Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the state high school equivalency diploma, formerly known as the general education development (GED) program, to the Excelsior high school diploma.
Requires nonpublic schools provide and maintain on-site automatic external defibrillator (AED) equipment on school grounds and assure that AED equipment is available for off-site curricular events, extracurricular events or school-sponsored athletic events.
Requires funding for special education services and programs for preschool children with disabilities to cover joint classroom instruction for such children with disabilities and other children for the same number of hours each day.
Establishes a fiscal control board for the East Ramapo central school district; continues the powers and duties of the monitors appointed to the East Ramapo central school district; provides for accelerated payments to the East Ramapo central school district; relates to building aid ratios for certain school districts; repeals provisions relating to supplementary funding for dedicated programs for public school students in the East Ramapo central school district.
Raises the exclusion of certain indebtedness of school districts other than school districts in a city with one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more according to the latest federal census.
Relates to the calculation of selected operating aid per pupil for the Boquet Valley central school district; provides the date of reorganization, July 1, 2019, shall be used when calculating.