Bill Text: NY A04551 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes a teacher preparation program to train and retrain teachers to prepare them for teaching assignments in areas having concentrations of low-income families; provides that the commissioner of education shall administer said program and provides the commissioner with various powers to assist him in carrying out such program such as entering into arrangements through grants or contracts with educational agencies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - enacting clause stricken [A04551 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04551-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4551
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 3, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, GANTT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a teacher
preparation program to strengthen the educational opportunities avail-
able to children in low-income areas
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 62 to
2 read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 62
4 TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM
5 SECTION 3040. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
6 3041. ESTABLISHMENT OF TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM.
7 3042. POWERS OF THE COMMISSIONER.
8 3043. COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS.
9 S 3040. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE. THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO
10 STRENGTHEN THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO CHILDREN IN AREAS
11 HAVING CONCENTRATIONS OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES AND TO ENCOURAGE COLLEGES
12 AND UNIVERSITIES TO BROADEN THEIR PROGRAMS OF TEACHER PREPARATION AND TO
13 ENCOURAGE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGEN-
14 CIES TO IMPROVE PROGRAMS OF TRAINING AND RETRAINING FOR TEACHERS, TEACH-
15 ER AIDES, AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL BY:
16 (A) ATTRACTING AND TRAINING QUALIFIED TEACHERS WHO WILL BE MADE AVAIL-
17 ABLE TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES FOR TEACHING IN SUCH AREAS;
18 (B) ATTRACTING AND TRAINING INEXPERIENCED TEACHER-INTERNS WHO WILL BE
19 MADE AVAILABLE FOR TEACHING AND INSERVICE TRAINING TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL
20 AGENCIES IN SUCH AREAS IN TEAMS LED BY AN EXPERIENCED TEACHER;
21 (C) ATTRACTING VOLUNTEERS TO SERVE AS PART-TIME TUTORS OR FULL-TIME
22 INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS IN PROGRAMS CARRIED OUT BY LOCAL EDUCATIONAL
23 AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION SERVING SUCH AREAS;
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (D) ATTRACTING AND TRAINING EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL TO PROVIDE RELEVANT
2 REMEDIAL, BASIC, AND SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL TRAINING, INCLUDING LITERACY
3 AND COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS, FOR JUVENILE DELINQUENTS, YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS,
4 AND ADULT CRIMINAL OFFENDERS; AND
5 (E) SUPPORTING DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS FOR RETRAINING EXPERIENCED
6 TEACHERS, TEACHER AIDES, AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL SERVING IN
7 LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES.
8 S 3041. ESTABLISHMENT OF TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM. THERE IS HEREBY
9 ESTABLISHED IN THE DEPARTMENT A TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM TO STRENGTH-
10 EN THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO CHILDREN IN LOW-INCOME
11 AREAS. THE TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM SHALL BE ADMINISTERED BY THE
12 COMMISSIONER.
13 S 3042. POWERS OF THE COMMISSIONER. FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING OUT
14 THIS ARTICLE, THE COMMISSIONER IS AUTHORIZED TO:
15 (A) ENTER INTO CONTRACTS OR OTHER ARRANGEMENTS WITH INSTITUTIONS OF
16 HIGHER EDUCATION OR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES UNDER WHICH THEY WILL
17 RECRUIT, SELECT, AND ENROLL IN THE TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM FOR PERI-
18 ODS OF UP TO FIVE YEARS, EXPERIENCED TEACHERS, TEACHER AIDES AND OTHER
19 EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL, PERSONS WHO HAVE A BACHELOR'S DEGREE OR ITS
20 EQUIVALENT, AND PERSONS WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED TWO YEARS OF A
21 PROGRAM FOR WHICH CREDIT IS GIVEN TOWARD A BACCALAUREATE DEGREE, AND,
22 FOR SUCH PERIODS AS THE COMMISSIONER MAY PRESCRIBE BY REGULATION,
23 PERSONS WHO VOLUNTEER TO SERVE AS PART-TIME TUTORS OR FULL-TIME INSTRUC-
24 TIONAL ASSISTANTS;
25 (B) ENTER INTO ARRANGEMENTS, THROUGH GRANTS OR CONTRACTS, WITH INSTI-
26 TUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION OR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES TO PROVIDE
27 MEMBERS OF THE TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM WITH SUCH TRAINING AS THE
28 COMMISSIONER MAY DEEM APPROPRIATE TO CARRY OUT THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTI-
29 CLE, INCLUDING NOT MORE THAN THREE MONTHS OF TRAINING FOR MEMBERS BEFORE
30 THEY UNDERTAKE THEIR TEACHING DUTIES UNDER THIS ARTICLE;
31 (C) ENTER INTO ARRANGEMENTS, INCLUDING THE PAYMENT OF THE COST OF SUCH
32 ARRANGEMENTS WITH LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES TO FURNISH TO LOCAL EDUCA-
33 TIONAL AGENCIES, FOR SERVICE DURING REGULAR OR SUMMER SESSIONS, OR BOTH,
34 IN THE SCHOOLS OF SUCH AGENCIES IN AREAS HAVING CONCENTRATIONS OF CHIL-
35 DREN FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES, TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS EACH OF
36 WHICH SHALL INCLUDE TEACHER-INTERN TEAMS LED BY EXPERIENCED TEACHERS,
37 AND MAY INCLUDE ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCED TEACHERS, TEACHER AIDES, AND
38 OTHER EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL, WHO MAY BE AFFORDED TIME BY THE LOCAL
39 EDUCATIONAL AGENCY FOR A TRAINING PROGRAM CARRIED OUT IN COOPERATION
40 WITH AN INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION;
41 (D) MAKE AVAILABLE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES
42 AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR CARRYING OUT ARRANGEMENTS
43 ENTERED INTO UNDER THIS SECTION;
44 (E) PROVIDE PLANNING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, MONITORING, DOCUMENTING,
45 DISSEMINATING, AND EVALUATION SERVICES FOR ARRANGEMENTS MADE UNDER THIS
46 SECTION; AND
47 (F) ACQUAINT QUALIFIED PERSONS OF TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDS IN
48 DISADVANTAGED AREAS AND ENCOURAGE QUALIFIED PERSONS TO APPLY TO APPRO-
49 PRIATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES OR INSTITUTIONS FOR ENROLLMENT IN THE TEACH-
50 ER PREPARATION PROGRAM.
51 S 3043. COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS. TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM MEMBERS
52 SHALL BE COMPENSATED AT A RATE TO BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER
53 COMMENSURATE WITH THEIR TEACHING EXPERIENCE, EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND
54 THE NATURE OF THEIR PARTICULAR ASSIGNMENT. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PAY
55 THE NECESSARY TRAVEL EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF THE TEACHER PREPARATION
56 PROGRAM AND THE DEPENDENTS AND NECESSARY EXPENSES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION
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1 OF THE HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND PERSONAL EFFECTS OF SUCH MEMBERS AND THEIR
2 DEPENDENTS, AND SUCH OTHER NECESSARY EXPENSES OF MEMBERS AS ARE DIRECTLY
3 RELATED TO THEIR SERVICE IN THE PROGRAM, INCLUDING READJUSTMENT ALLOW-
4 ANCES PROPORTIONATE TO SERVICE.
5 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
