NY State Senate Bill 2017-S3919A

Senate Bill S3919A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 31, 2018	reported and committed to finance
Feb 23, 2018	print number 3919a
Feb 23, 2018	amend and recommit to education
Jan 03, 2018	referred to education
May 23, 2017	reported and committed to finance
Jan 30, 2017	referred to education

Votes

- May 31, 2018 - Education Committee Vote
  S3919A
  
  17
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  1
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Education Committee Vote: May 31, 2018
      
      aye (17)
      
      Avella
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Gallivan
      
      Hamilton
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Mayer
      
      Peralta
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Robach
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Stavisky
      
      absent (1)
      
      Montgomery
      
      excused (1)
      
      Croci
  May 23, 2017 - Education Committee Vote
  S3919A
  
  18
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Education Committee Vote: May 23, 2017
      
      aye (18)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Avella
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Gallivan
      
      Hamilton
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Latimer
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Montgomery
      
      Peralta
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Robach
      
      Serino
      
      Seward
      
      Stavisky
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Croci

Bill Amendments

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2017-S3919 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A2363
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§1950 & 3602, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: A10003
2015-2016: S3697, A3885
2019-2020: S7818, A7122
2021-2022: S919, A5190
2023-2024: S5024, A7481

2017-S3919 - Summary

Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services.

2017-S3919 - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S3919

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the education law, in relation to
the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of
cooperative educational services

 PURPOSE :

To provide adequate funding at BOCES component school districts and
city and other non-component school districts for teachers and career
education.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

Section 1 amends Section 1950 of the Education Law about in reference
to BOCES teacher salaries in the 2016-2017 school year.

Section 2 amends Section 3602 of the Education Law related to select
foundation aid for career and technical education programs.

Section 3 is the effective date.

 JUSTIFICATION :

This bill improves resources and programming for science, technology,
engineering, and math (STEM) education and career counseling in school

districts throughout the state. New York State provides aid to school
districts to help them pay for services that they purchase from BOCES,
including teachers for instruction in career, technical and STEM
education. There is, however, a cap on teacher salaries which has not
been increased since 1991. Since then, New York has highlighted STEM
and technology as priorities for preparing students for work and
college in the 21st century. This bill updates aid to match the
state's educational priorities in both BOCES component school
districts and city school and other non-component school districts.

The expansion of Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs is
essential. For many students, CTE offers the most promising pathway to
career success. Funding and reimbursement structures, particularly
BOCES and Special Services Aids, needs improvement and expansion so
that all students may benefit from its programs. By facilitating
broader investments and public-private partnerships in these areas, we
can present an integrated career and technical curriculum to students.

As stated, the current aid formula for BOCES CTE programs has not
changed since 1990. The state only provides aid for the first $30,000
of a BOCES instructor's salary. This has the effect of reducing state
support for CTE programs and shifting the costs to local schools.
What results is the underinvestment of high-quality programs that
provide students with the skills employers demand. According to the
SED, more than 90 percent of CTE students graduate with a Regents
diploma, some with Advanced Designation. By increasing the aidable
salary for all CTE programs and increasing Special Services Aid for
the Big 5 City school districts, this bill will significantly improve
CTE services and programs to students.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

S.3697A of 2015-2016

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

To be determined

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
calculation of BOCES aid and aid for career education payable in the
2018-2019 school year and years thereafter.

2017-S3919 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3919
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  RITCHIE, CARLUCCI, GALLIVAN, ORTT, RANZENHOFER --
   read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
   the Committee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to the salaries of
   certain teachers and aides employed by boards  of  cooperative  educa-
   tional services

