Bill Text: NY A05532 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that the probationary period of a school principal, administrator, supervisor or any other member of a supervising staff who previously was granted tenure, shall be 2 years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A05532 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05532-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5532 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, LIFTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to securing for previous- ly tenured administrators and supervisors the same probationary period as provided for teachers and all other members of the teaching staffs of school districts in the state The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 3012 of the 2 education law, as amended by section 4 of subpart D of part EE of chap- 3 ter 56 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows: 4 (b) i. Principals, administrators, supervisors and all other members 5 of the supervising staff of school districts, including common school 6 districts and/or school districts employing fewer than eight teachers, 7 other than city school districts, who are appointed prior to July first, 8 two thousand fifteen, shall be appointed by the board of education, or 9 the trustees of a common school district, upon the recommendation of the 10 superintendent of schools for a probationary period of three years; 11 provided, however, that in the case of a principal, administrator, 12 supervisor or any other member of a supervising staff who has been 13 appointed on tenure in another school district within the state, the 14 school district where currently employed, or by a board of cooperative 15 educational services, and who is not dismissed from such district or 16 board as a result of charges brought pursuant to subdivision one of 17 section three thousand twenty-a of this article, the probationary period 18 shall not exceed two years. The service of a person appointed to any of 19 such positions may be discontinued at any time during the probationary 20 period on the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, by a 21 majority vote of the board of education or the trustees of a common 22 school district. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03250-01-7A. 5532 2 1 ii. Principals, administrators, supervisors and all other members of 2 the supervising staff of school districts, including common school 3 districts and/or school districts employing fewer than eight teachers, 4 other than city school districts, who are appointed on or after July 5 first, two thousand fifteen, shall be appointed by the board of educa- 6 tion, or the trustees of a common school district, upon the recommenda- 7 tion of the superintendent of schools for a probationary period of four 8 years; provided, however, that in the case of a principal, administra- 9 tor, supervisor or any other member of a supervising staff who has been 10 appointed on tenure in another school district within the state, the 11 school district where currently employed, or by a board of cooperative 12 educational services, and who is not dismissed from such district or 13 board as a result of charges brought pursuant to subdivision one of 14 section three thousand twenty-a of this article, the probationary period 15 shall not exceed two years. The service of a person appointed to any of 16 such positions may be discontinued at any time during the probationary 17 period on the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, by a 18 majority vote of the board of education or the trustees of a common 19 school district. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 21 the date on which it shall have become a law.