Bill Text: NY A03922 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the mayoral control of the city school district of the city of New York; relates to the appointment of members of the New York city school board of education; provides four of the members of such board shall be appointed by the city council and shall include parent representatives, a member from a college or university and a member of a community district education council; provides that the board shall appoint the chancellor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A03922 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03922-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3922
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 31, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. WEPRIN, RIVERA, PERRY, MOSLEY -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  ARROYO, COOK -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
          tee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to mayoral control of the
          city school district of the city of New York
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section  2590-b  of  the
     2  education law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a)  The board of education of the city school district of the city of
     5  New York is hereby continued. Such board of education shall  consist  of
     6  thirteen  appointed  members: one member to be appointed by each borough
     7  president of the city of New York; four by the city council, one of whom
     8  shall be a representative of a college or university, one of whom  shall
     9  be a member of parent organizations and one of whom shall be a member of
    10  a  community  district education council; and [eight] four members to be
    11  appointed by the mayor of the city of New  York.  The  chancellor  shall
    12  serve  as  an  ex-officio  non-voting member of the city board. The city
    13  board shall elect its own chairperson from among its voting members. All
    14  thirteen appointed members shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing
    15  authority and shall not be employed in any capacity by the city  of  New
    16  York,  or  a subdivision thereof, or the city board. No appointed member
    17  of the city board shall also be a member, officer, or  employee  of  any
    18  public corporation, authority, or commission where the mayor of the city
    19  of New York has a majority of the appointments. Each borough president's
    20  appointee shall be a resident of the borough for which the borough pres-
    21  ident  appointing  him  or  her was elected and shall be the parent of a
    22  child attending a public school within the city school district  of  the
    23  city  of  New  York.   Each mayoral appointee shall be a resident of the
    24  city and [two] one shall be [parents] a parent of a  child  attending  a
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02875-01-9

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     1  public  school  within  the city district.   All parent members shall be
     2  eligible to continue to serve on the city board for two years  following
     3  the conclusion of their child's attendance at a public school within the
     4  city  district. Any vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the appro-
     5  priate appointing authority within ninety days of such vacancy. Notwith-
     6  standing any provision of local law, the members of the board shall  not
     7  have  staff,  offices,  or  vehicles assigned to them or receive compen-
     8  sation for their services, but shall be reimbursed for  the  actual  and
     9  necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties.
    10    §  2. The opening paragraph of section 2590-h of the education law, as
    11  amended by chapter 345 of the laws  of  2009,  is  amended  to  read  as
    12  follows:
    13    The  office  of  chancellor  of the city district is hereby continued.
    14  Such chancellor shall serve at the pleasure of and be  employed  by  the
    15  [mayor]  city  board  of the city of New York by contract. The length of
    16  such contract shall not exceed by more than two years the term of office
    17  of the [mayor] city board  authorizing  such  contract.  The  chancellor
    18  shall  receive a salary to be fixed by the [mayor] city board within the
    19  budgetary allocation therefor. He or she shall exercise all his  or  her
    20  powers and duties in a manner not inconsistent with the city-wide educa-
    21  tional policies of the city board. The chancellor shall have the follow-
    22  ing  powers and duties as the superintendent of schools and chief execu-
    23  tive officer for the city district, which the chancellor shall  exercise
    24  to  promote  an  equal  educational  opportunity for all students in the
    25  schools of the city district, promote  fiscal  and  educational  equity,
    26  increase  student achievement and school performance and encourage local
    27  school-based innovation, including the power and duty to:
    28    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    29  have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
    30  1  of  section 2590-b and the opening paragraph of section 2590-h of the
    31  education law made by sections one and two of this act shall not  affect
    32  the  expiration  of such provisions and shall be deemed to expire there-
    33  with.
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