A 1881: Requires the New York city department of education to create more gifted and talented programs and classes in all school districts with elementary kindergarten through fifth grade and intermediate sixth through eighth grade with four or more classes per grade for students who shall gain entry through academic merit rather than through an admissions examination; authorizes automatic admission to a gifted and talented program in intermediate sixth through eighth grade for those students in elementary grades kindergarten through fifth grade who are currently enrolled in such program; makes related provisions.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1881 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, DINOWITZ, REYES, SAYEGH, COOK, DeSTEFANO, BRAUNSTEIN, HEVESI, HYNDMAN, CRUZ, RIVERA, WEPRIN, WILLIAMS, McDO- NOUGH, DAVILA, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York city department of education to create more gifted and talented programs and classes The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended 2 by adding a new section 21-974.1 to read as follows: 3 § 21-974.1 Gifted and talented programs and classes. Notwithstanding 4 any other provision of law, rule, regulation or local law to the contra- 5 ry, the department shall direct: 6 a. All schools with elementary kindergarten through fifth grade with 7 four or more classes per grade shall have at least one class per grade 8 for top performing students who gain entry through academic merit rather 9 than through an admissions examination. All schools with intermediate 10 sixth through eighth grade with four or more classes per grade shall 11 have at least one class per grade for top performing students who gain 12 entry through academic merit rather than through an admissions examina- 13 tion. 14 b. All school districts shall have at least one district gifted and 15 talented program for elementary kindergarten through fifth grade with 16 admissions based on an objective examination. All school districts shall 17 have at least one district gifted and talented program for intermediate 18 sixth through eighth grade with admissions based on an examination that 19 uses a competitive and objective measure of scholastic achievement; 20 provided, however, that any student in a gifted and talented program for 21 elementary kindergarten through fifth grade pursuant to this subdivision EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05005-01-5 
 A. 1881 2 1 shall receive automatic admission to a gifted and talented program for 2 intermediate sixth through eighth grade. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 4 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 5 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 6 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 7 completed on or before such effective date.