Relates to annual teacher and principal evaluations; provides that no school district shall be eligible for an apportionment of general support for public schools appropriated in excess of the amount apportioned such school district unless it has either adopted a plan for the annual professional performance review of its classroom teachers and building principals or has submitted documentation demonstrating that it has fully implemented the standards and procedures for conducting annual teacher and principal evaluations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9829
IN ASSEMBLY
April 12, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, GALEF, ABINANTI, BUCHWALD, JAFFEE, BRABE-
NEC, SALADINO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to annual teacher and
principal evaluations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 3012-d of the education law, as
2 added by section 2 of subpart E of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of
3 2015, is amended to read as follows:
4 11. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, no school
5 district shall be eligible for an apportionment of general support for
6 public schools from the funds appropriated for the 2015--2016 school
7 year and any year thereafter in excess of the amount apportioned to such
8 school district in the respective base year unless such school district
9 either (i) has adopted a plan for the annual professional performance
10 review of its classroom teachers and building principals in accordance
11 with the requirements of section three thousand twelve-c of this chapter
12 and the regulations of the commissioner which plan has been approved by
13 the commissioner, or (ii) has submitted documentation that has been
14 approved by the commissioner by November fifteenth, two thousand
15 fifteen, or by September first of each subsequent year, demonstrating
16 that it has fully implemented the standards and procedures for conduct-
17 ing annual teacher and principal evaluations of teachers and principals
18 in accordance with the requirements of this section and the regulations
19 issued by the commissioner. Provided further that any apportionment
20 withheld pursuant to this section shall not occur prior to April first
21 of the current year and shall not have any effect on the base year
22 calculation for use in the subsequent school year. For purposes of this
23 section, "base year" shall mean the base year as defined in paragraph b
24 of subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter,
25 and "current year" shall mean the current year as defined in paragraph a
26 of subdivision one of section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter.
27 § 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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