Bill Text: NY S08784 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the number and duties of assistant principals to be assigned to the schools in the city school district of the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S08784 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08784-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8784

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 18, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LIU  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on New York City Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the number and  duties
          of  assistant  principals  to  be  assigned to the schools in 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.  Subdivision  2  of section 2590-i of the education law is
     2  amended by adding three new paragraphs (d),  (e)  and  (f)  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (d)  An  assistant  principal  shall  be  assigned  to each elementary
     5  school.   Two assistant principals shall  be  assigned  to  each  middle
     6  school. Two assistant principals shall be assigned to each high school.
     7    (i)  For  any  elementary, middle or high school with an enrollment in
     8  excess of seven hundred and fifty pupils, an additional assistant  prin-
     9  cipal shall be assigned.
    10    (ii)  The  chancellor  shall,  after  consideration  of  the  needs of
    11  students who receive services pursuant to article  eighty-nine  of  this
    12  chapter,  assign additional assistant principals to any school as deemed
    13  appropriate to ensure the safety and proper management of the school.
    14    (iii) All assistant principals shall  be  licensed  as  such.  In  the
    15  alternative,  a  licensed  school-based  intermediate  supervisor may be
    16  substituted for a licensed assistant principal.
    17    (e) Assistant principals shall be responsible for the  safe  operation
    18  of the school on occasions when the principal is not present.
    19    (f)  Assistant  principals  may  be  required by the chancellor or the
    20  superintendent to provide or participate in training or other  forms  of
    21  staff development or to address identified areas of educational need and
    22  promote student achievement and school performance.
    23    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    24  the date on which it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15386-01-2