Bill Text: NY S01950 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires school districts to submit documentation demonstrating that the district has implemented standards and procedures for conducting annual performance reviews of teachers and principals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-11 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01950 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01950-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1950
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. LATIMER -- 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  requiring  school
          districts  to submit documentation demonstrating that the district has
          implemented standards and procedures for conducting annual performance
          reviews of teachers and principals
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 11 of section 3012-d of the education law, as
     2  added by section 2 of subpart E of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws  of
     3  2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    11.  [Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of law, no] Every
     5  school district shall [be  eligible  for  an  apportionment  of  general
     6  support   for  public  schools  from  the  funds  appropriated  for  the
     7  2015--2016 school year and any year thereafter in excess of  the  amount
     8  apportioned  to  such school district in the respective base year unless
     9  such school district has submitted documentation that has  been]  submit
    10  documentation  to be approved by the commissioner by November fifteenth,
    11  two thousand [fifteen] eighteen, or by September first  of  each  subse-
    12  quent  year,  demonstrating  that it has fully implemented the standards
    13  and procedures for conducting annual teacher and  principal  evaluations
    14  of  teachers  and principals in accordance with the requirements of this
    15  section and  the  regulations  issued  by  the  commissioner.  [Provided
    16  further  that  any apportionment withheld pursuant to this section shall
    17  not occur prior to April first of the current year and  shall  not  have
    18  any effect on the base year calculation for use in the subsequent school
    19  year. For purposes of this section, "base year" shall mean the base year
    20  as  defined  in  paragraph  b  of  subdivision one of section thirty-six
    21  hundred two of this chapter, and "current year" shall mean  the  current
    22  year  as defined in paragraph a of subdivision one of section thirty-six
    23  hundred two of this chapter.]
    24    § 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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