennial reporting on educational outcomes for homeless students and development of a policy to improve their support.
Why it matters
Increases state accountability. by requiring detailed, biennial reports on the academic performance and outcomes of homeless students—including assessment scores, graduation rates, and disciplinary data—helping identify where support is most needed.
Focuses on equity and transparency. by mandating that data be broken down by race, ethnicity, income, special education status, language proficiency, and gender, which can reveal disparities and guide targeted interventions.
Promotes collaboration and expertise. by requiring the state to work with community organizations and experts on homelessness to shape educational policies, ensuring that supports for homeless students are informed by real-world experience and best practices.
Seeks better use of federal resources. by directing attention to how Title I funding can be more effectively used to support homeless students, potentially unlocking additional supports and services for this vulnerable group.
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Help Homeless Students Succeed
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
9 Co-sponsors
3 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to education
- Referred to 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.
Track Homeless Student Progress
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Simcha Felder
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3909
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN, JEAN-PIERRE, DE LA ROSA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless school age children
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 3209 of the education law is renumbered subdivision 12 and two new subdivisions 10 and 11 are added to read as follows:
10. a. By January thirty-first, two thousand ` twenty-one, and every odd-numbered year thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the governor and the legislature a report including, but not limited to:
(1) the number of identified homeless school age children enrolled in public schools;
(2) the academic performance and educational outcomes of homeless school age children, including but not limited to the following:
(i) student scores on the statewide administered academic assessments;
(ii) English language proficiency;
(iii) dropout rates;
(iv) four-year adjusted graduation rate;
(v) five-year adjusted graduation rate;
(vi) absenteeism rates;
(vii) truancy rates, if available; and
(viii) suspension and expulsion data.
b. The data reported pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision must include state and district-level information and must be disaggregated by at least the following subgroups of school age children: white, black, Hispanic, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian, Pacific Islander/Hawaiian Native, low income, transitional bilingual, migrant, special education, and gender.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02611-01-9
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11. The commissioner, in collaboration with experts from community organizations on homelessness and homeless education policy, shall develop a homeless education policy on how to better provide services and support to homeless school age children and on how to utilize federal title I funding.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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