Bill Text: NY A06762 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Makes certain technical amendments to provisions granting the commissioner of education and education department additional authority over the Roosevelt union free school district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-05 - enacting clause stricken [A06762 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06762-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6762
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 17, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Education
       AN ACT to amend chapter 33 of the laws of 2002, relating to granting the
         commissioner  of  education  and  the  education department additional
         authority over the Roosevelt union free school district,  in  relation
         to making certain technical amendments thereto
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 3 of chapter 33 of the laws of  2002,  relating  to
    2  granting  the  commissioner  of  education  and the education department
    3  additional authority over the Roosevelt union free school  district,  is
    4  amended to read as follows:
    5    S  3.  Additional authority of commissioner of education. 1.  Notwith-
    6  standing any other provision of law, rule, or regulation to the  contra-
    7  ry,  the  commissioner  of education shall have the following powers, in
    8  addition to those currently granted the commissioner under the education
    9  law, and may delegate such powers except where the  provisions  of  this
   10  act  specifically  require  the commissioner to exercise such powers and
   11  duties:
   12    (a) To appoint and supervise the  superintendent  of  schools  of  the
   13  Roosevelt  union  free school district, and to remove the superintendent
   14  in accordance with the terms  and  procedures  in  the  superintendent's
   15  contract,  as  if  such removal were by the board of education, provided
   16  that the power to appoint and remove the  superintendent  shall  not  be
   17  delegated to any other person;
   18    (b)  To  disapprove appointments of assistant or associate superinten-
   19  dents of schools, building principals and other school  administers  and
   20  supervisors, including tenure appointments; and
   21    (c)  To  exercise  fiscal control over the Roosevelt union free school
   22  district in accordance with section four of this act.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 6762                             2
    1    2. The commissioner of education shall have the  additional  authority
    2  outlined  in  this section until June 30, [2011. Provided, however, that
    3  if the commissioner of education determines  that  the  Roosevelt  union
    4  free  school  district  has  not  demonstrated sufficient improvement to
    5  warrant  termination  of  the  additional authority, the commissioner of
    6  education shall be authorized to continue  to  exercise  such  authority
    7  until June 30, 2013] 2016.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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