Bill Text: NY S00840 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the mayoral control of the city school district of the city of New York; relates to the appointment of members of the New York city school board of education; provides four of the members of such board shall be appointed by the city council and shall include parent representatives, a member from a college or university and a member of a community district education council; provides that the board shall appoint the chancellor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION [S00840 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00840-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 840 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, COMRIE, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Educa- tion AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to mayoral control of the city school district of the city of New York The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 2590-b of the 2 education law, as amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (a) The board of education of the city school district of the city of 5 New York is hereby continued. Such board of education shall consist of 6 thirteen appointed members: one member to be appointed by each borough 7 president of the city of New York; four by the city council, one of whom 8 shall be a representative of a college or university, one of whom shall 9 be a member of parent organizations and one of whom shall be a member of 10 a community district education council; and [eight] four members to be 11 appointed by the mayor of the city of New York. The chancellor shall 12 serve as an ex-officio non-voting member of the city board. The city 13 board shall elect its own chairperson from among its voting members. All 14 thirteen appointed members shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing 15 authority and shall not be employed in any capacity by the city of New 16 York, or a subdivision thereof, or the city board. No appointed member 17 of the city board shall also be a member, officer, or employee of any 18 public corporation, authority, or commission where the mayor of the city 19 of New York has a majority of the appointments. Each borough president's 20 appointee shall be a resident of the borough for which the borough pres- 21 ident appointing him or her was elected and shall be the parent of a 22 child attending a public school within the city school district of the 23 city of New York. Each mayoral appointee shall be a resident of the 24 city and [two] one shall be [parents] a parent of a child attending a EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02875-01-9S. 840 2 1 public school within the city district. All parent members shall be 2 eligible to continue to serve on the city board for two years following 3 the conclusion of their child's attendance at a public school within the 4 city district. Any vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the appro- 5 priate appointing authority within ninety days of such vacancy. Notwith- 6 standing any provision of local law, the members of the board shall not 7 have staff, offices, or vehicles assigned to them or receive compen- 8 sation for their services, but shall be reimbursed for the actual and 9 necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties. 10 § 2. The opening paragraph of section 2590-h of the education law, as 11 amended by chapter 345 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as 12 follows: 13 The office of chancellor of the city district is hereby continued. 14 Such chancellor shall serve at the pleasure of and be employed by the 15 [mayor] city board of the city of New York by contract. The length of 16 such contract shall not exceed by more than two years the term of office 17 of the [mayor] city board authorizing such contract. The chancellor 18 shall receive a salary to be fixed by the [mayor] city board within the 19 budgetary allocation therefor. He or she shall exercise all his or her 20 powers and duties in a manner not inconsistent with the city-wide educa- 21 tional policies of the city board. The chancellor shall have the follow- 22 ing powers and duties as the superintendent of schools and chief execu- 23 tive officer for the city district, which the chancellor shall exercise 24 to promote an equal educational opportunity for all students in the 25 schools of the city district, promote fiscal and educational equity, 26 increase student achievement and school performance and encourage local 27 school-based innovation, including the power and duty to: 28 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 29 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision 30 1 of section 2590-b and the opening paragraph of section 2590-h of the 31 education law made by sections one and two of this act shall not affect 32 the expiration of such provisions and shall be deemed to expire there- 33 with.
