Bill Text: NY A04457 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides a four percent across the board increase to funding allocated to school districts in New York state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in education [A04457 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04457-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4457
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. B. MILLER, FINCH -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  chapter  57  of the laws of 2012, relating to school
          district eligibility for an increase in apportionment  of  school  aid
          and implementation of new standards for conducting annual professional
          performance  reviews to determine teacher and principal effectiveness,
          in relation to providing a four percent across the board  increase  to
          funding allocated to school districts in New York state
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Section 1 of part A of chapter 57 of  the  laws  of  2012,
     2  relating to school district eligibility for an increase in apportionment
     3  of  school aid and implementation of new standards for conducting annual
     4  professional performance reviews  to  determine  teacher  and  principal
     5  effectiveness, is amended to read as follows:
     6    Section 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, [no] all
     7  school  [district]  districts  shall be eligible for an apportionment of
     8  general support for public schools from the funds appropriated  for  the
     9  2012-13 school year in excess of the amount apportioned to such district
    10  for  the  same  time  period  during  the  base year [unless such school
    11  district has submitted documentation  that  has  been  approved  by  the
    12  commissioner  of education by January 17, 2013 demonstrating that it has
    13  fully implemented new standards and  procedures  for  conducting  annual
    14  professional  performance  reviews  of  classroom  teachers and building
    15  principals to determine teacher and  principal  effectiveness  including
    16  but  not limited to providing for (i) state assessments and other compa-
    17  rable measures which shall comprise twenty or twenty-five percent of the
    18  evaluation; (ii) locally selected measures of  the  student  achievement
    19  subcomponent which shall comprise twenty or fifteen percent of the eval-
    20  uation;  (iii)  subjective  measures  of  effectiveness  that  have been
    21  approved by the commissioner with the majority of such points  based  on

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06601-01-9
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     1  multiple observations by an administrator or principal with at least one
     2  unannounced  observation  which  shall comprise 60 percent of the evalu-
     3  ation; and (iv) a scoring rubric which ensures that it  is  possible  to
     4  receive  any one of four ratings limited to highly effective, effective,
     5  developing and ineffective; provided however that if any  such  payments
     6  in  excess  of the amount apportioned to such district for the same time
     7  period during the base year were made, and the school district  has  not
     8  submitted  documentation that it has fully implemented new standards and
     9  procedures as set forth above that has been approved by the commissioner
    10  of education by January 17, 2013, the  total  amount  of  such  payments
    11  shall be deducted by the commissioner from future payments to the school
    12  district;  provided  further  that,  for the 2012-13 school year if such
    13  deduction is greater than the sum of  the  amounts  available  for  such
    14  deductions,  the  remainder  of  the  deduction  shall  be withheld from
    15  payments scheduled to be made to the school district pursuant to section
    16  3609-a of the education  law  for  the  2013-14  school  year;  provided
    17  further  that  notwithstanding  any inconsistent provision of law to the
    18  contrary such documentation shall include a plan adopted by the  govern-
    19  ing  board  of  the  school  district for conducting annual professional
    20  performance reviews of classroom teachers and building  principals  that
    21  has  been  approved  by  the commissioner, and in order to be approvable
    22  such plan shall conform with  the  requirements  for  conducting  annual
    23  professional  performance  reviews  of  classroom  teachers and building
    24  principals, including but not limited to (i) state assessments and other
    25  comparable measures which shall comprise twenty or  twenty-five  percent
    26  of  the  evaluation;  (ii)  locally  selected  measures  of  the student
    27  achievement subcomponent which shall comprise twenty or fifteen  percent
    28  of  the evaluation; (iii) subjective measures of effectiveness that have
    29  been approved by the commissioner with the majority of such points based
    30  on multiple observations by an administrator or principal with at  least
    31  one unannounced observation which shall comprise 60 percent of the eval-
    32  uation;  and  (iv) a scoring rubric which ensures that it is possible to
    33  receive any one of four ratings limited to highly effective,  effective,
    34  developing and ineffective; consistent with and conforms to a chapter of
    35  the  laws  of 2012 amending the education law relating to annual profes-
    36  sional performance review of classroom teachers and building  principals
    37  and  the  teacher  evaluation appeal process in the city of New York, as
    38  proposed in legislative bill numbers S.6732  and  A.9554,  and  provided
    39  further  that  for  a school district in a city with a population of one
    40  million or more, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of  law,  no
    41  such  school  district shall be eligible for an apportionment of general
    42  support for public schools from the funds appropriated for  the  2012-13
    43  school  year  in  excess of the amount appropriated to such district for
    44  the same time period during the base year unless  such  school  district
    45  has  submitted  documentation that has been approved by the commissioner
    46  by January 17, 2013 demonstrating that it  has  adopted  an  expeditious
    47  appeals process pertaining to the annual professional performance review
    48  of  classroom  teachers  and building principals that is consistent with
    49  and conforms to a chapter of the laws of 2012 amending the education law
    50  relating to annual professional performance review of classroom teachers
    51  and building principals and the teacher evaluation appeal process in the
    52  city of New York, as proposed in legislative  bill  numbers  S.6732  and
    53  A.9554,  and if any such payments in excess of the amount apportioned to
    54  such district for the same time period during the base year  were  made,
    55  and  the  school  district has not submitted documentation that has been
    56  approved by the commissioner by January 17, 2013 that it has adopted  an
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     1  expeditious  appeals  process  pertaining  to  the  annual  professional
     2  performance review of classroom teachers and building principals that is
     3  consistent with and conforms to a chapter of the laws of  2012  amending
     4  the  education law relating to annual professional performance review of
     5  classroom teachers and building principals and  the  teacher  evaluation
     6  appeal  process in the city of New York, as proposed in legislative bill
     7  numbers S.6732 and A.9554, the total amount of such  payments  shall  be
     8  deducted  by  the  commissioner  from  future  payments  to  the  school
     9  district; and provided further that, for the 2012-13 school year if such
    10  deduction is greater than the sum of  the  amounts  available  for  such
    11  deductions,  the  remainder  of  the  deduction  shall  be withheld from
    12  payments scheduled to be made to the school district pursuant to section
    13  3609-a of the education law for the 2013-14 school year].
    14    § 2. Allocated aid provided pursuant to chapter 57 of the laws of 2012
    15  relating to school district eligibility for an increase in apportionment
    16  of school aid and implementation of new standards for conducting  annual
    17  professional  performance  reviews  to  determine  teacher and principal
    18  effectiveness, shall be distributed equally amongst all school districts
    19  without regard to any formula established for the distribution of school
    20  aid under the education law.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
    22  have  been  in  full  force  and effect on the same date and in the same
    23  manner as section 1 of part A of chapter 57 of the laws  of  2012,  took
    24  effect.