A 2662: Grants priority to charter school applicants with a board of trustees and school administrators that are at least fifty-one percent minority group members.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2662 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to granting priority to charter school applicants with a board of trustees and school adminis- trators that are at least fifty-one percent minority group members The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 9-a of section 2852 of the education law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows: 3 (c-1) For any charter issued or reissued on and after July first, two 4 thousand twenty-five, the board of regents and the board of trustees of 5 the state university of New York shall grant priority to any applicant 6 that demonstrates that its charter school will be managed by a board of 7 trustees and school administrators in which at least fifty-one percent 8 of such board of trustees and school administrators are minority group 9 members as such term is defined in article fifteen-A of the executive 10 law. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05723-01-5