Report of Regents P-12 Education Committee to The Board of Regents

Your P-12 Education Committee held its scheduled meeting on September 13, 2021.  All members were present with the exceptions of Regent Collins and Regent Hakanson.

ACTION ITEMS

Proposed Amendment to Section 114.5 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Prohibition Against Suing Parents or Guardians for Unpaid Meal Fees [P-12 (A) 1]

Your Committee recommends that section 114.5 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education be amended, as submitted, effective September 29, 2021, as an emergency action upon a finding by the Board of Regents that such action is necessary for the preservation of the general welfare to immediately conform the Commissioner’s regulations to Chapter 315 of the Laws of 2021.

The motion passed. 

Charter School Dissolutions [P-12 (A) 2]

Your Committee recommends that the provisional charter of the Achievement Academy Charter School, located in the Albany City School District, County of Albany, State of New York, which was granted by the Board of Regents on December 4, 2004, and extended by the Board of Regents on June 21, 2011, be, and the same hereby is, dissolved; that notice to such effect be given to the board of trustees of the Corporation; and that the Board of Regents directs that any student records and/or any remaining assets of the Corporation be transferred, and that any funds remaining in the possession of the Corporation that can be attributed to public funding be distributed, to each school district having resident children served by the charter school in the last school year in accordance with the provisions of Education Law §2851(2)(t), and that, in accordance with Education Law §220, the Corporation shall, within three (3) months of said dissolution, petition the supreme court in the judicial district where the principal office of the Corporation is or was located for an order directing such disposition.

Your Committee recommends that the provisional charter of the Newburgh Preparatory Charter High School, located in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District, County of Orange, State of New York, which was granted by the Board of Regents on December 11, 2012, be, and the same hereby is, dissolved, that notice to such effect be given to the board of trustees of the Corporation, and that the Board of Regents directs that any student records and/or any remaining assets of the Corporation be transferred, and that any funds remaining in the possession of the Corporation that can be attributed to public funding be distributed, to each school district having resident children served by the charter school in the last school year in accordance with the provisions of Education Law §2851(2)(t), and that, in accordance with Education Law §220, the Corporation shall, within three (3) months of said dissolution, petition the supreme court in the judicial district where the principal office of the Corporation is or was located for an order directing such disposition.

Your Committee recommends that the provisional charter of the Rochester Career Mentoring Charter School, located in the Rochester City School District, County of Monroe, State of New York, which was granted by the Board of Regents on September 13, 2011, be, and the same hereby is, dissolved, that notice to such effect be given to the board of trustees of the Corporation, and that the Board of Regents directs that any student records and/or any remaining assets of the Corporation be transferred, and that any funds remaining in the possession of the Corporation that can be attributed to public funding be distributed, to each school district having resident children served by the charter school in the last school year in accordance with the provisions of Education Law §2851(2)(t), and that, in accordance with Education Law §220, the Corporation shall, within three (3) months of said dissolution, petition the supreme court in the judicial district where the principal office of the Corporation is or was located for an order directing such disposition.

The motion passed. 

Proposed Amendment of Section 100.21 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Providing Flexibility for Accountability Requirements in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis [P-12 (A) 3]

Your Committee recommends that section 100.21 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education be amended, as submitted, as an emergency measure, effective September 14, 2021, upon a finding by the Board of Regents that such action is necessary for the preservation of public health and general welfare in order to provide flexibility for certain regulatory requirements relating to accountability in response to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

The motion passed. 

MOTION FOR ACTION BY FULL BOARD

Mr. Chancellor and Colleagues:  Your P-12 Education Committee recommends, and we move, that the Board of Regents act affirmatively upon each recommendation in the written report of the Committee's deliberations at its meeting on September 14, 2021, copies of which have been distributed to each Regent.

MATTERS NOT REQUIRING BOARD ACTION

Arts Update

Your Committee discussed an update on programs and initiatives related to P-12 arts instruction, including the implementation of the NYS P-12 Learning Standards for the Arts and the Individual Arts Assessment Pathway (IAAP).

Consent Agenda

The Board of Regents took action on the following consent agenda item at its September 2021 meeting.

• Proposed Amendment to Section 100.5 of the Commissioner’s Regulations Relating to the Civic Readiness Pathway to Graduation and the New York State Seal of Civic Readiness
• Proposed Amendment to Section 100.2(ee) of the Commissioner’s Regulations Relating to Providing Flexibility for the Two-Step Identification Process for Academic Intervention Services (AIS) for Students Who Will Be Enrolled in Grades 3-8 for the 2021-22 School Year in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
• Proposed Amendment to Section 175.5 of the Commissioner’s Regulations Relating to Extending the Instructional Hour COVID Waiver to the 2021-22 School Year
• COVID X: Proposed Amendment to Sections 100.2(c), 100.5(h), and 136.3 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Providing Flexibility for Hands-only CPR Instruction, the New York State Seal of Biliteracy, and Health Examinations and Certificates in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
• COVID XI: Proposed Amendment to Sections 52.30, 63.9, 70.4, 74.6, 75.2, 75.5, 76.2, 79-9.3, 79-10.3, 79-11.3, 79-12.3, 80-5.3, 80-5.4, 83.5, 87.2, 87.5, 145-2.15, 155.17, 200.5, 200.6, and 279.15 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Addressing the COVID-19 Crisis