Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Apr 11, 2014 | referred to education |
senate Bill S7001
Sponsored By
Kenneth P. LaValle
(R) 0 Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education Committee
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor Calendar
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Delivered to Governor
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Co-Sponsors
Phil Boyle
(R) 0 Senate District
David Carlucci
(D) 0 Senate District
John A. DeFrancisco
(R, C, IP) 0 Senate District
John J. Flanagan
(R, C, IP) 0 Senate District
S7001 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Education
- Law Section:
- Education
S7001 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S7001 TITLE OF BILL: An act in relation to candidates for certificates in the classroom teaching service PURPOSE: To make changes to the current timeline for new certification requirements for teachers. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1. Provides that no teacher would be required to achieve satisfactory levels of performance on the new edTPA portion of the New York State teacher certification examinations until July 1, 2015. For candidates who have not yet received an initial certificate for teaching by April 30, 2014, these candidates would be required to instead achieve satisfactory performance levels on either the elementary or secondary Assessment of Teaching Skills-Written (ATS-W) test, in addition to the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST), the Education All Students (EAS) test and the Content Specialty Test (CST) by July 1, 2015. The bill would also provide that any candidate for a teaching certificate that has already achieved a satisfactory level of the new
S7001 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7001 I N S E N A T E April 11, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT in relation to candidates for certificates in the classroom teaching service THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. 1. No candidate for a certificate in the classroom teaching service shall be required to have achieved satisfactory levels of performance on the edTPA portion of the New York State teacher certif- icate examinations until July 1, 2015. 2. For candidates that have not received an initial certificate in the classroom teaching service by April 30, 2014, the state education department shall require that such candidate achieve satisfactory levels of performance on the elementary and secondary assessment of teaching skills-written test; academic literary skills test; educating all students test; and the content specialty test. Provided that the requirements of this subdivision shall not apply after July 1, 2015. 3. Any candidate for a certificate in the classroom teaching service that has achieved a satisfactory level of performance on the edTPA shall be deemed to have met the requirements of the elementary and secondary assessment of teaching skills-written test pursuant to subdivision two of this section. 4. The state education department is authorized and required to take all necessary actions to expeditiously establish new test dates for the elementary and secondary assessment of teaching skills-written test. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2014. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14591-04-4
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