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Senate Bill S7991
Signed By Governor2009-2010 Legislative Session
Requires annual professional performance reviews of classroom teachers and building principals
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(D, WF) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status Via A11171 - Signed by Governor
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- Passed Assembly
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Floor Vote: May 28, 2010
aye (59)- Adams
- Addabbo Jr.
- Alesi
- Aubertine
- Bonacic
- Breslin
- DeFrancisco
- Diaz
- Dilan
- Duane
- Espada
- Farley
- Flanagan
- Foley
- Fuschillo
- Golden
- Griffo
- Hannon
- Hassell-Thompson
- Huntley
- Johnson
- Johnson
- Klein
- Krueger
- Kruger
- LaValle
- Lanza
- Larkin
- Leibell
- Libous
- Little
- Marcellino
- Maziarz
- McDonald
- Montgomery
- Nozzolio
- Onorato
- Oppenheimer
- Padavan
- Parker
- Peralta
- Perkins
- Ranzenhofer
- Robach
- Saland
- Sampson
- Savino
- Schneiderman
- Serrano
- Skelos
- Smith
- Squadron
- Stachowski
- Stavisky
- Stewart-Cousins
- Thompson
- Valesky
- Volker
- Young
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May 28, 2010 - Rules Committee Vote
S799116Aye1Nay5Aye with Reservations0Absent1Excused0Abstained -
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2009-S7991 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A11171
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Add §§3012-c & 211-e, amd §§3020 & 3020-a, Ed L
2009-S7991 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Requires annual professional performance reviews of classroom teachers and building principals; establishes procedures for such reviews and hearing processes for appeals; authorizes school districts to contract with educational partnership organizations to turn around certain low-performing schools.
2009-S7991 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S7991 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to the evaluation of teachers and principals; and to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing school districts to contract with educational partnership organizations to turn around certain low-performing schools PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF THE BILL: The purpose of this bill is to the purpose of this bill is to improve teaching and learning by implementing a statewide comprehensive evaluation system for school districts and BOCES which is designed to measure teacher and principal effectiveness based on performance, including measures of student achievement. In addition, the purpose of this bill is add to the turn around strategies available to school districts to intervene in schools identified as persistently lowest-achieving schools or schools under registration review (SUER), by authorizing contracts with an educational partnership organization to help manage the school. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section one of the bill would add a new §3012-c of the Education law, establishing the requirements for new, more rigorous annual professional performance reviews (APPRs) of classroom teachers and building Principals.
The new §3012-c would provide for a phase-in of the new comprehensive evaluation system, beginning for certain teachers and principals in grades 4-8 in the 2011-2012 school year. The evaluations would generate a single composite effectiveness score based on multiple measures of effectiveness and would have to be made a significant factor in employment decisions, including but not limited to, promotion, retention, tenure determination, termination, and supplemental compensation, as well as teacher and principal professional development (including coaching,induction support and differentiated professional development). The phase-in would provide for an orderly process under which the new evaluation process will first apply to teachers in common branch subjects or English language arts (ELA) or mathematics, for whom the grades 3-8 state assessments are available for use in measuring student growth and their principals, and then be expanded out to all teachers and principals. As the requirements are phased in, evaluations of teachers and principals will be required to base 40a of the composite effectiveness score on student achievement measures. In addition, the percentage of the 401 that must be based on student growth will increase when the state implements a value-added growth model. An advisory committee would be established so that input i received from practitioners in the field as standards are developed for teachers of subjects for which there are no state assessments in multiple years (and their principals). Specifically, the phase-in would be as follows: * In 2011-2012, only teachers in grades 4-B common branch subjects and ELA and math and the principals of their schools will be subject to the new evaluation standards. These are the grades and subjects in which state assessments have been in place. Forty percent of their evaluation must be based on student achievement measures, including 20% based on student growth on the state assessments or other measures of student growth prescribed by the state, and 20% based on other rigorous and comparable measures of student achievement that are locally established consistent with standards prescribed in commissioner's regulations, with student performance in the 2010-2011 school year used as the baseline. The remaining 60% of the score must be based on other locally selected measures, developed through Collective bargaining, consistent with standards prescribed in commissioner's regulations. * In 2012-2013, the new evaluation standards become applicable to all classroom teachers and building principals. If the Regents have not adopted a value-added growth model for the 2012-2013 school year, all teachers become subject to the requirement that applied to common branch and ELA and math teachers in grades 4-8 in 2011-2012: 40% of their evaluation must be based on student achievement measures, including 20% based on student growth on the state assessments or other measures of student growth prescribed by the state, and 20% based on other rigorous and comparable measures of student achievement that are locally established consistent with commissioner's regulations, with student performance in the 2011-2012 school year used as the baseline. The remaining 60% of the score must be based on other locally selected measures, developed through collective bargaining, consistent with the standards prescribed in commissioner's regulations. * Commencing in the first school year for which the Regents have adopted a value-added growth model, which can be as early as 2012-2013, the percentage of the evaluation that must be based on state assessment measures of student growth increases from 20% to 25%. In addition, the new §3012-c would; * Require that appropriate training be provided to each individual responsible for conducting an evaluation of a teacher or building principal pursuant to the revised APPR. * Establish in statute requirements for teacher or principal improvement plans that must be developed for any teacher or principal who receives a rating of "developing" or "ineffective," including: identification of needed areas of improvement; timeline for achieving improvement; the manner in which improvement will be assessed; and, where appropriate, differentiated activities to support improvement in those areas. * Require a locally established appeals procedure in each school district or BOCES under which the employee may only challenge the substance of the APPR, the district's or BOCES' adherence to the standards and methodologies for such reviews, adherence to the Commissioner's regulations and locally negotiated procedures, and the issuance or implementation of a teacher or principal improvement plan. * Require the Department to consult with an advisory committee (consisting of representatives of teachers, principals, superintendents, school boards, school district and BOCES officials, and other interested parties): * Prior to recommending that the Board of Regents approve use of a value-added growth model in evaluations; and * In developing regulations for the APPR. * For purposes of disciplinary proceedings under §3020 and §3020-a, define a "pattern of ineffective teaching or performance" as two consecutive annual ratings of "ineffective." * Require that all collective bargaining agreements for teachers and building principals entered into after July 1, 2010, be consistent with these new provisions. Provides that any conflicting provisions of collective bargaining agreements in effect on' July 1, 2010. are not abrogated and remain in effect until there is a successor agreement. Preserves the right of local collective bargaining representatives to negotiate evaluation procedures with a school district or BOCES per the Civil Service Law. Section 2 of the bill would amend Education Law §3020, on contractual alternatives to tenured teacher hearing procedures under §3020-a, to require that collective bargaining agreements with contractual alternatives that become effective after July 1, 2010, provide for an expedited hearing process before a single hearing officer