STATE OF NEW YORK
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8108--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 30, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE, McDONOUGH, JAFFEE, PELLEGRINO -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to tenure in certain
school districts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph ii of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of
2 section 3012 of the education law, as amended by section 4 of subpart D
3 of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 ii. Principals, administrators, supervisors and all other members of
6 the supervising staff of school districts, including common school
7 districts and/or school districts employing fewer than eight teachers,
8 other than city school districts, who are appointed on or after July
9 first, two thousand fifteen, shall be appointed by the board of educa-
10 tion, or the trustees of a common school district, upon the recommenda-
11 tion of the superintendent of schools for a probationary period of four
12 years; provided however that in the case of a principal, administrator,
13 supervisor, or other member of the supervising staff who has been
14 appointed on tenure in another school district within the state, the
15 school district where currently employed, or a board of cooperative
16 educational services, and who was not dismissed from such district or
17 board as a result of charges brought pursuant to subdivision one of
18 section three thousand twenty-a or section three thousand twenty-b of
19 this article, the principal, administrator, supervisor or other member
20 of the supervising staff shall be appointed for a probationary period of
21 three years. The service of a person appointed to any of such positions
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 may be discontinued at any time during the probationary period on the
2 recommendation of the superintendent of schools, by a majority vote of
3 the board of education or the trustees of a common school district.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
