Committee

New York City Education

Bill Bill Name Progress Referral Date
S00079 Requires that all special education students attending schools scheduled to be closed or to undergo a significant change be assigned to new schools prior to the implementation of the closing or change. Crossed Over 01/08/2025
S00082 Relates to the number and duties of assistant principals to be assigned to the schools in the city school district of the city of New York. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00521 Provides test preparation for students in the seventh grade and eighth grade intending to apply to take the specialized high school admissions test. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00552 Requires the state comptroller and the comptroller of the city of New York to coordinate the scheduling and performance of audits of charter schools in the city of New York. In Committee 01/08/2025
S00667 Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch. In Committee 01/08/2025
S01018 Relates to employment contracts between school bus workers and the department of education in a city with at least one million inhabitants. In Committee 01/08/2025
S01065 Establishes Three King's day as a school holiday for all public schools in a city school district of a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants. In Committee 01/08/2025
S01325 Requires the school district of location shall annually provide written notice to all parents or persons in parental relation to students with disabilities attending nonpublic schools within their district regarding the process for requesting special education services; relates to the denial of services in a city having a population of one million or more for the 2024--2025 school year. Crossed Over 03/14/2025
S01420 Limits the reimbursement rate paid by the city school district to a charter school for charter school facilities expansion in a city school district located in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants by changing "actual rental costs" to "reasonable rental costs"; defines "reasonable rental costs". In Committee 01/09/2025
S01510 Allows the president of the citywide council on high schools to participate in the selection of the members of the board of education elected by the community district education council presidents. Crossed Over 01/10/2025
S01760 Establishes a grant program for public K-12 schools which are eligible for support provided under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, for the purposes of installing laundry equipment for facilities for use by students and parents or guardians of students. In Committee 01/13/2025
S02593 Allows the chancellor of the city district of the city of New York to require pupils in public schools in the borough of Brooklyn or in the borough of Queens to attend school on anniversary day, but to declare a holiday for such pupils on an alternate date in the same school year to allow for the celebration of a significant cultural or religious holiday. In Committee 01/21/2025
S02594 Requires any public school located in a city with a population of one million or more to offer a remote learning option to all primary and secondary students when such public school is located in a county determined by the federal centers for disease control and prevention to have a substantial or high level of community transmission of any illness deemed by the federal centers for disease control and prevention to be an outbreak. In Committee 01/21/2025
S02647 Provides that in a city with a population of one million or more, where a student is applying to attend a public elementary or middle school and such student has a sibling who already attends such school, such student whose application is pending shall be given preference for admission. In Committee 01/22/2025
S03064 Requires district leadership teams and school leadership teams to include student representatives; provides who should appoint such representatives. In Committee 01/23/2025
S03067 Establishes the citywide leadership team to ensure that parents' and students' voices are represented in all education decision-making, ensure education policies considered or implemented are conducive to promoting student achievement and enhancing the overall quality of education for students attending public schools in the city of New York, and include all stakeholders at all stages of the decision-making process. In Committee 01/23/2025
S03786 Includes remedial services, homework or childcare as the transportation responsibility of the city school district located in a city having a population of one million or more. Vetoed 01/30/2025
S04011 Establishes a parent and student training center within the City University of New York. In Committee 01/31/2025
S04107 Authorizes the chancellor of the city district to control and operate certain specialized high schools in the city of New York; establishes a commission on middle school achievement to provide guidance, advice, and make recommendations to the chancellor of the city district on matters pertaining to education policy, performance and innovation in New York city middle schools; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof. In Committee 02/03/2025
S04255 Relates to establishing the Beacon School Pilot Program in New York city schools. In Committee 02/03/2025
S04374 Prohibits co-location of a charter school in a public school building in a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants. In Committee 02/04/2025
S04449 Relates to making a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more eligible for transitional aid for charter school payments. In Committee 02/05/2025
S05550 Authorizes high school students to vote on city-wide education councils regardless of age. In Committee 02/24/2025
S05797 Relates to metered in funding for rental assistance for all New York city charter students. In Committee 03/03/2025
S06032 Requires the chancellor of the NYC department of education to establish a pilot program for the purpose of providing frozen take-home meals to certain children located in the city of New York; requires the chancellor of the NYC department of education to select one NYC public school from each borough to participate in such pilot program. In Committee 03/05/2025
S06036 Creates a city-wide council for district seventy-five to advise and comment on educational or instructional policies involving district seventy-five services. In Committee 03/05/2025
S06138 Enacts the "New York city Caribbean steel pan educational music program act"; requires community school boards in the city of New York to authorize, where reasonable, the use of school grounds in the summer months for use by any steel pan music organization to practice for the Labor Day Parade (West Indian Carnival). In Committee 03/05/2025
S06143 Provides for uniform land use review procedure to apply to the locating of any charter schools in New York city. In Committee 03/05/2025
S06191 Provides that the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha shall be school holidays in the city school district of the city of New York. In Committee 03/06/2025
S06236 Relates to delaying the implementation of class size reduction plans and including additional exemptions to class size targets; provides such plans shall begin in September 2031 and be achieved by September 2036; adds gifted and talented schools and programs, screened admissions schools and programs, portfolio and specialized high schools and advanced placement classes; requires parents at each respective school be included on any discussions regarding class size exemptions. In Committee 03/07/2025
S06355 Allows parents of a child who has ever received services through an English as a second language program to serve as a member of the citywide council on English language learners and of the citywide council on high schools even if the child is no longer enrolled. In Committee 03/11/2025
S06719 Relates to determinations of appropriate educational programs for certain students in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more. In Committee 04/29/2025
S07101 Relates to references by a city school district in a city with a population of one million or more to public holidays, specifically Columbus Day; provides that any literature or document created and/or distributed by such district do the same including school calendars. In Committee 04/01/2025
S07253 Prohibits the housing of migrants in schoolhouses or on such grounds in the New York City community school district system. In Committee 04/07/2025
S07441 Requires compliance with the uniform land use review procedure for the disposition of school property in New York city. In Committee 04/16/2025
S07535 Requires the administration for children's services and New York city public school employees provide a verbal and written warning to students of such student's right to refuse an interview and right to have a supportive adult during the interview. In Committee 04/22/2025
S08266 Relates to providing transportation after four o'clock; provides a formula for aid. In Committee 05/28/2025