on charges of incompetence based upon a pattern of ineffective teaching and provided that a pattern of ineffective teaching shall constitute very significant evidence of incompetence which may form the basis for just cause removal. Section 3 of the bill would amend Education Law 53020-a(2)(c) to remove the employee's option for either a three-member panel or a single hearing officer, and require a single hearing officer where the charges of incompetence are based solely upon a pattern of ineffective teaching. Section 4 of the bill would amend Education Law §3020-a(3)(a) to require the commissioner to notify the employing board and the employee of the hearing officer's record in his or her last five cases commencing and completing hearings in a timely manner. Section 5 of the bill would add a new subparagraph (1-a) to §3020-a(3)(c) to provide for an expedited hearing under §3020-a where charges of incompetence are brought based upon a pattern of ineffective teaching or performance. As with the contractual alternatives, the bill provides that a pattern of ineffective teaching or performance constitutes very significant evidence of incompetence, which may form the basis for just cause removal of a teacher or building principal. The charges in such an expedited hearing would be required to allege that the employing board developed and implemented a teacher or principal improvement plan for the employee following the first rating of "ineffective" and in the preceding evaluation if the teacher was rated "developing" in that year. Under the expedited hearing process: * The hearing must be completed within 60 days after the pre-hearing conference, with limitations on adjournments. o The hearing would be held before a single hearing officer. * The hearing would have to be commenced 7 days after the pre-hearing conference. * The hearing officer would be required to establish a schedule for the hearing at the pre-hearing conference to ensure compliance with the 60-day timeline and to ensure equitable distribution of days between the employing board and the employee. * Hearing officers would be authorized to grant an adjournment that would extend the hearing 60 days only if it is limited to circumstances beyond the control of the requesting party and an injustice would result if no adjournment is granted. * The commissioner would be authorized to enforce the time limitations for such expedited hearings by removing hearing officers who demonstrate a continued failure to commence and complete expedited hearings in a.timely manner from the list of hearing officers available far appointment to serve in such expedited hearings. Section 6 of this bill would add a new §21l-e to the Education Law to authorize the board of education of a school district, or the Chancellor of the New York City School District, to contract with an educational partnership organization, with the approval of the Commissioner, for a term of up to 5 years to manage a school identified as a persistently lowest-achieving school, or a BURR, for the purpose of intervention to turn around such school. An "educational partnership organization" (or "EPO") would be defined to include a board of cooperative educational services, a public or independent higher education institution, a cultural institution, or a private non-profit organization with a proven record of success in intervening in low-performing schools, provided that the term would not include a charter school. The contract would be required to include district expectations and/or benchmarks for school operations and academic outcomes, and provide that failure to meet such expectations or benchmarks may be ground for termination of the contract. The contract would also be required to address the manner in which students will be assigned to the school, the process for employees to transfer to the school, the services the district will provide to the school and the manner in which the school shall apply for and receive allocational and competitive grants. Under the bill, the EPO would assume the duties of the superintendent of schools with respect to the school, including but not limited to making recommendations to the board of education to implement the educational program, including decisions on budgetary decisions, staffing population decisions, student discipline, decisions on curriculum and determining the daily schedule and the school calendar, consistent with collective bargaining agreements. The board of education would retain ultimate decision-making authority over employment decisions, including hiring, evaluating, termination, granting of tenure, assignment of employees and staff development and over other terms and conditions of employees. However, the EPO would be authorized to exercise all the powers of a superintendent of schools over employment decisions, including but not limited to making recommendations to the board of education on staff assignments, hiring, tenure., evaluation and discipline and termination of employees. The employees assigned to the school would continue to be solely employed by the school district for all purposes, and would retain all their tenure rights and other employment rights conferred by law. The board of education, and not the EPO, would be the employer for purposes of the Taylor Law (Article 14 of the Civil Service Law). The employees assigned to the school would remain members of the applicable negotiating unit containing like titles or positions for the school district would be covered by the collective bargaining agreement covering that school district's negotiating unit. However, the duly recognized or certified collective bargaining representative for that negotiating, unit would be authorized to modify or supplement, in writing, the collective bargaining agreement in consultation with the employees of the negotiating unit working in the school. All such modifications of, or supplements to the collective bargaining agreement would be subject to ratification by the employees employed within the school and by the board of education of the school district. The bill further provides that where the EPO makes a recommendation to the board of education on implementing the educational program or on employment decisions and the recommendation is denied, the board is required to state its reasons for the denial, which shall include an explanation of how the denial will improve student achievement in the school and how such action is consistent with the accountability plans approved by the Commissioner for the school and the district. The board of education would not be prevented, however, from denying a recommendation that is in violation of law or violates a collective bargaining agreement. The bill further provides that if the board of education rejects a recommendation to terminate the probationary appointment of an employee assigned to the school or a recommendation to deny tenure to such an employee, the board of education would be required to transfer the employee to another position in the school district within that employee's tenure area or to create such a position. The bill also supplies definitions of "board of education," "school district" and "superintendent of schools" for purposes of new §211-e of the Education Law. JUSTIFICATION: This bill would enact a comprehensive statewide system of teacher and principal evaluation that measures teacher and principal effectiveness in a sophisticated way that makes student performance a major factor in the evaluation. The bill would require that the evaluation be based on multiple measures of effectiveness, but that objective data on student growth and other measures of student achievement constitute 400 of the composite effectiveness score of the teacher or principal. The remaining GO% would be locally developed measures that would include classroom observations and other measures of teacher performance. Rather than provide for an automatic rating of ineffectiveness based on student assessment data, this allows for an evaluation that takes into account all factors bearing on teacher or Principal performance. In addition, this bill would enhance the ability of New York school districts to intervene effectively in persistently lowest achieving schools and Schools Under Registration Review by engaging the services of an educational partnership organization with expertise in turning around low-performing schools to manage the operations of the school, subject to the authority of the board of education. Enactment of the bill would provide an additional tool to New York school districts, consistent with Federal requirements, that they do not have under current law to implement a. "restart model," It does so in a way that recognizes the ultimate authority of the board of education in overseeing the school, while preserving the rights of the public employees assigned to the school. PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New legislation. FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: This bill would make New York more competitive for additional federal funding available in the Race to the Top grant pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediate, provided that sections 1 through 5 take effect July 1, 2010.
