Bill Text: NY A08807 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to working as a teaching assistant accruing time towards certification and ensuring equal treatment of certificate holders by schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A08807 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08807-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8807

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 25, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to working as a teaching
          assistant accruing  time  towards  certification  and  ensuring  equal
          treatment  of  certificate  holders  by schools regarding professional
          development

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  3006 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. Time accrual for certification. If teaching experience is  required
     4  by  the  commissioner  to receive or maintain certification, the commis-
     5  sioner shall allow for experience as a teaching assistant to accrue time
     6  towards this requirement at the rate of no less than sixty  percent  the
     7  rate of teaching experience or its equivalent.
     8    §  2. Section 3006-a of the education law is amended by adding two new
     9  subdivisions 4 and 5 to read as follows:
    10    4. No school district shall deny any employee certificate holder  from
    11  professional  development  or  continuing  teacher  or  leader education
    12  provided by the school district during the school day based on the indi-
    13  vidual's area of employment. All employee certificate holders  shall  be
    14  provided  with  equal opportunity to receive professional development or
    15  continuing teacher and leader education provided by the school  district
    16  during the school day.
    17    5.  Each school district shall maintain records of professional devel-
    18  opment and continuing teacher or leader education hours for all employee
    19  certificate holders.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    21  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.
                                                                   LBD02634-01-9