Bill Text: NY A06300 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows a principal employed by a certain district to make a written request to the board of education for an extended leave of absence to serve as a principal at a charter school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-01 - signed chap.275 [A06300 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06300-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6300--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 11, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. NOLAN, LANCMAN, BENEDETTO, P. RIVERA, SCARBOR-
         OUGH, CAMARA, STEVENSON, GALEF, SPANO, TITUS -- Multi-Sponsored by  --
         M.  of A. ABBATE, BING, COOK, TITONE, WRIGHT -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Education -- reported and referred to the  Commit-
         tee  on  Rules  --  Rules  Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing  a  principal
         employed  by  a  district  to  make  a written request to the board of
         education for an extended leave of  absence  to  teach  at  a  charter
         school
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision  3  of  section  2854  of  the
    2  education  law, as amended by section 6 of part D-2 of chapter 57 of the
    3  laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (d) A teacher OR A PRINCIPAL employed by a school district may make  a
    5  written  request  to  the  board  of  education for an extended leave of
    6  absence, IN THE CASE OF A TEACHER, to teach at a charter school  OR,  IN
    7  THE  CASE  OF  A  PRINCIPAL,  TO SERVE AS PRINCIPAL OF A CHARTER SCHOOL.
    8  Approval for such a leave of absence for a period of three years or less
    9  shall not be unreasonably withheld. If such approval  is  granted  to  a
   10  teacher  by  the school district, the teacher may return to teach in the
   11  school district during such period of leave  without  the  loss  of  any
   12  right  of  certification,  retirement,  seniority,  salary status or any
   13  other benefit provided by law or by collective bargaining agreement.  IF
   14  SUCH APPROVAL IS GRANTED TO A PRINCIPAL  BY  THE  SCHOOL  DISTRICT,  THE
   15  PRINCIPAL  MAY  RETURN  TO  SERVE  AS A PRINCIPAL IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT
   16  DURING SUCH PERIOD OF LEAVE WITHOUT THE LOSS OF  ANY  RIGHT  OF  CERTIF-
   17  ICATION,  RETIREMENT,  SENIORITY,  SALARY  STATUS  OR  ANY OTHER BENEFIT
   18  PROVIDED BY LAW OR BY COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT. If an appropriate
   19  position is unavailable, the teacher's  OR  PRINCIPAL'S  name  shall  be
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10124-02-1
       A. 6300--A                          2
    1  placed  on  a preferred eligible list of candidates for appointment to a
    2  vacancy that may thereafter occur in an office or  position  similar  to
    3  the  one  such teacher OR PRINCIPAL filled in such school district imme-
    4  diately prior to the leave of service.
    5    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.