File #: Int 1367-2016    Version: * Name: Requiring DOE to report the names of the schools to which teachers placed in the Absent Teacher Reserve have been assigned.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Education
On agenda: 11/16/2016
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to report the names of the schools to which teachers placed in the Absent Teacher Reserve have been assigned
Sponsors: Rosie Mendez
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Education to report the names of the schools to which teachers placed in the Absent Teacher Reserve have been assigned.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1367, 2. Int. No. 1367, 3. November 16, 2016 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-16-16

Int. No. 1367

 

By Council Member Mendez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to report the names of the schools to which teachers placed in the Absent Teacher Reserve have been assigned

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new Chapter 11 to title 21-A to read as follows:

CHAPTER 11

abesent teacher reserve school assignment

§21-977 a. Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the term “absent teacher reserve (ATR)” means teachers whose jobs have been eliminated due to school closure, downsizing, or after disciplinary hearings and who remain available for teaching.

b. Every year on May 1, beginning with May 1, 2017, the department shall submit to the speaker of the council, post to its website and make available to students and parents, an annual report indicating the names of the schools to which teachers from the ATR have been assigned. Such report shall include, but not be limited to:

1. The name of the former school where the teacher was assigned;

2. The reason for placement in the ATR;

3. The length of time spent in the ATR; and

4. The name of the school to which the teacher was reassigned.

c. All information required by this section shall be aggregated citywide, as well as disaggregated by borough, council district, community school district, and school.

d. No information that is otherwise required to be reported pursuant to this section shall be reported in a manner that would violate any applicable provision of federal, state or local law or that would interfere with law enforcement investigations or otherwise conflict with the interests of law enforcement.

§2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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