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Senate Bill S5519

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting school districts from requiring annual professional performance reviews of classroom teachers and building principals during the 2020-2021 school year

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2021-S5519 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A991
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A10922

2021-S5519 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits school districts from requiring annual performance reviews of classroom teachers and building principals during the 2020-2021 school year and ensures that funds for the general support of public schools for which a school district is otherwise entitled shall not be withheld; a board of education or the trustees of a common school district may, upon agreement, continue to appoint on tenure classroom teachers and building principals notwithstanding that their annual professional performance review for the 2020-2021 school year has not been completed.

2021-S5519 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S5519 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5519
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 9, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to prohibit school districts from requiring  annual  professional
   performance  reviews  of  classroom  teachers  and building principals
   during the 2020-2021 school year; and providing for the repeal of such
   provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section   1.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,  school
 districts shall not be required to complete annual professional perform-
 ance reviews of classroom teachers and building  principals  during  the
 2020-2021  school  year  due  to  the  state disaster emergency declared
 pursuant to executive order 202 of 2020 and any apportionment  of  funds
 for the general support of public schools for which a school district is
 otherwise  entitled  shall  not be withheld due to a school district not
 submitting documentation to the commissioner of education  demonstrating
 that  the school district has fully implemented the standards and proce-
 dures for conducting annual teacher and principal evaluations of  teach-
 ers and principals in accordance with the requirements of section 3012-d
 of  the  education law and the regulations issued by the commissioner of
 education.
   § 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a board of  education
 or  the  trustees of a common school district, only upon specific agree-
 ment, may appoint on tenure those classroom teachers and building  prin-
 cipals recommended by the superintendent of schools who are in the final
 year  of  the  probationary period, have received the previous requisite
 annual professional  performance  review  ratings  pursuant  to  section
 3012-d  of  the  education  law  and would have been in their discretion
 qualified  for  appointment  on  tenure  based  upon  past  performance,
 notwithstanding  that  their  annual professional performance review had
 not been completed and they had not received the necessary effectiveness
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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