 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6207
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 27, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. R. CARROLL, SAYEGH, DeSTEFANO, GIGLIO, WILLIAMS,
          COLTON, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, LUPARDO, EPSTEIN, DAVILA,  TAYLOR,  McMAHON,
          REYES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, HYNDMAN -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to establishing schools
          dedicated to teaching dyslexic students in certain school districts
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.    The  education  law  is amended by adding a new section
     2  1527-b to read as follows:
     3    § 1527-b. School for the dyslexic. The board of education or  trustees
     4  of  each  community   school district located within a city with a popu-
     5  lation of one million or more shall establish at least  one  school  for
     6  the teaching of students with dyslexia and other phonemic language based
     7  learning  differences. Each such school shall include the utilization of
     8  multi-sensory sequential phonics  techniques  in  their  elementary  and
     9  secondary education curriculum. Teachers and instructors at such schools
    10  shall  have  a minimum of twenty hours of training in the area of multi-
    11  sensory sequential phonics techniques.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    13  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.
                                                                   LBD08875-01-5
Relates to students with dyslexia

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