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

Your P-12 Education Committee held its scheduled meeting on February 14, 2022. Regents Ouderkirk and Cashin were excused.

ACTION ITEMS

Renewal Recommendations for Charter Schools Authorized by the Board of Regents [P-12 (A) 1 - Revised]

Your committee recommends that the Board of Regents finds that the Exploration Elementary Charter School for Science and Technology: (1) meets the requirements set out in Article 56 of the Education Law, and all other applicable laws, rules and regulations; (2) the applicant can demonstrate the ability to operate the school in an educationally and fiscally sound manner; (3) granting the application is likely to improve student learning and achievement and materially further the purposes set out in subdivision two of Section twenty-eight hundred fifty of this article; and (4) granting the application would have a significant educational benefit to the students expected to attend the charter school, and the Board of Regents therefore approves the renewal application of the Exploration Elementary Charter School for Science and Technology and that a renewal charter be issued, and that its provisional charter be extended for a term up through and including June 30, 2024.

Your committee recommends that the Board of Regents finds that Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School (1) meets the requirements set out in Article 56 of the Education Law, and all other applicable laws, rules and regulations; (2) the applicant can demonstrate the ability to operate the school in an educationally and fiscally sound manner; (3) granting the application is likely to improve student learning and achievement and materially further the purposes set out in subdivision two of Section twenty-eight hundred fifty of this article; and (4) granting the application would have a significant educational benefit to the students expected to attend the charter school, and the Board of Regents therefore approves the renewal application of Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School and that a renewal charter be issued, and that its provisional charter be extended for a term up through and including June 30, 2027.

The motion passed.  There were no oppositions or abstentions.

Revision Recommendations for a Charter School Authorized by the Board of Regents [P-12 (A) 2]

Your committee recommends that the Board of Regents finds that: (1) the School in the Square Public Charter School meets the requirements set out in Article 56 of the Education Law, and all other applicable laws, rules and regulations; (2) the charter school can demonstrate the ability to operate in an educationally and fiscally sound manner; (3) granting the request to amend the charter is likely to improve student learning and achievement and materially further the purposes set out in subdivision two of Section twenty-eight hundred fifty of Article 56 of the Education Law; and (4) granting the request to amend the charter will have a significant educational benefit to the students expected to attend the charter school, and the Board of Regents therefore approves the charter revision for School in the Square Public Charter School and amends the provisional charter accordingly.

The motion passed.  There were no oppositions or abstentions.

MOTION FOR ACTION BY FULL BOARD

Your P-12 Education Committee recommends, and we move, that the Board of Regents act affirmatively upon each recommendation in the oral report of the Committee's deliberations at its meeting on February 15, 2022.

MATTERS NOT REQUIRING BOARD ACTION

Proposed Amendment of Section 115.1 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Requirements for Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) Regional Technology Plans [P-12 (D) 1]

Department staff presented proposed amendments of section 115.1 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education relating to requirements for Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) regional technology plans

Consent Agenda

The Board of Regents took action on the following consent agenda items at its February 2022 meeting.

• Proposed Amendment of Section 125.1 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Annual Visitation of Voluntarily Registered Nursery Schools and Kindergartens