NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8128
SPONSOR: Jackson TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to funds for teacher
resource and computer training centers
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Removes the cap on funds for teacher resources and computer training
centers for city school districts for the city of New York.
SUMMARY OF PROVISION:
Section 1: amends subdivision 8 of section 316 the Education Law, as it
relates to the Teacher Resource and Computer Training Centers, by remov-
ing the statutory language to remove the cap on the amount of funds
NewYork City public schools are eligible to receive.
Section 2: sets effective date
JUSTIFICATION:
The Teacher Resource and Computer Training Centers were established by
the Legislature in 1984 to provide teachers with professional develop-
meat services that would increase their general knowledge of current
educational materials and techniques to facilitate enhanced teacher
performance. This legislation would remove the cap that unfairly limits
the distribution of these funds.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
1999-2011: Sponsored by Senator Krueger
2012: S6387 Rivera / No Same As
2013-2014: S1041 Rivera / No Same As
2015-2016: S1427 Rivera / A7365 Pichardo
2017-2018: S160 Rivera / A5940 Pichardo
2019-2020: S471 Rivera / A1825 Pichardo
2021-2022: S2547 Rivera / No Same As
2023-2024: S3453 Rivera / No Same As
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8128
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 1, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to funds for teacher
resource and computer training centers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 316 of the education law, as
2 amended by section 4-a of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2007, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 8. Funds provided each school year to school districts and boards of
5 cooperative educational services by the commissioner to plan, establish
6 and operate teacher resource and computer training centers shall not
7 exceed two million dollars per center, except that for the city school
8 district for the city of New York such [center] funding limitation shall
9 not [exceed sixteen million eight hundred thousand dollars] apply; and
10 provided further that each approved center shall receive not less than
11 twenty thousand dollars. In any year in which there is a statewide
12 increase in funding for teacher resource and computer training centers,
13 such increase shall be distributed proportionately among existing
14 centers that have satisfactorily fulfilled the requirements of such
15 centers' current grant. A portion of the increase shall be made avail-
16 able to new applicants to establish new teacher centers, and to current
17 teacher centers to develop and implement regional and statewide teacher
18 center activities.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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