Bill Text: NY S02806 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the commissioner of education's ability to issue a superintendent certificate to persons seeking exceptionally qualified status in cities of one million or more inhabitants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-23 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S02806 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S02806-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2806 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 23, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ADAMS -- 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 the commissioner of education's ability to issue a certificate as superintendent of schools to persons who do not meet educational or professional requirements for the position of chancellor of the New York community school district system 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] A. EXCEPT FOR THE POSITION OF SUPERINTENDENT OR CHANCELLOR OF 5 SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN CITIES HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE 6 INHABITANTS, THE commissioner, at the request of a board of education or 7 board of cooperative educational services, may provide for the issuance 8 of a certificate as superintendent of schools to exceptionally qualified 9 persons who do not meet all of the graduate course or teaching require- 10 ments of subdivision one of this section, but whose exceptional training 11 and experience are the substantial equivalent of such requirements and 12 qualify such persons for the duties of a superintendent of schools. 13 B. FOR THE POSITION OF SUPERINTENDENT OR CHANCELLOR OF SCHOOL 14 DISTRICTS IN CITIES HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE INHABIT- 15 ANTS, THE COMMISSIONER, AT THE REQUEST OF A BOARD OF EDUCATION OR BOARD 16 OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, MAY PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A 17 CERTIFICATE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS TO AN APPLICANT SEEKING EXCEP- 18 TIONALLY QUALIFIED PERSON STATUS, AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH A OF THIS 19 SUBDIVISION, ONLY UPON CONCURRENT RESOLUTION BY THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY 20 OF THE WAIVER OF GRADUATE COURSE OR TEACHING REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH IN 21 SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION FOR SUCH APPLICANT. 22 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00908-01-3