2009-S7991 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7991 I N S E N A T E May 28, 2010 ___________ Introduced by Sen. OPPENHEIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the evaluation of teachers and principals; and to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing school districts to contract with educational partner- ship organizations to turn around certain low-performing schools THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3012-c to read as follows: S 3012-C. ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND BUILDING PRINCIPALS. 1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, THE ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS OF ALL CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND BUILDING PRINCIPALS EMPLOYED BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SHALL BE CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION. SUCH PERFORMANCE REVIEWS WHICH ARE CONDUCTED ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN, OR ON OR AFTER THE DATE SPECIFIED IN PARAGRAPH C OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION WHERE APPLICABLE, SHALL INCLUDE MEASURES OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND BE CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION. SUCH ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS SHALL BE A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR FOR EMPLOYMENT DECISIONS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROMOTION, RETENTION, TENURE DETERMINATION, TERMINATION, AND SUPPLEMENTAL COMPEN- SATION, WHICH DECISIONS ARE TO BE MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH LOCALLY DEVEL- OPED PROCEDURES NEGOTIATED PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF ARTICLE FOUR- TEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. SUCH PERFORMANCE REVIEWS SHALL ALSO BE A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR IN TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, COACHING, INDUCTION SUPPORT AND DIFFERENTIATED PROFES- SIONAL DEVELOPMENT, WHICH ARE TO BE LOCALLY ESTABLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROCEDURES NEGOTIATED PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF ARTICLE FOUR- TEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. 2. A. THE ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND BUILDING PRINCIPALS SHALL DIFFERENTIATE TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL EFFECTIVENESS USING THE FOLLOWING EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD17483-01-0 S. 7991 2 QUALITY RATING CATEGORIES: HIGHLY EFFECTIVE, EFFECTIVE, DEVELOPING AND INEFFECTIVE, WITH EXPLICIT MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM SCORING RANGES FOR EACH CATEGORY, AS PRESCRIBED IN THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER. SUCH ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS SHALL RESULT IN A SINGLE COMPOS- ITE TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL EFFECTIVENESS SCORE, WHICH INCORPORATES MULTI- PLE MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS RELATED TO THE CRITERIA INCLUDED IN THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER. EXCEPT FOR THE STUDENT GROWTH MEASURES PRESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPHS E, F AND G OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE ELEMENTS COMPRISING THE COMPOSITE EFFECTIVENESS SCORE SHALL BE LOCALLY DEVELOPED, CONSISTENT WITH THE STANDARDS PRESCRIBED IN THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER, THROUGH NEGOTIATIONS CONDUCTED, PURSUANT TO THE REQUIRE- MENTS OF ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. B. ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS CONDUCTED BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN OF CLASSROOM TEACHERS OF COMMON BRANCH SUBJECTS OR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS OR MATHEMAT- ICS IN GRADES FOUR TO EIGHT AND ALL BUILDING PRINCIPALS OF SCHOOLS IN WHICH SUCH TEACHERS ARE EMPLOYED SHALL BE CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION AND SHALL USE TWO THOUSAND TEN--TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN SCHOOL YEAR STUDENT DATA AS THE BASELINE FOR THE INITIAL COMPUTATION OF THE COMPOSITE TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL EFFECTIVENESS SCORE FOR SUCH CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS. C. ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS CONDUCTED BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE OF ALL CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND ALL BUILDING PRINCIPALS SHALL BE CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION AND SHALL USE TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN--TWO THOUSAND TWELVE SCHOOL YEAR STUDENT DATA AS THE BASELINE FOR THE INITIAL COMPUTATION OF THE COMPOSITE TEACHER OR PRINCI- PAL EFFECTIVENESS SCORE FOR SUCH CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, AN ADMINISTRATOR IN CHARGE OF AN INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM OF A BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A BUILDING PRINCIPAL. D. PRIOR TO ANY EVALUATION BEING CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION, EACH INDIVIDUAL WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONDUCTING AN EVALUATION OF A TEACHER OR BUILDING PRINCIPAL SHALL RECEIVE APPROPRIATE TRAINING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION. E. FOR ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH B OF THIS SUBDIVISION IN THE TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN--TWO THOUSAND TWELVE SCHOOL YEAR, FORTY PERCENT OF THE COMPOSITE SCORE OF EFFECTIVENESS SHALL BE BASED ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT MEASURES AS FOLLOWS: (I) TWENTY PERCENT OF THE EVALUATION SHALL BE BASED UPON STUDENT GROWTH DATA ON STATE ASSESSMENTS AS PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER OR A COMPA- RABLE MEASURE OF STUDENT GROWTH IF SUCH GROWTH DATA IS NOT AVAILABLE; AND (II) TWENTY PERCENT SHALL BE BASED ON OTHER LOCALLY SELECTED MEAS- URES OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT THAT ARE DETERMINED TO BE RIGOROUS AND COMPARABLE ACROSS CLASSROOMS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER AND AS ARE DEVELOPED LOCALLY IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH PROCEDURES NEGOTIATED PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. F. FOR ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH C OF THIS SUBDIVISION IN ANY SCHOOL YEAR PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHOOL YEAR FOR WHICH THE BOARD OF REGENTS HAS APPROVED USE OF A VALUE-ADDED GROWTH MODEL, BUT NOT EARLIER THAN THE TWO THOUSAND TWELVE- -TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN SCHOOL YEAR, FORTY PERCENT OF THE COMPOSITE SCORE OF EFFECTIVENESS SHALL BE BASED ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT MEASURES AS FOLLOWS: (I) TWENTY PERCENT OF THE EVALUATION SHALL BE BASED UPON STUDENT GROWTH DATA ON STATE ASSESSMENTS AS PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMIS- S. 7991 3 SIONER OR A COMPARABLE MEASURE OF STUDENT GROWTH IF SUCH GROWTH DATA IS NOT AVAILABLE; AND (II) TWENTY PERCENT SHALL BE BASED ON OTHER LOCALLY SELECTED MEASURES OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT THAT ARE DETERMINED TO BE RIGOROUS AND COMPARABLE ACROSS CLASSROOMS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGU- LATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER AND AS ARE DEVELOPED LOCALLY IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH PROCEDURES NEGOTIATED PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. G. FOR ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH C OF THIS SUBDIVISION IN THE FIRST SCHOOL YEAR FOR WHICH THE BOARD OF REGENTS HAS APPROVED USE OF A VALUE-ADDED GROWTH MODEL AND THEREAFTER, FORTY PERCENT OF THE COMPOSITE SCORE OF EFFECTIVENESS SHALL BE BASED ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT MEASURES AS FOLLOWS: (I) TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE EVALUATION SHALL BE BASED UPON STUDENT GROWTH DATA ON STATE ASSESSMENTS AS PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER OR A COMPARABLE MEASURE OF STUDENT GROWTH IF SUCH GROWTH DATA IS NOT AVAILABLE; AND (II) FIFTEEN PERCENT SHALL BE BASED ON OTHER LOCALLY SELECTED MEASURES OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT THAT ARE DETERMINED TO BE RIGOROUS AND COMPARABLE ACROSS CLASSROOMS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER AND AS ARE LOCALLY DEVELOPED IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH PROCEDURES NEGOTIATED PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DEVELOP THE VALUE-ADDED GROWTH MODEL AND SHALL CONSULT WITH THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF THIS SECTION PRIOR TO RECOMMENDING THAT THE BOARD OF REGENTS APPROVE ITS USE IN EVALUATIONS. H. THE REMAINING PERCENT OF THE EVALUATIONS, RATINGS AND EFFECTIVENESS SCORES SHALL BE LOCALLY DEVELOPED, CONSISTENT WITH THE STANDARDS PRESCRIBED IN THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER, THROUGH NEGOTIATIONS CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. I. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, STUDENT GROWTH MEANS THE CHANGE IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT FOR AN INDIVIDUAL STUDENT BETWEEN TWO OR MORE POINTS IN TIME. 3. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO EXCUSE SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FROM COMPLYING WITH THE STANDARDS SET FORTH IN THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR CONDUCTING ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS OF CLASSROOM TEACHERS OR PRINCIPALS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO REQUIRED QUALITY RATING CATEGORIES, IN CONDUCTING EVALUATIONS PRIOR TO JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN, OR, FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS OR PRINCIPALS SUBJECT TO PARAGRAPH C OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION, PRIOR TO JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE. 4. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, UPON RATING A TEACHER OR A PRINCIPAL AS DEVELOPING OR INEFFECTIVE THROUGH AN ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR BOARD OF COOPER- ATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SHALL FORMULATE AND COMMENCE IMPLEMENTATION OF A TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR SUCH TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE BUT IN NO CASE LATER THAN TEN DAYS AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH TEACHERS ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT PRIOR TO THE OPENING OF CLASSES FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR. SUCH IMPROVEMENT PLAN SHALL BE CONSISTENT WITH THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER AND DEVELOPED LOCALLY THROUGH NEGOTI- ATIONS CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. SUCH IMPROVEMENT PLAN SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NEED NOT BE LIMITED TO, IDEN- TIFICATION OF NEEDED AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT, A TIMELINE FOR ACHIEVING IMPROVEMENT, THE MANNER IN WHICH IMPROVEMENT WILL BE ASSESSED, AND, WHERE APPROPRIATE, DIFFERENTIATED ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT A TEACHER'S OR PRINCIPAL'S IMPROVEMENT IN THOSE AREAS. S. 7991 4 5. AN APPEALS PROCEDURE SHALL BE LOCALLY ESTABLISHED IN EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT AND IN EACH BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES BY WHICH THE EVALUATED TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL MAY ONLY CHALLENGE THE SUBSTANCE OF THE ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S OR BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES' ADHERENCE TO THE STANDARDS AND METHODOLOGIES REQUIRED FOR SUCH REVIEWS, PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, THE ADHERENCE TO THE REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER AND COMPLIANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE LOCALLY NEGOTIATED PROCEDURES, AS WELL AS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S OR BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES' ISSUANCE AND/OR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TERMS OF THE TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN, AS REQUIRED UNDER THIS SECTION. THE SPECIFICS OF THE APPEAL PROCE- DURE SHALL BE LOCALLY ESTABLISHED THROUGH NEGOTIATIONS CONDUCTED PURSU- ANT TO ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. AN EVALUATION WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF AN APPEAL SHALL NOT BE SOUGHT TO BE OFFERED IN EVIDENCE OR PLACED IN EVIDENCE IN ANY PROCEEDING CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO EITHER SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWENTY-A OF THIS ARTICLE OR ANY LOCALLY NEGOTI- ATED ALTERNATE DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE, UNTIL THE APPEAL PROCESS IS CONCLUDED. 