What's happening
This bill requires school districts to establish special day schools or rooms for school delinquents, with exceptions and provisions for sharing resources and costs between districts.
Why it matters
Mandates (rather than simply allows) that all school districts must provide dedicated educational settings for students labeled as "school delinquents," which could fundamentally change how schools address disruptive or challenging student behavior.
Specifies clear exceptions for when students can be removed from these specialized settings if their behavior poses a serious risk to others or disrupts the educational environment, potentially shaping new standards for student discipline and safety.
Explicitly allows and encourages collaboration among school districts to share facilities and transportation costs for these special schools or rooms, which may improve access and efficiency for smaller or resource-limited districts.
Could prompt districts to reassess staffing, training, and resource allocation to comply with the new requirements, affecting budgets, teacher assignments, and support services for both delinquents and the general student population.
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Require Special Day Schools
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STATE OF NEW YORK
656
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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.
LBD02180-01-5
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