Int. No. 450
By Council Member Dromm
Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to report information regarding students in grades three through eight receiving academic intervention services
Body
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Title 21-A of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 21 to read as follows:
Chapter 21. Reporting on Academic Intervention Services
? 21-988 Reporting on academic intervention services.
a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section only, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
Academic intervention services. The term "academic intervention services" has the meaning set forth in section 100.1(g) of chapter II of title 8 of the New York codes, rules and regulations.
Proficient score. The term "proficient score" means a scale score of level three on a grade three through eight English language arts or mathematics State assessment.
Student. The term "student" means any pupil under the age of twenty-one as of September first of the academic period being reported, who does not have a high school diploma and who is enrolled in grades three through eight in a school of the city school district of the city of New York.
Threshold scale score. The term "threshold scale score" means the score established by the New York state department of education pursuant to section 100.2(ee) of chapter II of title 8 of the New York codes, rules and regulations.
b. Not later than November 1, 2017, and annually thereafter on or before November 1, the department shall submit to the speaker of the council and post conspicuously on the department's website a report that shall include but not be limited to the following:
1. A description of the department's policy for determining eligibility for academic intervention services as require...
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