NY State Senate Bill 2019-S284

Senate Bill S284

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to working as a teaching assistant accruing time towards certification and ensuring equal treatment of certificate holders by schools

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Delivered to Governor
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2019-S284 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8807
Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§3006 & 3006-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:: S4065, A6141

2019-S284 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to working as a teaching assistant accruing time towards certification and ensuring equal treatment of certificate holders by schools.

2019-S284 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S284

SPONSOR: ORTT
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to working as a teaching
assistant accruing time towards certification and ensuring equal treat-
ment of certificate holders by schools regarding professional develop-
ment

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This legislation would grant a certified teacher employed as a teaching
assistant credit of no less than sixty percent towards the accrual of
maintain or receiving certification.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends Section 3006 of the education law to state that when
teaching experience is required to maintain a certification, time as a
teaching assistant shall accrue at a rate of not less than sixty

percent.

Section 2 amends section 3006-a of the education law stating that a
school district shall not deny any employee certificate holder from
professional development or continuing teacher or leader education
provided by the school district during the school day based on the indi-
vidual's area of employment. Further certificate holders shall be
provided with equal opportunity to receive professional development,
continuing teacher and leader education provided by the school district
during the school day. This section also requires school districts to
maintain records of professional development, continuing leader or
teacher education hours for all certificate holders.  Justification:
Currently many credentialed teachers are having difficult times in land-
ing full time employment as a teacher and as a result find themselves
working as teaching assistants in order to gain classroom experience and
to be employed by a school district in the hopes of landing a full time
teaching position. However, current law does not allow these individuals
to accrue teaching time for these positions. This legislation seeks to
allow credentialed teachers serving as teaching assistant to accrue time
for their next certificate at a rate of at least 60 percent.  Further
this section also requires equal opportunity and access to professional
development and continuing education that is currently not afforded to
all teachers, especially specialty area teachers as well as teaching
assistants.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S. 4065 of 2017/2018; Advanced to Third Reading

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on July next succeeding.

2019-S284 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    284
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to working as a  teaching
   assistant  accruing  time  towards  certification  and  ensuring equal
   treatment of certificate holders  by  schools  regarding  professional
   development
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 3006 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  TIME ACCRUAL FOR CERTIFICATION. IF TEACHING EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED
 BY THE COMMISSIONER TO RECEIVE OR MAINTAIN  CERTIFICATION,  THE  COMMIS-
 SIONER SHALL ALLOW FOR EXPERIENCE AS A TEACHING ASSISTANT TO ACCRUE TIME
 TOWARDS  THIS  REQUIREMENT AT THE RATE OF NO LESS THAN SIXTY PERCENT THE
 RATE OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE OR ITS EQUIVALENT.
   § 2. Section 3006-a of the education law is amended by adding two  new
 subdivisions 4 and 5 to read as follows:
   4.  NO SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL DENY ANY EMPLOYEE CERTIFICATE HOLDER FROM
 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT  OR  CONTINUING  TEACHER  OR  LEADER  EDUCATION
 PROVIDED BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DURING THE SCHOOL DAY BASED ON THE INDI-
 VIDUAL'S  AREA  OF EMPLOYMENT. ALL EMPLOYEE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS SHALL BE
 PROVIDED WITH EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE PROFESSIONAL  DEVELOPMENT  OR
 CONTINUING  TEACHER AND LEADER EDUCATION PROVIDED BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT
 DURING THE SCHOOL DAY.
   5. EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL MAINTAIN RECORDS OF PROFESSIONAL  DEVEL-
 OPMENT AND CONTINUING TEACHER OR LEADER EDUCATION HOURS FOR ALL EMPLOYEE
 CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.
   §  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.

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

                                                            LBD02634-01-9

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