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Discussion of Local Law 18 of 2023 and improving transition for students with disabilities
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Council Member Dinowitz discusses Local Law 18 of 2023 and explores potential collaboration between CUNY and the NYC Department of Education to improve the transition for students with disabilities.
- Local Law 18 of 2023 requires the NYC Department of Education to provide parents and students the opportunity to share IEP and assessment data with colleges
- Dinowitz suggests that CUNY Accommodate could potentially interface directly with the Department of Education's system
- CUNY officials commit to following up on the possibility of interfacing their system with the Department of Education
- The discussion highlights the importance of streamlining the transition process for students with disabilities from high school to college
Eric Dinowitz
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It seems to me that if you have an entire interface that is designed and dedicated to students with disabilities, their accommodations, their needs, that the Department of Education for New York City can interface directly with that.
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This is this is now law that they have to electronically transmit.
0:47:11
Are you able to collaborate with the New York City Public School system to enhance and make better local law 18 of 2023 by interfacing directly with the Department of Education who legally now have the authority with student consent to transmit IEP and assessment data?
Alicia Alvero
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We will absolutely follow-up with that and I can get you a more robust answer on that because I do know that when students apply to CUNY, we have already automated and streamlined information process, and so I will ensure that that information is there.
0:47:43
I did get the answer about the contract for accommodations.
Eric Dinowitz
0:47:47
Now the going back and forth in time feels like a Christopher Nolan movie or accommodate.
Samantha Ventura
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But I
Alicia Alvero
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won't go back to the before.
0:47:53
Okay.
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But it's simplicity in case you're curious.
Hector Batista
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Yeah.
Alicia Alvero
0:47:59
And do you want me to go back to some of the other things that I have?
Eric Dinowitz
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Or Yeah.
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We'll go back in a second, but I I do appreciate I have your your commitment to work together to ensure the Department of Education and CUNY are interfacing to fully, know, realize local law 18 of 23, which really is designed to do what it sounds like you're doing, make life as easy as possible so our students with disabilities have every opportunity to succeed and get the accommodations they deserve, the accommodations to which they are entitled so they can succeed and be them their best selves in college.
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Yes.
0:48:33
I would like those numbers and I'll I'm gonna turn it over to council member Brewer for her questions after these For
Alicia Alvero
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Reconnect, the 8,800,000 Yeah.
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Will serve about 22,000 students at a cost of 3.9 per student.
0:48:48
Three thousand nine hundred per student.
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Thank
Eric Dinowitz
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you.
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I'm gonna turn it over to council member Brewer for some questions.
Gale A. Brewer
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Thank you very much.