Bill Text: NY S00843 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that in a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants, a plan developed in collaboration with the collective bargaining units representing teachers and the principals beginning in September 2022 and signed off on by the chancellor and the presidents of each bargaining unit, to reduce class sizes beginning September 2023 and to be achieved by September 2028 for all classes; requires a report on or before November 15, 2023 and on or before November 15th of each year thereafter; further requires the city school district to submit a financial impact statement on November 15, 2025.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-03-03 - SIGNED CHAP.86 [S00843 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00843-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 843 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 6, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LIU -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to contracts for excel- lence; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the educa- tion law relating to the contract for excellence in a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabit- ants, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9460 and A. 10498, in relation to the effectiveness thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Clause (A) of subparagraph (ii), clause (G) of subparagraph 2 (iii) and subparagraph (v) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 3 211-d of the education law, clause (A) of subparagraph (ii) and clause 4 (G) of subparagraph (iii) as amended and subparagraph (v) as added by a 5 chapter of the laws of 2022, amending the education law relating to the 6 contract for excellence in a city school district in a city having a 7 population of one million or more inhabitants, as proposed in legisla- 8 tive bills numbers S. 9460 and A. 10498, are amended to read as follows: 9 (A) In a city school district in a city having a population of one 10 million or more inhabitants such contract shall also include a plan, 11 which shall be developed in collaboration with the collective bargaining 12 units representing teachers and the principals beginning in September 13 two thousand twenty-two and signed off on by the chancellor and the 14 presidents of each bargaining unit, to reduce actual class sizes, begin- 15 ning September [two thousand twenty-two] two thousand twenty-three and 16 to be achieved by September [two thousand twenty-seven] two thousand 17 twenty-eight for all classes, with the exception of physical education 18 and performing groups, as follows: (1) kindergarten-third grade to have 19 no more than twenty students per class; (2) fourth-eighth grade to have 20 no more than twenty-three students per class; and (3) high school to 21 have no more than twenty-five students per class. Physical education EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04141-01-3S. 843 2 1 and performing groups shall have no more than forty students per class 2 at all levels. Each year of the plan, an additional twenty percent of 3 the classrooms in the city school district, excluding special education 4 classes, shall be in compliance with the class size targets such that 5 the city school district is in full compliance by [two thousand twenty-6seven] two thousand twenty-eight and all classes should maintain the 7 target class size. The class size reduction plan shall prioritize 8 schools serving populations with higher poverty levels. 9 (G) the schools that have made insufficient progress toward achieving 10 the class size reduction targets set forth in the approved class size 11 reduction plan pursuant to subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph and a 12 detailed description of the actions that will be taken to reduce class 13 sizes in such schools. 14 The report shall be submitted to the commissioner on or before Novem- 15 ber fifteenth two thousand twenty-three and on or before November 16 fifteenth of each year thereafter and made available to the public by 17 such date on the city school district's website. If the department 18 determines that the November fifteenth report does not demonstrate 19 sufficient decreases in class size, the department shall issue a letter 20 making that determination public on its website and the city school 21 district shall immediately submit a plan for corrective action, which 22 shall be developed in collaboration with the collective bargaining units 23 representing the teachers and the principals and signed off on by the 24 chancellor and the president of each collective bargaining unit. The 25 city school district's corrective action plan shall also be made avail- 26 able to the public on the city school district's website upon submission 27 to the department. The final corrective action plan shall be made avail- 28 able to the public upon approval by the department. The report shall 29 also be certified by the state or city comptroller that the city school 30 district's capital and education funding plans will provide sufficient 31 space and staffing for the reduction in class size set forth in this 32 paragraph and, if not, what measures and/or funding should be added to 33 the plan to achieve such targets. 34 (v) In addition to the annual reports, the city school district shall 35 submit a financial impact statement on November fifteenth, [two thousand36twenty-four] two thousand twenty-five. The financial impact statement 37 may recommend a pause of the class size reduction plan, but in no event 38 may it result in a roll back or increase in class sizes. 39 § 2. Section 6 of a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the education 40 law relating to the contract for excellence in a city school district in 41 a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants, as 42 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9460 and A. 10498, is amended 43 to read as follows: 44 § 6. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 45 ments to paragraph e of subdivision 1 of section 211-d of the education 46 law made by section one of this act shall take effect [on the same date47and in the same manner as section 1 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws48of 2022, takes effect] July 1, 2023; and provided, further that the 49 amendments to paragraph d of subdivision 4 of section 211-d of the 50 education law made by section four of this act shall take effect April 51 1, 2023. 52 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 53 ments to clause (A) of subparagraph (ii), clause (G) of subparagraph 54 (iii) and subparagraph (v) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 55 211-d of the education law made by section one of this act shall take 56 effect on the same date and in the same manner as a chapter of the lawsS. 843 3 1 of 2022 amending the education law relating to the contract for excel- 2 lence in a city school district in a city having a population of one 3 million or more inhabitants, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4 9460 and A. 10498, takes effect.
