Bill Text: NY S05772 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Eliminates the waiver of qualification requirements for school superintendents in the school districts located in cities having a population of one million or more residents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S05772 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05772-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5772
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
June 2, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- 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 eliminating the waiver
of qualification requirements for school superintendents in the school
districts located in cities having a population of one million or more
residents
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3003 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 149 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. [The] EXCEPT IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS LOCATED IN CITIES HAVING A POPU-
5 LATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE RESIDENTS, THE commissioner, at the
6 request of a board of education or board of cooperative educational
7 services, may provide for the issuance of a certificate as superinten-
8 dent of schools to exceptionally qualified persons who do not meet all
9 of the graduate course or teaching requirements of subdivision one of
10 this section, but whose exceptional training and experience are the
11 substantial equivalent of such requirements and qualify such persons for
12 the duties of a superintendent of schools.
13 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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