Bill Text: NY S07635 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Develops grow your own initiatives at school districts, boards of cooperative educational services and higher education institutions to attract underrepresented candidates into the teaching profession.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-13 - referred to education [S07635 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07635-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7635

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 3, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  LIU  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to developing  grow  your
          own initiatives at school districts, boards of cooperative educational
          services and higher education institutions

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  3039
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 3039. Grow your own initiative. 1. The commissioner, in consultation
     4  with  the department of labor, chancellor of the state university of New
     5  York and chancellor of the city university of New  York,  shall  develop
     6  guidelines  for  school  districts,  boards  of  cooperative educational
     7  services and institutions of higher education to  use  to  develop  grow
     8  your  own  initiatives  aimed  at attracting underrepresented candidates
     9  into the teaching profession. Such guidelines shall include but  not  be
    10  limited to:
    11    (a)  Efforts  for  local  recruitment  of underrepresented candidates,
    12  including those who are current teaching assistants, paraeducators,  and
    13  current students;
    14    (b) Initiatives aimed at creating an early recruitment pipeline begin-
    15  ning at the middle and high school level;
    16    (c)  Partnerships  between school districts, community-based organiza-
    17  tions, educator preparation  institutions  and  institutions  of  higher
    18  education  to encourage and support underrepresented candidates to enter
    19  and remain in the teaching profession; and
    20    (d) Funding sources available to school districts and institutions  of
    21  higher  education to attract and retain underrepresented candidates into
    22  the teaching profession.
    23    2. For purposes of this section "underrepresented candidate" means  an
    24  individual  that has participated in my brother's keeper, teacher oppor-
    25  tunity corps program, higher education  opportunity  program,  education
    26  opportunity program or other similar program.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    28  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14859-01-0