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
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                                          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.
                                                                   LBD03250-01-7

        A. 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.
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