BILL NUMBER: S3794
SPONSOR: MYRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring schools to
accept credits for educational programs at office of children and family
services facilities as transfer credits
 
PURPOSE OF BILL:
To provide for the transfer of coursework credits from OCFS-operated
educational programs to local schools.
 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends section 112 of the education law by adding a new subdi-
vision 1-a which allows credits awarded by educational programs in
facilities operated by OCFS shall be accepted as transfer credits by any
school within New York State.
Section 2 provides for an immediate effective date.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
OCFS operates schools for the youth who are placed in their care. The
children who dedicate themselves to obtaining an education from these
facilities are often consolidated because the local school district they
are assigned to after they leave OCFS custody will very often refuse to
accept the educational credits they earned from the OCFS facility.
Currently, the principals of hundreds of local schools are asked to make
case-by-case decisions about whether a child's credits will transfer.
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
S3413 of 2023-24: Referred to Education.
S4067 of 2021-22: Referred to Education.
S734 of 2019-20: Referred to Education.
S5707 of 2017-18: Referred to Education.
S1791 of 2015-16: Referred to Education.
S1372 of 2013-14: Referred to Education.
S330 of 2011-12: Referred to Education.
S5628 of 2009-10: Referred to Education.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

Statutes affected:
S3794: 112 education law