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Home/Bills/S 527New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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S 527: Relates to revisions to charter schools that would expand the grades served at such charter schools.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified May 12, 2026

What S 527 does, verified May 12, 2026

The bill aims to revise the education law regarding charter schools. It prohibits charter schools from expanding grades served beyond the current school classification, preventing them from serving multiple school classifications such as elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high, or high school. This restriction will apply to proposed revisions submitted after June 1, 2025. The changes will take effect immediately.

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Last action: PRINT NUMBER 527A (2026-05-12)Alert me
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Jabari BrisportCordell CleareKristen GonzalezPeter HarckhamBrad Hoylman-SigalRobert JacksonJessica RamosJulia SalazarJohn Liu
Recent actions4 total · showing 4
May. 12, 2026PRINT NUMBER 527A
May. 12, 2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION
Jan. 07, 2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION
Jan. 08, 2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 216 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 527 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MAYER, BRISPORT, CLEARE, GONZALEZ, HARCKHAM, HOYL- MAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, RAMOS, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to revision to charter schools The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 2852 of the education law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 3 (c) Beginning with proposed revisions submitted to a charter entity 4 after June first, two thousand twenty-five, a charter school may not 5 submit a revision to a charter that would expand the grades served that 6 would cause the school to serve grades levels in more than one of the 7 following school classifications; elementary school, intermediate 8 school, middle school, junior high school, or high school as defined in 9 the regulations of the commissioner. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01410-01-5 
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