6. FOR PURPOSES OF DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO SECTIONS THREE THOUSAND TWENTY AND THREE THOUSAND TWENTY-A OF THIS ARTICLE, A PATTERN OF INEFFECTIVE TEACHING OR PERFORMANCE SHALL BE DEFINED TO MEAN TWO CONSECUTIVE ANNUAL INEFFECTIVE RATINGS RECEIVED BY A CLASSROOM TEACHER OR BUILDING PRINCIPAL PURSUANT TO ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION. 7. THE REGULATIONS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEVELOPED IN CONSULTATION WITH AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE CONSISTING OF REPRESENTATIVES OF TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS, SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS, SCHOOL BOARDS, SCHOOL DISTRICT AND BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES OFFICIALS AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES. THE REGULATIONS SHALL ALSO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ANY (I) PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS; (II) STANDARDS FOR PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS; AND (III) STANDARDS FOR A CONTINUUM OF SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS DEVELOPED IN CONSULTATION WITH THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. REGULATIONS PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE EFFECTIVE NO LATER THAN JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN, FOR IMPLEMENTATION IN THE TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN--TWO THOUSAND TWELVE SCHOOL YEAR. 8. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, ALL COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS APPLICABLE TO CLASS- ROOM TEACHERS OR BUILDING PRINCIPALS ENTERED INTO AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN SHALL BE CONSISTENT WITH REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO ABROGATE ANY CONFLICTING PROVISIONS OF ANY COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT IN EFFECT ON JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN DURING THE TERM OF SUCH AGREEMENT AND UNTIL THE ENTRY INTO A SUCCESSOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT, PROVIDED THAT NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, UPON EXPIRA- TION OF SUCH TERM AND THE ENTRY INTO A SUCCESSOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY. FURTHERMORE, NOTH- ING IN THIS SECTION OR IN ANY RULE OR REGULATION PROMULGATED HEREUNDER SHALL IN ANY WAY, ALTER, IMPAIR OR DIMINISH THE RIGHTS OF A LOCAL COLLECTIVE BARGAINING REPRESENTATIVE TO NEGOTIATE EVALUATION PROCEDURES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES. S 2. Subdivisions 1 and 3 and paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 3020 of the education law, subdivision 1 as added by chapter 691 of the laws of 1994, subdivision 3 as added by chapter 3 of the laws of 2000 S. 7991 5 and paragraph a of subdivision 4 as added by section 1 of part J of chapter 93 of the laws of 2002, are amended to read as follows: 1. No person enjoying the benefits of tenure shall be disciplined or removed during a term of employment except for just cause and in accord- ance with the procedures specified in section three thousand twenty-a of this article or in accordance with alternate disciplinary procedures contained in a collective bargaining agreement covering his or her terms and conditions of employment that was effective on or before September first, nineteen hundred ninety-four and has been unaltered by renegoti- ation, or in accordance with alternative disciplinary procedures contained in a collective bargaining agreement covering his or her terms and conditions of employment that becomes effective on or after Septem- ber first, nineteen hundred ninety-four; provided, however, that any such alternate disciplinary procedures contained in a collective bargaining agreement that becomes effective on or after September first, nineteen hundred ninety-four, must provide for the written election by the employee of either the procedures specified in such section three thousand twenty-a or the alternative disciplinary procedures contained in the collective bargaining agreement and must result in a disposition of the disciplinary charge within the amount of time allowed therefor under such section three thousand twenty-a; AND PROVIDED FURTHER THAT ANY ALTERNATE DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES CONTAINED IN A COLLECTIVE BARGAIN- ING AGREEMENT THAT BECOMES EFFECTIVE ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO THOU- SAND TEN SHALL PROVIDE FOR AN EXPEDITED HEARING PROCESS BEFORE A SINGLE HEARING OFFICER IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBPARAGRAPH (I-A) OF PARAGRAPH C OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWENTY-A OF THIS ARTICLE IN CASES IN WHICH CHARGES OF INCOMPETENCE ARE BROUGHT BASED SOLELY UPON AN ALLEGATION OF A PATTERN OF INEFFECTIVE TEACHING OR PERFORMANCE AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWELVE-C OF THIS ARTICLE AND SHALL PROVIDE THAT SUCH A PATTERN OF INEFFECTIVE TEACHING OR PERFORMANCE SHALL CONSTITUTE VERY SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE OF INCOMPETENCE WHICH MAY FORM THE BASIS FOR JUST CAUSE REMOVAL. 3. