Directs the commissioner of education to issue guidance to school districts for developing programs to attract underrepresented candidates into the teaching profession and to identify funding available to school districts for such purposes.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2140--B
Cal. No. 287
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. LIU, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, MAY, MAYER -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Education -- reported favorably from said committee and
committed to the Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third reading,
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading -- passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly,
recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to developing grow your
own initiatives at school districts and boards of cooperative educa-
tional services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "teach-
2 ers and educators aiding the communities they call home (TEACH) act".
3 § 2. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
4 subdivision 60 to read as follows:
5 60. The commissioner, in consultation with institutions of higher
6 education, shall issue guidance for school districts and boards of coop-
7 erative educational services to use to develop grow your own initiatives
8 aimed at attracting underrepresented candidates into the teaching
9 profession. Such guidance shall include but not be limited to:
10 (a) ways to recruit underrepresented candidates, including those who
11 are current teaching assistants and current students in teacher prepara-
12 tion programs;
13 (b) initiatives aimed at creating an early recruitment pipeline begin-
14 ning in secondary school;
15 (c) how to establish partnerships between school districts, communi-
16 ty-based organizations, and institutions of higher education to encour-
17 age and support underrepresented candidates to enter and remain in the
18 teaching profession; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (d) ways to identify existing funding sources available to school
2 districts to attract and retain underrepresented candidates into the
3 teaching profession.
4 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
5 it shall have become a law.
