What's happening
This bill allows English language learners under 21 in regular day school to join employment preparation programs at no extra district cost.
Why it matters
Expands access to job training for young English language learners (ELLs),. potentially helping them gain workforce skills and improve future employment prospects while still in school.
Removes financial barriers for school districts and BOCES. by clarifying that there will be no additional district cost when these ELL students join employment preparation programs, which could encourage more districts to offer or promote these opportunities.
Specifies that participation does not affect other funding calculations. (students are excluded from certain formulas in paragraphs b and h), which may prevent unintended financial consequences for schools and ensure resources are allocated fairly.
Targets a group that often faces systemic barriers,. aiming to promote educational equity and potentially reduce dropout rates among ELL youth by connecting academic learning with career preparation.
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Let ELL Students Join Job Programs
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Patrick M. Gallivan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6195
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to employment preparation education programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 3602 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph i to read as follows:
i. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any student under twenty-one years of age who attends regular day school classes and is designated as an English language learner by his or her school district or BOCES program, shall be eligible to participate in an approved employment preparation education program, provided that space is available, at no additional cost to such school district or BOCES; and provided, further, that such students shall not be included under paragraphs b and h of this subdivision.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02745-01-9
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