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the procedures set forth in section three thousand twenty-a of this article and subdi- vision seven of section twenty-five hundred ninety-j of this chapter may be modified or replaced by agreements negotiated between the city school district of the city of New York and any employee organization repres- enting employees or titles that are or were covered by any memorandum of agreement executed by such city school district and the council of supervisors and administrators of the city of New York on or after December first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine. Where such procedures are so modified or replaced: (i) compliance with such modification or replacement procedures shall satisfy any provision in this chapter that requires compliance with section three thousand twenty-a, (ii) any employee against whom charges have been preferred prior to the effective date of such modification or replacement shall continue to be subject to the provisions of such section as in effect on the date such charges were preferred, (iii) the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this section shall not apply to agreements negotiated pursuant to this subdi- vision, and (iv) in accordance with paragraph (e) of subdivision one of section two hundred nine-a of the civil service law, such modification or replacement procedures contained in an agreement negotiated pursuant to this subdivision shall continue as terms of such agreement after its expiration until a new agreement is negotiated; PROVIDED THAT ANY ALTER- NATE DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES CONTAINED IN A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREE- MENT THAT BECOMES EFFECTIVE ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN S. 7991 6 SHALL PROVIDE FOR AN EXPEDITED HEARING PROCESS BEFORE A SINGLE HEARING OFFICER IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBPARAGRAPH (I-A) OF PARAGRAPH C OF SUBDIVI- SION THREE OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWENTY-A OF THIS ARTICLE IN CASES IN WHICH CHARGES OF INCOMPETENCE ARE BROUGHT AGAINST A BUILDING PRINCI- PAL BASED SOLELY UPON AN ALLEGATION OF A PATTERN OF INEFFECTIVE TEACHING OR PERFORMANCE AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWELVE-C OF THIS ARTICLE AND SHALL PROVIDE THAT SUCH A PATTERN OF INEFFECTIVE TEACHING OR PERFORMANCE SHALL CONSTITUTE VERY SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE OF INCOMPETENCE WHICH MAY FORM THE BASIS FOR JUST CAUSE REMOVAL OF THE BUILDING PRINCI- PAL. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the commission- er [of education] shall review any appeals authorized by such modifica- tion or replacement procedures within fifteen days from receipt by such commissioner of the record of prior proceedings in the matter subject to appeal. Such review shall have preference over all other appeals or proceedings pending before such commissioner. a. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the procedures set forth in section three thousand twenty-a of this article and subdi- vision seven of section twenty-five hundred ninety-j of this chapter may be modified by agreements negotiated between the city school district of the city of New York and any employee organization representing employ- ees or titles that are or were covered by any memorandum of agreement executed by such city school district and the united federation of teachers on or after June tenth, two thousand two. Where such proce- dures are so modified: (i) compliance with such modified procedures shall satisfy any provision of this chapter that requires compliance with section three thousand twenty-a of this article; (ii) any employee against whom charges have been preferred prior to the effective date of such modification shall continue to be subject to the provisions of such section as in effect on the date such charges were preferred; (iii) the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this section shall not apply to agreements negotiated pursuant to this subdivision, except that no person enjoying the benefits of tenure shall be disciplined or removed during a term of employment except for just cause; and (iv) in accord- ance with paragraph (e) of subdivision one of section two hundred nine-a of the civil service law, such modified procedures contained in an agreement negotiated pursuant to this subdivision shall continue as terms of such agreement after its expiration until a new agreement is negotiated; AND PROVIDED FURTHER THAT ANY ALTERNATE DISCIPLINARY PROCE- DURES CONTAINED IN A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT THAT BECOMES EFFEC- TIVE ON OR AFTER JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN SHALL PROVIDE FOR AN EXPE- DITED HEARING PROCESS BEFORE A SINGLE HEARING OFFICER IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBPARAGRAPH (I-A) OF PARAGRAPH C OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWENTY-A OF THIS ARTICLE IN CASES IN WHICH CHARGES OF INCOMPE- TENCE ARE BROUGHT BASED SOLELY UPON AN ALLEGATION OF A PATTERN OF INEF- FECTIVE TEACHING OR PERFORMANCE AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWELVE-C OF THIS ARTICLE AND SHALL PROVIDE THAT SUCH A PATTERN OF INEF- FECTIVE TEACHING OR PERFORMANCE SHALL CONSTITUTE VERY SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE OF INCOMPETENCE WHICH MAY FORM THE BASIS FOR JUST CAUSE REMOVAL. S 3. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 3020-a of the education law, as amended by chapter 691 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: (c) Within ten days of receipt of the statement of charges, the employee shall notify the clerk or secretary of the employing board in writing whether he or she desires a hearing on the charges and when the charges concern pedagogical incompetence or issues involving pedagogical S. 7991 7 judgment, his or her choice of either a single hearing officer or a three member panel, PROVIDED THAT A THREE MEMBER PANEL SHALL NOT BE AVAILABLE WHERE THE CHARGES CONCERN PEDAGOGICAL INCOMPETENCE BASED SOLE- LY UPON A TEACHER'S OR PRINCIPAL'S PATTERN OF INEFFECTIVE TEACHING OR PERFORMANCE AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWELVE-C OF THIS ARTI- CLE. All other charges shall be heard by a single hearing officer. S 4. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 3020-a of the education law, as amended by chapter 691 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: a. Notice of hearing. Upon receipt of a request for a hearing in accordance with subdivision two of this section, the commissioner [of education] shall forthwith notify the American Arbitration Association (hereinafter "association") of the need for a hearing and shall request the association to provide to the commissioner forthwith a list of names of persons chosen by the association from the association's panel of labor arbitrators to potentially serve as hearing officers together with relevant biographical information on each arbitrator. Upon receipt of said list and biographical information, the commissioner [of education] shall forthwith send a copy of both simultaneously to the employing board and the employee. