Bill Text: NY A11724 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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) 2010-11-24 - referred to education [A11724 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A11724-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         11724
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   November 24, 2010
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       Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of 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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