File #: Int 1347-2016    Version: Name: Requiring DOE to distribute information regarding the gifted and talented programs and exam.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Education
On agenda: 11/16/2016
Enactment date: 7/22/2017 Law number: 2017/121
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to distribute information regarding the gifted and talented programs and exam
Sponsors: Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Ruben Wills, Ritchie J. Torres, Donovan J. Richards, Laurie A. Cumbo, Rosie Mendez, Margaret S. Chin, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Helen K. Rosenthal, Mathieu Eugene, Carlos Menchaca, Ben Kallos, Stephen T. Levin, Inez D. Barron, Daniel Dromm , Andrew Cohen, Deborah L. Rose, Mark Levine, Antonio Reynoso, Mark Treyger
Council Member Sponsors: 20
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Education (DOE) to distribute information regarding the DOE gifted and talented program, exam, and application process to the parents of any student enrolled in pre-kindergarten in a DOE school or in a school that the DOE contracts with to provide pre-kindergarten by November 1st of each year.
Attachments: 1. Legislative History Report, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1347-A, 3. Summary of Int. No. 1347, 4. Int. No. 1347, 5. November 16, 2016 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 6. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-16-16, 7. Committee Report 4/19/17, 8. Hearing Testimony 4/19/17, 9. Hearing Transcript 4/19/17, 10. Proposed Int. No. 1347-A - 6/20/17, 11. Committee Report 6/20/17, 12. Hearing Transcript 6/20/17, 13. June 21, 2017 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 14. Fiscal Impact Statement, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 6-21-17, 16. Int. No. 1347-A (FINAL), 17. Letter to Mayor, 18. Local Law 121, 19. Minutes of the Recessed Stated Meeting of June 6, 2017 held on June 21, 2017, 20. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - June 21, 2017
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
7/22/2017ARobert E. Cornegy, Jr. Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/21/2017ARobert E. Cornegy, Jr. City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/21/2017ARobert E. Cornegy, Jr. City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/20/2017*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Education Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/20/2017*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Education Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/20/2017*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Education Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/20/2017ARobert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Education Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/19/2017*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Education Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/19/2017*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Education Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/16/2016*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/16/2016*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1347-A

 

By Council Members Cornegy, Wills, Torres, Richards, Cumbo, Mendez, Chin, Rodriguez, Rosenthal, Eugene, Menchaca, Kallos, Levin, Barron, Dromm, Cohen, Rose, Levine, Reynoso and Treyger

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to distribute information regarding the gifted and talented programs and exam

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Title 21-A of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 12 to read as follows:

Chapter 12

Distribution of Gifted and Talented Program Information and Exam Materials

§ 21-974 Distribution of gifted and talented program information and exam materials. 

a. For the purposes of this section, the term “student” means any pupil who is enrolled in pre-kindergarten in any school of the city school district of the city of New York or in an early education center with which the department contracts to provide pre-kindergarten.

b. No later than November 1, 2017, and annually thereafter no later than November 1 of each year, the department shall distribute to the parents of each student information regarding the department’s gifted and talented programs, examination and application process.

                     §2.                     This local law takes effect immediately.

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