Int. No. 2323

By Council Members Kallos and Gennaro

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to expand reports on school applications

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 21-978 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law 72 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows:

a. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

School. The term “school” means a school of the city school district of the city of New York that contains any combination of grades from and including 3K [, pre-kindergarten] through grade twelve, including early education centers with which the department contracts to provide 3K and pre-kindergarten programs.

Student. The term "student" means any pupil under the age of twenty-one as of September first of the school year being reported, who does not have a high school diploma and who is enrolled in a school as defined in this section, excluding any child who is less than three [four] years of age on or before December thirty-first of the school year being reported.

                       b. The department shall submit to the speaker of the council, and post conspicuously on the department’s website, in a format that permits automated processing, a report containing the following information [reports regarding application, offer, available seat and enrollment information]:

1. Not later than May 15, 2018, and annually thereafter on or before May 15, a report including, but not limited to (a) for each community school district, the total number of individuals who (1) applied for admission to grades 3-K, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten or six in a school located in such community school district for the following school year; and (2) received an offer of admission to grades 3-K, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten or six in a school located in such community school district for the following school year; and (b) for each school, the total number of individuals who (1) applied for admission to grades 3K, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, six or nine in such school, as applicable, for the following school year; and (2) received an offer of admission to grades 3K, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, six or nine in such school, as applicable, for the following school year;

2. Not later than March 15, 2019, and annually thereafter on or before March 15, a report including, but not limited to (a) for each community school district, the total number of students who enrolled in grades 3-K, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten or six in a school located in such community school district in the current school year; and (b) for each school, the total number of students who enrolled in grades 3-K, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, six or nine in such school, as applicable, in the current school year.

The data required to be reported pursuant to this subdivision b shall be disaggregated by (i) community school district of residence of individuals or students, as applicable; (ii) zip code of residence of individuals or students, as applicable; (iii) primary home language of individuals or students, as applicable [and]; (iv) grade level; and, (v) race/ethnicity.

c. Not later than May 15, 2018, and annually thereafter on or before May 15, 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, for each school, the total number of seats anticipated to be available in the following school year.

d. Not later than May 15, 2021, and updated daily, the department shall submit to the speaker of the council, and post conspicuously on the department’s website, in a format that permits automated processing, a report including but not limited to:

1. The following anonymized information:

(a) The ranked choice of schools for each student applying for admission for the upcoming school year and such student’s current class rank or other metric of relative academic standing, disaggregated by community school district; and

(b) The ranked choice of schools for each student admitted to a particular school.

2. The data required to be reported pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision shall be disaggregated by the maximum number of the following factors that maintain the most data points identifying groups of at least six individuals:

(a) Race/ethnicity;

(b) Gender;

(c) Primary home language;

(d) Housing status;

(e) Household income; and

(f) Grade level.

3. Any data points identifying groups of fewer than six individuals shall be redacted. A category that contains zero shall be reported as zero, unless such reporting would violate any applicable provision of federal, state or local law relating to the privacy of student information. In the event that more than one combination of factors can formulate the maximum number of data point groups as described in paragraph 2 of this subdivision, all such possible combinations of factors shall be reported.

e. No information that is otherwise required to be reported pursuant to this section shall be reported in a manner that would violate any applicable provision of federal, state or local law relating to the privacy of student information or that would interfere with law enforcement investigations or otherwise conflict with the interests of law enforcement. If a category contains between 1 and 5 students, or contains an amount that would allow the amount of another category that is five or less to be deduced, the number shall be replaced with a symbol.

§ 2.  This local law takes effect immediately.

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LS # 16528

3/31/21 11:15 AM