Bill Text: NY A06652 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6652 (Prior Session Legislation)

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) 2016-01-06 - referred to education [A06652 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06652-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6652
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 30, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred 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.
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