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 5 of section 1950 of the  educa-
 tion  law,  as amended by chapter 296 of the laws of 2016, is amended to
 read as follows:
   b. The cost of services herein referred to shall be the  amount  allo-
 cated  to  each  component  school  district by the board of cooperative
 educational  services  to  defray  expenses  of  such  board,  including
 approved  expenses from the testing of potable water systems of occupied
 school buildings under the board's jurisdiction as required pursuant  to
 section  eleven  hundred  ten of the public health law, except that that
 part of the salary paid any teacher, supervisor or other employee of the
 board of cooperative educational services which is in excess  of  thirty
 thousand  dollars shall not be such an approved expense, and except also
 that administrative and clerical expenses shall not exceed  ten  percent
 of the total expenses for purposes of this computation. PROVIDED, HOWEV-
 ER,  BEGINNING WITH EXPENSES INCURRED IN THE TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN--TWO
 THOUSAND EIGHTEEN SCHOOL YEAR AND THEREAFTER, THAT PART  OF  THE  SALARY
 PAID  TO ANY TEACHER, SUPERVISOR OR OTHER EMPLOYEE OF A BOARD OF COOPER-
 ATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES WHICH IS IN EXCESS OF THE LESSER OF THE ACTU-
 AL SALARY OR THE AVERAGE STATEWIDE SALARY FOR SUCH TEACHING,  SUPERVISO-
 RY, OR OTHER POSITION AS ESTABLISHED BY THE COMMISSIONER SHALL NOT BE AN
 APPROVED  EXPENSE, AND FURTHER PROVIDED THAT ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL
 EXPENSES SHALL NOT EXCEED TEN PERCENT OF THE TOTAL EXPENSES FOR PURPOSES
 OF THIS COMPUTATION. Any gifts, donations  or  interest  earned  by  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD07962-01-7

 S. 3919                             2
 
 board  of  cooperative educational services or on behalf of the board of
 cooperative educational services by the dormitory authority or any other
 source shall not be deducted in determining the cost of  services  allo-
 cated  to  each component school district. Any payments made to a compo-
 nent school district by the board of  cooperative  educational  services
 pursuant to subdivision eleven of section six-p of the general municipal
 law  attributable  to  an  approved cost of service computed pursuant to
 this subdivision shall be deducted from the cost of  services  allocated
 to  such  component  school  district.    The  expense of transportation
 provided by the board of cooperative educational  services  pursuant  to
 paragraph  q  of  subdivision four of this section shall be eligible for
 aid apportioned pursuant to  subdivision  seven  of  section  thirty-six
 hundred  two  of  this  chapter  and no board of cooperative educational
 services transportation expense shall be an approved  cost  of  services
 for  the  computation  of  aid  under  this  subdivision. Transportation
 expense pursuant to paragraph q of  subdivision  four  of  this  section
 shall  be  included  in the computation of the ten percent limitation on
 administrative and clerical expenses.
   § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 10 of section 3602  of  the  education
 law,  as  amended  by  section 16 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of
 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   b. Aid for career education. There shall be apportioned to  such  city
 school districts and other school districts which were not components of
 a  board of cooperative educational services in the base year for pupils
 in grades ten through twelve in attendance in career education  programs
 as  such  programs  are  defined  by  the  commissioner, subject for the
 purposes of this paragraph to the approval of the director of the  budg-
 et,  an  amount  for  each  such pupil to be computed by multiplying the
 career education aid ratio by [three thousand nine hundred dollars]  THE
 DISTRICT'S SELECTED FOUNDATION AID AS DETERMINED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
 FOUR  OF  THIS  SECTION.  Such  aid  will be payable for weighted pupils
 attending career education programs operated by the school district  and
 for  weighted pupils for whom such school district contracts with boards
 of cooperative educational services to attend career education  programs
 operated by a board of cooperative educational services. Weighted pupils
 for  the purposes of this paragraph shall mean the sum of the attendance
 of students in grades ten through twelve in career  education  sequences
 in  trade,  industrial,  technical, agricultural or health programs plus
 the product of  sixteen  hundredths  multiplied  by  the  attendance  of
 students  in  grades ten through twelve in career education sequences in
 business and marketing as defined by the  commissioner  in  regulations.
 The career education aid ratio shall be computed by subtracting from one
 the  product  obtained by multiplying fifty-nine percent by the combined
 wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be expressed as a decimal carried  to
 three places without rounding, but not less than thirty-six percent.
   Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall
 be  required  to use such amount to support career education programs in
 the current year.
   A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined
 by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year
 during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi-
 sion reduced in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current  or  a
 succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waive
 such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in
 support  of career education programs were continued at a level equal to