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ALSO SIMULTANEOUSLY NOTIFY BOTH THE EMPLOYING BOARD AND THE EMPLOYEE OF EACH POTENTIAL HEAR- ING OFFICER'S RECORD IN THE LAST FIVE CASES OF COMMENCING AND COMPLETING HEARINGS WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS PRESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION. S 5. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 3020-a of the education law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (i-a) to read as follows: (I-A)(A) WHERE CHARGES OF INCOMPETENCE ARE BROUGHT BASED SOLELY UPON A PATTERN OF INEFFECTIVE TEACHING OR PERFORMANCE OF A CLASSROOM TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL, AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWELVE-C OF THIS ARTI- CLE, THE HEARING SHALL BE CONDUCTED BEFORE AND BY A SINGLE HEARING OFFI- CER IN AN EXPEDITED HEARING, WHICH SHALL COMMENCE WITHIN SEVEN DAYS AFTER THE PRE-HEARING CONFERENCE AND SHALL BE COMPLETED WITHIN SIXTY DAYS AFTER THE PRE-HEARING CONFERENCE. THE HEARING OFFICER SHALL ESTAB- LISH A HEARING SCHEDULE AT THE PRE-HEARING CONFERENCE TO ENSURE THAT THE EXPEDITED HEARING IS COMPLETED WITHIN THE REQUIRED TIMEFRAMES AND TO ENSURE AN EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF DAYS BETWEEN THE EMPLOYING BOARD AND THE CHARGED EMPLOYEE. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, NO ADJOURNMENTS MAY BE GRANTED THAT WOULD EXTEND THE HEARING BEYOND SUCH SIXTY DAYS, EXCEPT AS AUTHORIZED IN THIS SUBPARA- GRAPH. A HEARING OFFICER, UPON REQUEST, MAY GRANT A LIMITED AND TIME SPECIFIC ADJOURNMENT THAT WOULD EXTEND THE HEARING BEYOND SUCH SIXTY DAYS IF THE HEARING OFFICER DETERMINES THAT THE DELAY IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO A CIRCUMSTANCE OR OCCURRENCE SUBSTANTIALLY BEYOND THE CONTROL OF THE REQUESTING PARTY AND AN INJUSTICE WOULD RESULT IF THE ADJOURNMENT WERE NOT GRANTED. (B) SUCH CHARGES SHALL ALLEGE THAT THE EMPLOYING BOARD HAS DEVELOPED AND SUBSTANTIALLY IMPLEMENTED A TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWELVE-C OF THIS ARTICLE FOR THE EMPLOYEE FOLLOWING THE FIRST EVALUATION IN WHICH THE EMPLOYEE WAS RATED INEFFECTIVE, AND THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING EVALU- ATION IF THE EMPLOYEE WAS RATED DEVELOPING. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, A PATTERN OF INEFFECTIVE TEACHING OR PERFORMANCE AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWELVE-C OF THIS ARTI- CLE SHALL CONSTITUTE VERY SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE OF INCOMPETENCE FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION. NOTHING IN THIS SUBPARAGRAPH SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO LIMIT THE DEFENSES WHICH THE EMPLOYEE MAY PLACE BEFORE THE S. 7991 8 HEARING OFFICER IN CHALLENGING THE ALLEGATION OF A PATTERN OF INEFFEC- TIVE TEACHING OR PERFORMANCE. (C) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ANNUALLY INFORM ALL HEARING OFFICERS WHO HAVE HEARD CASES PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION DURING THE PRECEDING YEAR THAT THE TIME PERIODS PRESCRIBED IN THIS SUBPARAGRAPH FOR CONDUCTING EXPE- DITED HEARINGS ARE TO BE STRICTLY FOLLOWED. A RECORD OF CONTINUED FAIL- URE TO COMMENCE AND COMPLETE EXPEDITED HEARINGS WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS PRESCRIBED IN THIS SUBPARAGRAPH SHALL BE CONSIDERED GROUNDS FOR THE COMMISSIONER TO EXCLUDE SUCH INDIVIDUAL FROM THE LIST OF POTENTIAL HEAR- ING OFFICERS SENT TO THE EMPLOYING BOARD AND THE EMPLOYEE FOR SUCH EXPE- DITED HEARINGS. S 6. The education law is amended by adding a new section 211-e to read as follows: S 211-E. EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS. 1. THE BOARD OF EDUCA- TION OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND THE CHANCELLOR OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE COMMIS- SIONER, SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO CONTRACT, FOR A TERM OF UP TO FIVE YEARS, WITH AN EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION TO INTERVENE IN A SCHOOL DESIGNATED BY THE COMMISSIONER AS A PERSISTENTLY LOWEST-ACHIEVING SCHOOL, CONSISTENT WITH FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS, OR A SCHOOL UNDER REGISTRATION REVIEW. 2. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, AND EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION, SUCH CONTRACT SHALL CONTAIN PROVISIONS AUTHORIZING THE EDUCATIONAL PARTNER- SHIP ORGANIZATION TO ASSUME THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS FOR PURPOSES OF IMPLEMENTING THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OF THE SCHOOL, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION ON BUDGETARY DECISIONS, STAFFING POPULATION DECI- SIONS, STUDENT DISCIPLINE DECISIONS, DECISIONS ON CURRICULUM AND DETER- MINING THE DAILY SCHEDULE AND SCHOOL CALENDAR, ALL OF WHICH RECOMMENDA- TIONS SHALL BE CONSISTENT WITH APPLICABLE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS. SUCH CONTRACT SHALL INCLUDE DISTRICT PERFORMANCE EXPECTA- TIONS AND/OR BENCHMARKS FOR SCHOOL OPERATIONS AND ACADEMIC OUTCOMES, AND FAILURE TO MEET SUCH EXPECTATIONS OR BENCHMARKS MAY BE GROUNDS FOR TERMINATION OF THE CONTRACT PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF ITS TERM. SUCH CONTRACT SHALL ALSO ADDRESS THE MANNER IN WHICH STUDENTS WILL BE ASSIGNED TO THE SCHOOL, THE PROCESS FOR EMPLOYEES TO TRANSFER INTO THE SCHOOL, THE SERVICES THAT THE DISTRICT WILL PROVIDE TO THE SCHOOL, AND THE MANNER IN WHICH THE SCHOOL SHALL APPLY FOR AND RECEIVE ALLOCATIONAL AND COMPETITIVE GRANTS. 3. