Bill Text: NY S01875 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1875 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Eliminates the waiver of qualification requirements for school superintendents in the school districts located in cities having a population of one million or more residents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01875 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01875-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1875
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to eliminating the waiver
          of qualification requirements for school superintendents in the school
          districts located in cities having a population of one million or more
          residents
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section 3003 of the education law, as
     2  amended by chapter 149 of the laws  of  1974,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3.  [The]  Except in school districts located in cities having a popu-
     5  lation of one million  or  more  residents,  the  commissioner,  at  the
     6  request  of  a  board  of  education or board of cooperative educational
     7  services, may provide for the issuance of a certificate  as  superinten-
     8  dent  of  schools to exceptionally qualified persons who do not meet all
     9  of the graduate course or teaching requirements of  subdivision  one  of
    10  this  section,  but  whose  exceptional  training and experience are the
    11  substantial equivalent of such requirements and qualify such persons for
    12  the duties of a superintendent of schools.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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