NY To Require CPR Training In High School

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Dave Lucas

Published October 22, 2014 at 10:16 AM EDT

New York state is expected to soon require high schools to train students in CPR. Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law a measure directing the state's commissioner of education to come up with a CPR training curriculum.

Groups like the American Heart Association have pushed to make the training mandatory for all high school students, citing cases in which lives were saved by someone performing CPR. The training curriculum would include instructions on the use of automatic defibrillators. The training session can be conducted in 30 minutes. Sixteen states already require CPR training in schools.

The state's Board of Regents could reject the training curriculum, but it would have to give its reasons to the governor and Legislature.

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Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.

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