S 881: Requires the city university of New York and state university of New York have education programs for prospective teachers, administrators, and counselors for teaching immigrant-origin students that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion, and is multilingual.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 881 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring colleges and universities in the state to adopt a policy that requires students in programs for teaching, school administration, or counseling to have a curriculum that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion, and is multilingual for teaching immigrant-origin students The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 6206 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 24 to read as follows: 3 24. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the 4 board of trustees shall update course curriculum as necessary to require 5 senior colleges and community colleges within the city university 6 include, within all education programs for teachers, administrators and 7 counselors, the topics of local, state and national immigration policy 8 and immigrant integration and how to best educate immigrant-origin 9 students with different status in ways that promote diversity, equity 10 and inclusion, and are multilingual. 11 As used in this subdivision: 12 a. "diversity, equity and inclusion" includes, but is not limited to, 13 cultural sensitivity, and awareness of conscious and unconscious biases; 14 and 15 b. "multilingual" means that the person speaks or understands a 16 language other than English and possibly speaks or understands little or 17 no English, and may require support in order to become proficient in 18 English. 19 § 2. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new 20 subdivision 2-b to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02954-01-5 
 S. 881 2 1 2-b. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the 2 state university trustees shall update course curriculum as necessary to 3 require state universities or colleges to include, within all education 4 programs for teachers, administrators and counselors, the topics of 5 local, state and national immigration policy and immigrant integration 6 and how to best educate immigrant-origin students with different status 7 in ways that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, and are multilin- 8 gual. 9 As used in this subdivision: 10 a. "diversity, equity and inclusion" includes, but is not limited to, 11 cultural sensitivity, and awareness of conscious and unconscious biases; 12 and 13 b. "multilingual" means that the person speaks or understands a 14 language other than English and possibly speaks or understands little or 15 no English, and may require support in order to become proficient in 16 English. 17 § 3. The education law is amended by adding a new section 815-a to 18 read as follows: 19 § 815-a. Immigration and immigrant integration education. Notwith- 20 standing any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the trustees or 21 other governing board of each independent non-profit college which main- 22 tains a campus or other property for educational purposes chartered by 23 the regents or incorporated by special act of the legislature shall 24 update course curriculum as necessary to require within all education 25 programs for teachers, administrators and counselors, topics of local, 26 state and national immigration policy and immigrant integration and how 27 to best educate immigrant-origin students with different status in ways 28 that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, and are multilingual. 29 As used in this subdivision: 30 1. "diversity, equity and inclusion" includes, but is not limited to, 31 cultural sensitivity, and awareness of conscious and unconscious biases; 32 and 33 2. "multilingual" means that the person speaks or understands a 34 language other than English and possibly speaks or understands little or 35 no English, and may require support in order to become proficient in 36 English. 37 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.