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL RETAIN THE ULTIMATE DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY OVER THE HIRING, EVALUATING, TERMINATION, DISCIPLINING, GRANT- ING OF TENURE, ASSIGNMENT OF EMPLOYEES SERVING IN THE SCHOOL AS WELL AS WITH RESPECT TO STAFF DEVELOPMENT FOR THOSE EMPLOYEES, TOGETHER WITH AUTHORITY CONCERNING ALL OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT, ALL OF WHICH DECISIONS SHALL BE MADE IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH APPLICABLE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS. HOWEVER, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, UPON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE CONTRACT, THE EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO EXERCISE ALL POWERS OF A SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS WITH RESPECT TO SUCH EMPLOY- MENT DECISIONS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS, AS APPLICABLE, TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION IN CONNECTION WITH AND PRIOR TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION MAKING DECISIONS REGARDING STAFF ASSIGNMENTS, THE HIRING, THE GRANTING OF TENURE, THE EVALUATING, THE DISCIPLINING AND TERMINATION OF EMPLOYEES, AS WELL AS CONCERNING STAFF DEVELOPMENT. THE EMPLOYEES ASSIGNED TO THE SCHOOL SHALL SOLELY BE IN THE EMPLOY OF THE S. 7991 9 SCHOOL DISTRICT AND SHALL RETAIN THEIR TENURE RIGHTS AND ALL OTHER EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS CONFERRED BY LAW, AND SERVICE IN THE SCHOOL SHALL CONSTITUTE SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR ALL PURPOSES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE REQUIREMENTS FOR CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS AND PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEMS. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, FOR PURPOSES OF ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW, EMPLOYEES IN THE SCHOOL SHALL BE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED ONE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW AND SHALL NOT BE DEEMED EMPLOYEES OF THE EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION BY REASON OF THE POWERS GRANTED TO THE EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION BY THIS SECTION. ALL SUCH EMPLOYEES SHALL BE MEMBERS OF THE APPLICABLE NEGOTIAT- ING UNIT CONTAINING LIKE TITLES OR POSITIONS FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT IN WHICH SUCH SCHOOL IS LOCATED, AND SHALL BE COVERED BY THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT COVERING THAT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT'S NEGOTIATING UNIT, EXCEPT THAT THE DULY RECOGNIZED OR CERTIFIED COLLEC- TIVE BARGAINING REPRESENTATIVE FOR THAT NEGOTIATING UNIT MAY MODIFY OR SUPPLEMENT, IN WRITING, THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT IN CONSULTA- TION WITH THE EMPLOYEES OF THE NEGOTIATING UNIT WORKING IN THE SCHOOL. ALL SUCH MODIFICATIONS OF, OR SUPPLEMENTS TO THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT ARE SUBJECT TO RATIFICATION BY THE EMPLOYEES EMPLOYED WITHIN THE SCHOOL AND BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, CONSISTENT WITH ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. UPON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S CONTRACT WITH THE EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION, THE EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION SHALL BE EMPOWERED TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION WITH RESPECT TO THE SCOPE OF, AND PROCESS FOR MAKING MODIFICATIONS AND ADDI- TIONS TO THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT. 4. WHERE A RECOMMENDATION IS MADE BY THE EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OR THREE OF THIS SECTION, AND SUCH RECOMMENDATION IS DENIED, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL STATE ITS REASONS FOR THE DENIAL, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE AN EXPLANATION OF HOW SUCH DENIAL WILL PROMOTE IMPROVEMENT OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN THE SCHOOL AND HOW SUCH ACTION IS CONSISTENT WITH ALL ACCOUNTABILITY PLANS APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR THE SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. NOTHING IN THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO PREVENT A BOARD OF EDUCATION FROM DENYING A RECOMMENDATION OF THE EDUCA- TIONAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION BASED UPON THE BOARD OF EDUCATION'S DETERMINATION THAT CARRYING OUT SUCH RECOMMENDATION WOULD RESULT IN A VIOLATION OF LAW OR VIOLATION OF THE TERMS OF AN APPLICABLE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT. IF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION REJECTS A RECOMMENDATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION TO TERMINATE A PROBATIONARY EMPLOYEE ASSIGNED TO THE SCHOOL OR TO DENY TENURE TO AN EMPLOYEE ASSIGNED TO THE SCHOOL, IT SHALL BE THE DUTY OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO TRANSFER SUCH EMPLOYEE TO ANOTHER POSITION IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WITHIN SUCH EMPLOYEE'S TENURE AREA FOR WHICH THE EMPLOYEE IS QUALIFIED, OR TO CREATE SUCH A POSITION. 5. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS: (I) "EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATION" MEANS A BOARD OF COOPER- ATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, A PUBLIC OR INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT INSTITU- TION OF HIGHER EDUCATION, A CULTURAL INSTITUTION, OR A PRIVATE, NON-PRO- FIT ORGANIZATION WITH A PROVEN RECORD OF SUCCESS IN INTERVENING IN LOW-PERFORMING SCHOOLS, AS DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER, PROVIDED THAT SUCH TERM SHALL NOT INCLUDE A CHARTER SCHOOL; S. 7991 10 (II) "BOARD OF EDUCATION" MEANS THE TRUSTEES OR BOARD OF EDUCATION OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT, OR, IN THE CASE OF A CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, THE CHANCELLOR OF SUCH CITY DISTRICT; (III) "SCHOOL DISTRICT" MEANS A COMMON, UNION FREE, CENTRAL, CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL OR CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, OTHER THAN A SPECIAL ACT SCHOOL DISTRICT AS DEFINED IN SECTION FOUR THOUSAND ONE OF THIS CHAPTER. (IV) "SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS" MEANS THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND, IN THE CASE OF A CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, A COMMUNITY SUPERINTEN- DENT AND THE CHANCELLOR OF SUCH CITY DISTRICT WHEN ACTING IN THE ROLE OF A SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. S 7. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however that the provisions of sections one, two, three, four and five of this act shall take effect July 1, 2010, provided, further, if this act shall become a law after such date it shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after July 1, 2010.
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