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Assembly Bill A11481

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to the turnaround or transformation of certain schools

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2009-A11481 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง305, Ed L

2009-A11481 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the turnaround or transformation of certain schools identified as persistently lowest achieving or deemed a school under registration review.

2009-A11481 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  11481

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 16, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Nolan) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to implementing the turn-
  around transformation of certain schools

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 42 to read as follows:
  42.  THE COMMISSIONER IN CONJUNCTION WITH A LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT MUST
CONDUCT AN ASSESSMENT OF ANY SCHOOL IDENTIFIED  AS  PERSISTENTLY  LOWEST
ACHIEVING  OR IS DEEMED A SCHOOL UNDER REGISTRATION REVIEW. THIS ASSESS-
MENT IS TO DETERMINE WHAT FACTORS CAUSED THE SCHOOL TO BE IDENTIFIED  AS
PERSISTENTLY  LOWEST  ACHIEVING  OR  DEEMED  A SCHOOL UNDER REGISTRATION
REVIEW, AS WELL AS IDENTIFIES CORRECTIVE MEASURES NEEDED.   THE  ASSESS-
MENT  IS TO INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO A REVIEW OF STUDENT PLACEMENT
POLICIES SET BY THE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. THIS ASSESSMENT MUST BE  DONE
BEFORE  IMPLEMENTATION  OF  ANY  OF  THE  TURNAROUND INTERVENTION MODELS
AUTHORIZED UNDER REGULATION.
  S 2. Section 305 of the education law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
subdivision 43 to read as follows:
  43.  WHEN  IMPLEMENTING  THE  TURNAROUND OR TRANSFORMATION MODEL FOR A
SCHOOL IDENTIFIED AS PERSISTENTLY LOWEST ACHIEVING OR  DEEMED  A  SCHOOL
UNDER  REGISTRATION  REVIEW,  THE SUPERINTENDENT MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION
RETAIN THE SCHOOL'S PRINCIPAL IF: (A) THE  PRINCIPAL  HAS  WORKED  THREE
YEARS  OR  LESS AT THE IDENTIFIED SCHOOL, OR (B) THE SCHOOL'S GRADUATION
RATES, WHILE NOT MEETING THE STATE GRADUATION RATES, HAVE IMPROVED  OVER
THE COURSE OF THE PAST THREE YEARS.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD17740-01-0

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