Bill Text: NY A01168 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education to establish a mentor program whereby a school district may hire retired teachers to mentor inexperienced teachers in the classroom and in preparation for such classes; provides such mentors would not lose retirement benefits, but cannot increase such benefits by service as a mentor teacher.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-09-27 - enacting clause stricken [A01168 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01168-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1168
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMANOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          CROUCH, LOPEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a  mentor
          program to assist new teachers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  309-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 309-b. Teacher's mentor program. 1. The commissioner shall establish
     4  a  mentor program whereby a school district may employ a retired teacher
     5  to work in the classroom and  in  preparation  with  a  new  teacher  to
     6  provide experience and expedite development of such new teacher.
     7    2.  The  mentor  teacher may be paid an amount to be negotiated by the
     8  local board and not determined by or limited to restriction of  previous
     9  salary  or step, which payment shall not diminish the payment of retire-
    10  ment  benefits  to  such  mentor  teacher,  notwithstanding  any   other
    11  provision of law to the contrary.
    12    3.  Time  spent  as a mentor teacher may not be included as creditable
    13  service toward retirement or to increase any retirement benefit.
    14    4. No person may hold tenure as a mentor teacher or become entitled to
    15  tenure as a mentor teacher.
    16    5. Any school board may follow the program established by the  commis-
    17  sioner  pursuant  to  subdivision  one of this section, but shall not be
    18  compelled to have such a program.
    19    6. The commissioner shall promulgate necessary rules  and  regulations
    20  to carry out the program, as established pursuant to this section, imme-
    21  diately upon this section becoming a law.
    22    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
    23  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03483-01-7