Bill Text: NY S04466 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the mayoral control of the city school district of the city of New York; relates to the appointment of members of the New York city school board of education; provides four of the members of such board shall be appointed by the city council and shall include parent representatives, a member from a college or university and a member of a community district education council; provides that the board shall appoint the chancellor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION [S04466 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S04466-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4466 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 5, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on New York City Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to mayoral control of the city school district of the city of New York The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraphs 1 and 8 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of 2 section 2590-b of the education law, as amended by section 43-b of part 3 YYY of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 4 (1) (A) Such board of education shall consist of thirteen appointed 5 members: one member to be appointed by each borough president of the 6 city of New York; four by the city council, one of whom shall be a 7 representative of a college or university, one of whom shall be a member 8 of parent organizations and one of whom shall be a member of a community 9 district education council; and [eight] four members to be appointed by 10 the mayor of the city of New York. 11 (B) Commencing on July first, two thousand twenty, the board of educa- 12 tion shall consist of fifteen members: one member to be appointed by 13 each borough president of the city of New York, one member to be elected 14 by community district education council presidents, four by the city 15 council, one of whom shall be a representative of a college or universi- 16 ty, and one of whom shall be a member of parent organizations; and 17 [nine] five members to be appointed by the mayor of the city of New 18 York. On or before December thirty-first, two thousand nineteen, the 19 chancellor shall promulgate regulations establishing a process for 20 community district education council presidents to elect a member of the 21 board, and processes for removal of such member and for the filling of 22 such position in the event of a vacancy. The first member elected by 23 community district education council presidents pursuant to such regu- 24 lations shall take office on July first, two thousand twenty and shall EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08402-01-1S. 4466 2 1 serve a term that ends on June thirtieth, two thousand twenty-two. 2 Thereafter, the member elected by community district education council 3 presidents shall serve for a two year term commencing on July first. 4 (8) Each mayoral appointee shall be a resident of the city and [two] 5 one shall be [parents] a parent of a child attending a public school 6 within the city district. 7 § 2. The opening paragraph of section 2590-h of the education law, as 8 amended by section 43-d of part YYY of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, 9 is amended to read as follows: 10 The office of chancellor of the city district is hereby continued. 11 Such chancellor shall serve at the pleasure of and be employed by the 12 [mayor] city board of the city of New York by contract. The chancellor 13 shall meet the requirements of subdivision one of section three thousand 14 three of this chapter, provided that a person who has been issued a 15 certificate as superintendent of schools pursuant to subdivision three 16 of such section may serve as chancellor on the basis of such certificate 17 for no longer than six months. The length of such contract shall not 18 exceed by more than two years the term of office of the [mayor] city 19 board authorizing such contract. The chancellor shall receive a salary 20 to be fixed by the [mayor] city board within the budgetary allocation 21 therefor. He or she shall exercise all his or her powers and duties in a 22 manner not inconsistent with the city-wide educational policies of the 23 city board. The chancellor shall have the following powers and duties as 24 the superintendent of schools and chief executive officer for the city 25 district, which the chancellor shall exercise to promote an equal educa- 26 tional opportunity for all students in the schools of the city district, 27 promote fiscal and educational equity, increase student achievement and 28 school performance and encourage local school-based innovation, includ- 29 ing the power and duty to: 30 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 31 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision 32 1 of section 2590-b and the opening paragraph of section 2590-h of the 33 education law made by sections one and two of this act shall not affect 34 the expiration of such provisions and shall be deemed to expire there- 35 with.
