Bill Text: NY A10452 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the process of annual professional performance reviews must ensure that no teacher or principal who receives a developing rating in all three subcomponents can receive an overall rating of ineffective; provides for the confidentiality of personnel records of classroom teachers and building principals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-29 - referred to education [A10452 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A10452-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10452
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 29, 2012
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       Introduced  by M. of A. BRENNAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the process of  annual
         professional  performance reviews and the confidentiality of personnel
         records of classroom teachers and building principals
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph j of subdivision 2 of section
    2  3012-c of the education law, as added by chapter 21 of the laws of 2012,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    (2) Such process must ensure that it is  possible  for  a  teacher  or
    5  principal to obtain each point in the applicable scoring ranges, includ-
    6  ing  zero, for the state assessment or other comparable measures subcom-
    7  ponent, the locally selected measures of student  achievement  subcompo-
    8  nent  and  the  overall  rating categories. The process must also ensure
    9  that it is possible for a teacher or principal to obtain each  point  in
   10  the  scoring  ranges  prescribed by the district or board of cooperative
   11  educational services for the other measures  of  teacher  and  principal
   12  effectiveness  subcomponent.    SUCH  PROCESS  MUST  ALSO ENSURE THAT NO
   13  TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL WHO RECEIVES  A  DEVELOPING  RATING  IN  ALL  THREE
   14  SUBCOMPONENTS CAN RECEIVE AN OVERALL RATING OF INEFFECTIVE.
   15    S  2.  Section  3012-c of the education law is amended by adding a new
   16  subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   17    10. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISIONS OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE PERSON-
   18  NEL RECORDS OF A CLASSROOM TEACHER OR BUILDING PRINCIPAL, INCLUDING  BUT
   19  NOT  LIMITED  TO  THE  ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS CONDUCTED
   20  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, COMPOSITE EFFECTIVENESS SCORES AND  ALL  INDI-
   21  VIDUAL  SUBCOMPONENTS,  AND  THE QUALITY RATING CATEGORY SHALL BE DEEMED
   22  CONFIDENTIAL AND SHALL NOT BE DISCLOSED, RELEASED OR  SHOWN  TO  ANYONE,
   23  EXCEPT:
   24    A. WITH THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE SUBJECT TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL;
   25    B.  TO  THE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION  OR BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL
   26  SERVICES THAT EMPLOYS THE  TEACHER  OR  PRINCIPAL  AND  THE  APPROPRIATE
   27  ADMINISTRATORS DESIGNATED BY SUCH BOARD;
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD16018-01-2
       A. 10452                            2
    1    C.  TO  THE CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER OF SUCH BOARD OF EDUCATION OR BOARD OF
    2  COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES; OR
    3    D. PURSUANT TO A SUBPOENA OR COURT ORDER.
    4    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.