 S. 3919                             3
 
 or greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in  the
 preceding school year.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
 calculation of BOCES aid and aid for career  education  payable  in  the
 2018-2019 school year and years thereafter.

co-Sponsors

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2017-S3919A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A2363
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§1950 & 3602, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: A10003
2015-2016: S3697, A3885
2019-2020: S7818, A7122
2021-2022: S919, A5190
2023-2024: S5024, A7481

2017-S3919A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the salaries of certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational services.

2017-S3919A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3919A

SPONSOR: RITCHIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to the salaries of
certain teachers and aides employed by boards of cooperative educational
services

 
PURPOSE:

To provide adequate funding at BOCES component school districts and city
and other non-component school districts for teachers and career educa-
tion.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends Section 1950 of the Education Law in reference to BOCES
teacher salaries in the 2018-2019 school year.

Section 2 amends Section 3602 of the Education Law related to select

foundation aid for career and technical education programs.

Section 3 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill improves resources and programming for science, technology,
engineering, and math (STEM) education and career counseling in school
districts throughout the state. New York State provides aid to school
districts to help them pay for services that they purchase from BOCES,
including teachers for instruction in career, technical and STEM educa-
tion. There is, however, a cap on teacher salaries which has not been
increased since 1991. Since then, New York has highlighted STEM and
technology as priorities for preparing students for work and college in
the 21st century. This bill updates aid to match the state's educational
priorities in both BOCES component school districts and city school and
other non-component school districts.

The expansion of Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs is essen-
tial. For many students, CTE offers the most promising pathway to career
success. Funding and reimbursement structures, particularly BOCES and
Special Services Aids, needs improvement and expansion so that all
students may benefit from its programs. By facilitating broader invest-
ments and public-private partnerships in these areas, we can present an
integrated career and technical curriculum to students.

As stated, the current aid formula for BOCES CTE programs has not
changed since 1990. The state only provides aid for the first $30,000 of
a BOCES instructor's salary. This has the effect of reducing state
support for CTE programs and shifting the costs to local schools.  What
results is the underinvestment of high-quality programs that provide
students with the skills employers demand. According to the SED, more
than 90 percent of CTE students graduate with a Regents diploma, some
with Advanced Designation. By increasing the aidable salary for all CTE
programs and increasing Special Services Aid for the Big 5 City school
districts, this bill will significantly improve CTE services and
programs to students.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S.3697A of 2015-2016

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the calcu-
lation of BOCES aid and aid for career education payable in the
2019-2020 school year and years thereafter.

2017-S3919A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3919--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  RITCHIE, AKSHAR, CARLUCCI, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, ORTT,
   RANZENHOFER, VALESKY -- read  twice  and  ordered  printed,  and  when
   printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Education -- recommitted
   to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
   -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
   and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to the salaries of
   certain teachers and aides employed by boards  of  cooperative  educa-
   tional services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 5 of section 1950 of the  educa-
 tion  law,  as amended by chapter 296 of the laws of 2016, is amended to
 read as follows:
   b. The cost of services herein referred to shall be the  amount  allo-
 cated  to  each  component  school  district by the board of cooperative
 educational  services  to  defray  expenses  of  such  board,  including
 approved  expenses from the testing of potable water systems of occupied
 school buildings under the board's jurisdiction as required pursuant  to
 section  eleven  hundred  ten of the public health law, except that that
 part of the salary paid any teacher, supervisor or other employee of the
 board of cooperative educational services which is in excess  of  thirty
 thousand  dollars shall not be such an approved expense, and except also
 that administrative and clerical expenses shall not exceed  ten  percent
 of the total expenses for purposes of this computation. PROVIDED, HOWEV-
 ER,  BEGINNING  WITH EXPENSES INCURRED IN THE TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN--TWO
 THOUSAND NINETEEN SCHOOL YEAR AND THEREAFTER, THAT PART  OF  THE  SALARY
 PAID  TO ANY TEACHER, SUPERVISOR OR OTHER EMPLOYEE OF A BOARD OF COOPER-
 ATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES WHICH IS IN EXCESS OF THE LESSER OF THE ACTU-
 AL SALARY OR THE AVERAGE STATEWIDE SALARY FOR SUCH TEACHING,  SUPERVISO-
 RY, OR OTHER POSITION AS ESTABLISHED BY THE COMMISSIONER SHALL NOT BE AN
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD07962-02-8

