Bill Text: NY S02140 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2140

Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education to issue guidance to school districts for developing programs to attract underrepresented candidates into the teaching profession and to identify funding available to school districts for such purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-06-05 - SUBSTITUTED BY A68A [S02140 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02140-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2140--B
            Cal. No. 287

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 18, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  LIU,  HOYLMAN-SIGAL,  JACKSON, MAY, MAYER -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee  on  Education -- reported favorably from said committee and
          committed to the Committee on Rules -- ordered  to  a  third  reading,
          amended  and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place in the order of
          third reading -- passed by  Senate  and  delivered  to  the  Assembly,
          recalled,  vote  reconsidered,  restored to third reading, amended and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to developing  grow  your
          own  initiatives  at school districts and boards of cooperative educa-
          tional services

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "teach-
     2  ers and educators aiding the communities they call home (TEACH) act".
     3    § 2. Section 305 of the education law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     4  subdivision 60 to read as follows:
     5    60.  The  commissioner,  in  consultation  with institutions of higher
     6  education, shall issue guidance for school districts and boards of coop-
     7  erative educational services to use to develop grow your own initiatives
     8  aimed  at  attracting  underrepresented  candidates  into  the  teaching
     9  profession. Such guidance shall include but not be limited to:
    10    (a)  ways  to recruit underrepresented candidates, including those who
    11  are current teaching assistants and current students in teacher prepara-
    12  tion programs;
    13    (b) initiatives aimed at creating an early recruitment pipeline begin-
    14  ning in secondary school;
    15    (c) how to establish partnerships between school  districts,  communi-
    16  ty-based  organizations, and institutions of higher education to encour-
    17  age and support underrepresented candidates to enter and remain  in  the
    18  teaching profession; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01772-07-3

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     1    (d)  ways  to  identify  existing  funding sources available to school
     2  districts to attract and retain  underrepresented  candidates  into  the
     3  teaching profession.
     4    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     5  it shall have become a law.