Assembly Bill A2472

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to the commissioner of education's ability to issue a superintendent certificate to persons seeking exceptionally qualified status in N.Y. city

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A2472 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3003, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A11724
2011-2012: A4462
2015-2016: A6652

2013-A2472 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the commissioner of education's ability to issue a superintendent certificate to persons seeking exceptionally qualified status in cities of one million or more inhabitants.

2013-A2472 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2472

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Education

AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to the commissioner of
  education's ability  to  issue  a  certificate  as  superintendent  of
  schools  to  persons  who  do  not  meet  educational  or professional
  requirements for the position of chancellor of the New York  community
  school district system

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3003  of  the  education  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  149  of  the  laws  of 1974, is amended to read as
follows:
  3. [The] A. EXCEPT FOR THE POSITION OF SUPERINTENDENT OR CHANCELLOR OF
SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN CITIES HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE  MILLION  OR  MORE
INHABITANTS, THE commissioner, at the request of a board of education or
board  of cooperative educational services, may provide for the issuance
of a certificate as superintendent of schools to exceptionally qualified
persons who do not meet all of the graduate course or teaching  require-
ments of subdivision one of this section, but whose exceptional training
and  experience  are the substantial equivalent of such requirements and
qualify such persons for the duties of a superintendent of schools.
  B.  FOR  THE  POSITION  OF  SUPERINTENDENT  OR  CHANCELLOR  OF  SCHOOL
DISTRICTS  IN CITIES HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE INHABIT-
ANTS, THE COMMISSIONER, AT THE REQUEST OF A BOARD OF EDUCATION OR  BOARD
OF  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, MAY PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A
CERTIFICATE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS TO AN APPLICANT SEEKING  EXCEP-
TIONALLY  QUALIFIED  PERSON  STATUS,  AS  DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH A OF THIS
SUBDIVISION, ONLY UPON CONCURRENT RESOLUTION BY THE SENATE AND  ASSEMBLY
OF  THE  WAIVER OF GRADUATE COURSE OR TEACHING REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH IN
SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION FOR SUCH APPLICANT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00908-01-3

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