BILL NUMBER: S9912
SPONSOR: ADDABBO
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to providing school
application preference when a student is applying to the same public
elementary or middle school as a sibling
 
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this bill is to provide families with an equitable oppor-
tunity to send their children to the same public elementary or middle
school in a city with a population of one million or more. This bill
could help to avoid the logistic, economic, and emotional difficulties
families face with the impossibility of dropping off and picking up
children from two difference schools at the same time.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Amends Education Law by adding section 3203-a
Section 2. The effective date
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.