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Assembly Bill A5700

2013-2014 Legislative Session

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

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2013-A5700 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3012-c, rpld & add sub 10, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A10452

2013-A5700 (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.

2013-A5700 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5700

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 6, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BRENNAN, MAISEL, GLICK, ROSENTHAL, JACOBS, CRES-
  PO, LAVINE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, MILLMAN,  TITONE,
  WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee 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; and to repeal
  subdivision 10 of section 3012-c of the education law relating thereto

  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. Subdivision 10 of section 3012-c of the education law is REPEALED
and a new subdivision 10 is added 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09467-01-3

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