Senate Bill S8276

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to annual professional performance reviews and tenure

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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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2021-S8276 - Details

Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2509, 2573, 3012, 3012-d & 3014, Ed L

2021-S8276 - Summary

Relates to annual professional performance reviews and tenure; makes an exception for individuals who did not receive an annual performance review rating during the 2019-2020, 2020-2021 and the 2021-2022 school years; allows for them to receive tenure if the individual would have been qualified if they had received such performance review.

2021-S8276 - Sponsor Memo

2021-S8276 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8276
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 8, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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  annual  professional
   performance reviews and tenure
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph ii  of  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  1  of
 section 3012 of the education law, as amended by chapter 112 of the laws
 of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   ii.  Teachers  and  all  other members of the teaching staff of school
 districts, including common school  districts  and/or  school  districts
 employing  fewer  than eight teachers, other than city school districts,
 who are appointed on or after July first, two thousand fifteen, shall be
 appointed by the board of education, or the trustees  of  common  school
 districts, upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, for
 a probationary period of four years, except that in the case of a teach-
 er  who  has rendered satisfactory service as a regular substitute for a
 period of two years and, if a classroom  teacher,  has  received  annual
 professional  performance  review ratings in each of those years, or has
 rendered satisfactory service  as  a  seasonally  licensed  per  session
 teacher of swimming in day schools who has served in that capacity for a
 period  of two years and has been appointed to teach the same subject in
 day schools, on an annual salary, the teacher shall be appointed  for  a
 probationary period of two years; provided, however, that in the case of
 a  teacher  who  has been appointed on tenure in another school district
 within the state, the school district where  currently  employed,  or  a
 board  of  cooperative  educational  services, and who was not dismissed
 from such district or board as a result of charges brought  pursuant  to
 subdivision  one  of  section  three  thousand twenty-a or section three
 thousand twenty-b of this article, the teacher shall be appointed for  a
 probationary  period  of  three  years;  provided that, in the case of a
 classroom teacher, the teacher demonstrates that he or she  received  an
 annual  professional performance review rating pursuant to section three
 thousand twelve-c or section three thousand twelve-d of this chapter  in
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

co-Sponsors

2021-S8276A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2509, 2573, 3012, 3012-d & 3014, Ed L

2021-S8276A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to annual professional performance reviews and tenure; makes an exception for individuals who did not receive an annual performance review rating during the 2019-2020, 2020-2021 and the 2021-2022 school years; allows for them to receive tenure if the individual would have been qualified if they had received such performance review.

2021-S8276A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S8276A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8276--A
     Cal. No. 509
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 8, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. MAYER, KENNEDY, MANNION, SKOUFIS -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Education  -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
   and second report, ordered to a 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 annual professional
   performance reviews and tenure
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  ii  of  paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 1 of
 section 3012 of the education law, as amended by chapter 112 of the laws
 of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   ii. Teachers and all other members of the  teaching  staff  of  school
 districts,  including  common  school  districts and/or school districts
 employing fewer than eight teachers, other than city  school  districts,
 who are appointed on or after July first, two thousand fifteen, shall be
 appointed  by  the  board of education, or the trustees of common school
 districts, upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, for
 a probationary period of four years, except that in the case of a teach-
 er who has rendered satisfactory service as a regular substitute  for  a
 period  of  two  years  and, if a classroom teacher, has received annual
 professional performance review ratings in each of those years,  or  has
 rendered  satisfactory  service  as  a  seasonally  licensed per session
 teacher of swimming in day schools who has served in that capacity for a
 period of two years and has been appointed to teach the same subject  in
 day  schools,  on an annual salary, the teacher shall be appointed for a
 probationary period of two years; provided, however, that in the case of
 a teacher who has been appointed on tenure in  another  school  district
 within  the  state,  the  school district where currently employed, or a
 board of cooperative educational services, and  who  was  not  dismissed
 from  such  district or board as a result of charges brought pursuant to
 subdivision one of section three  thousand  twenty-a  or  section  three
 thousand  twenty-b of this article, the teacher shall be appointed for a
 probationary period of three years; provided that,  in  the  case  of  a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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