 S. 3919--A                          2
 
 APPROVED  EXPENSE, AND FURTHER PROVIDED THAT ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL
 EXPENSES SHALL NOT EXCEED TEN PERCENT OF THE TOTAL EXPENSES FOR PURPOSES
 OF THIS COMPUTATION. Any gifts, donations  or  interest  earned  by  the
 board  of  cooperative educational services or on behalf of the board of
 cooperative educational services by the dormitory authority or any other
 source shall not be deducted in determining the cost of  services  allo-
 cated  to  each component school district. Any payments made to a compo-
 nent school district by the board of  cooperative  educational  services
 pursuant to subdivision eleven of section six-p of the general municipal
 law  attributable  to  an  approved cost of service computed pursuant to
 this subdivision shall be deducted from the cost of  services  allocated
 to  such  component  school  district.    The  expense of transportation
 provided by the board of cooperative educational  services  pursuant  to
 paragraph  q  of  subdivision four of this section shall be eligible for
 aid apportioned pursuant to  subdivision  seven  of  section  thirty-six
 hundred  two  of  this  chapter  and no board of cooperative educational
 services transportation expense shall be an approved  cost  of  services
 for  the  computation  of  aid  under  this  subdivision. Transportation
 expense pursuant to paragraph q of  subdivision  four  of  this  section
 shall  be  included  in the computation of the ten percent limitation on
 administrative and clerical expenses.
   § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 10 of section 3602  of  the  education
 law,  as  amended  by  section 16 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of
 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   b. Aid for career education. There shall be apportioned to  such  city
 school districts and other school districts which were not components of
 a  board of cooperative educational services in the base year for pupils
 in grades ten through twelve in attendance in career education  programs
 as  such  programs  are  defined  by  the  commissioner, subject for the
 purposes of this paragraph to the approval of the director of the  budg-
 et,  an  amount  for  each  such pupil to be computed by multiplying the
 career education aid ratio by [three thousand nine hundred dollars]  THE
 DISTRICT'S SELECTED FOUNDATION AID AS DETERMINED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
 FOUR  OF  THIS  SECTION.  Such  aid  will be payable for weighted pupils
 attending career education programs operated by the school district  and
 for  weighted pupils for whom such school district contracts with boards
 of cooperative educational services to attend career education  programs
 operated by a board of cooperative educational services. Weighted pupils
 for  the purposes of this paragraph shall mean the sum of the attendance
 of students in grades ten through twelve in career  education  sequences
 in  trade,  industrial,  technical, agricultural or health programs plus
 the product of  sixteen  hundredths  multiplied  by  the  attendance  of
 students  in  grades ten through twelve in career education sequences in
 business and marketing as defined by the  commissioner  in  regulations.
 The career education aid ratio shall be computed by subtracting from one
 the  product  obtained by multiplying fifty-nine percent by the combined
 wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be expressed as a decimal carried  to
 three places without rounding, but not less than thirty-six percent.
   Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall
 be  required  to use such amount to support career education programs in
 the current year.
   A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined
 by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year
 during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi-
 sion reduced in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current  or  a
 succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waive

 S. 3919--A                          3
 
 such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in
 support  of career education programs were continued at a level equal to
 or greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in  the
 preceding school year.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
 calculation of BOCES aid and aid for career  education  payable  in  the
 2019-2020 school year and years thereafter.

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2017-S3919 - Details

2017-S3919 - Summary

2017-S3919 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3919 - Bill Text download pdf

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2017-S3919A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S3919A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3919A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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