Assembly Bill A10452

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to the process of annual professional performance reviews and the confidentiality of personnel records of classroom teachers and building principals

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A10452 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3012-c, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A5700

2011-A10452 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the process of annual professional performance reviews must ensure that no teacher or principal who receives a developing rating in all three subcomponents can receive an overall rating of ineffective; provides for the confidentiality of personnel records of classroom teachers and building principals.

2011-A10452 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  10452

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 29, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BRENNAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the process of  annual
  professional  performance reviews and the confidentiality of personnel
  records of classroom teachers and building principals

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

  Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph j of subdivision 2 of section
3012-c of the education law, as added by chapter 21 of the laws of 2012,
is amended to read as follows:
  (2) Such process must ensure that it is  possible  for  a  teacher  or
principal to obtain each point in the applicable scoring ranges, includ-
ing  zero, for the state assessment or other comparable measures subcom-
ponent, the locally selected measures of student  achievement  subcompo-
nent  and  the  overall  rating categories. The process must also ensure
that it is possible for a teacher or principal to obtain each  point  in
the  scoring  ranges  prescribed by the district or board of cooperative
educational services for the other measures  of  teacher  and  principal
effectiveness  subcomponent.    SUCH  PROCESS  MUST  ALSO ENSURE THAT NO
TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL WHO RECEIVES  A  DEVELOPING  RATING  IN  ALL  THREE
SUBCOMPONENTS CAN RECEIVE AN OVERALL RATING OF INEFFECTIVE.
  S  2.  Section  3012-c of the education law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 10 to read as follows:
  10. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISIONS OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE PERSON-
NEL RECORDS OF A CLASSROOM TEACHER OR BUILDING PRINCIPAL, INCLUDING  BUT
NOT  LIMITED  TO  THE  ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS CONDUCTED
PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, COMPOSITE EFFECTIVENESS SCORES AND  ALL  INDI-
VIDUAL  SUBCOMPONENTS,  AND  THE QUALITY RATING CATEGORY SHALL BE DEEMED
CONFIDENTIAL AND SHALL NOT BE DISCLOSED, RELEASED OR  SHOWN  TO  ANYONE,
EXCEPT:
  A. WITH THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE SUBJECT TEACHER OR PRINCIPAL;
  B.  TO  THE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION  OR BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL
SERVICES THAT EMPLOYS THE  TEACHER  OR  PRINCIPAL  AND  THE  APPROPRIATE
ADMINISTRATORS DESIGNATED BY SUCH BOARD;

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

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