Bill Text: NY A10103 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to the number and duties of assistant principals to be assigned to the schools in the city school district of the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-24 - print number 10103a [A10103 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10103-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                        10103--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on  Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the number and duties
          of assistant principals to be assigned to  the  schools  in  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.  Legislative intent. To ensure the safety and  security  of
     2  school  communities, the appropriate supervision of staff and personnel,
     3  and the proper management of school buildings,  all  schools  must  have
     4  appropriate staffing, including administrators. To ensure the safety and
     5  security  of  all students and school staff and personnel, the following
     6  minimum staffing standards must be met.
     7    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 2590-i of the education law  is  amended
     8  by adding three new paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) to read as follows:
     9    (d)  Each school shall have appointed a minimum of one assistant prin-
    10  cipal. All assistant principals shall be certified as such.
    11    (e) Assistant principals shall be responsible for the  safe  operation
    12  of the school on occasions when the principal is not present.
    13    (f)  Assistant  principals  may  be  required by the chancellor or the
    14  superintendent to provide or participate in training or other  forms  of
    15  staff development or to address identified areas of educational need and
    16  promote student achievement and school performance.
    17    §  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    18  the date on which it shall have become a law; provided however that  the
    19  amendments to section 2590-i of the education law made by section two of
    20  this  act  shall survive the expiration and reversion of such section as
    21  provided in section 17 of chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, as amended.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15386-02-2
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