New York Assembly Bill A03088 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3088 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 2, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, COLTON, COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school session days The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 3604 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 605 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 8. No school shall be in session on a Saturday or a legal holiday, 5 except general election day, Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birth- 6 day, and except that driver education classes may be conducted on a 7 Saturday. No school located in a city with a population of one million 8 or more shall be in session on the day of a primary election or general 9 election. A deficiency not exceeding four days during any school year 10 caused by teachers' attendance upon conferences held by superintendents 11 of schools of city school districts or other school districts employing 12 superintendents of schools shall be excused by the commissioner, 13 notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the contra- 14 ry, a school district may elect to schedule such conference days in the 15 last two weeks of August, subject to collective bargaining requirements 16 pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law, and such days 17 shall be counted towards the required one hundred eighty days of 18 session, provided however, that such scheduling shall not alter the 19 obligation of the school district to provide transportation to students 20 in non-public elementary and secondary schools or charter schools. At 21 least two such conference days during such school year shall be dedi- 22 cated to staff attendance upon conferences providing staff development 23 relating to implementation of the new high learning standards and 24 assessments, as adopted by the board of regents. Notwithstanding any 25 other provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, school 26 districts may elect to use one or more of such allowable conference days EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06431-01-3 
 A. 3088 2 1 in units of not less than one hour each to provide staff development 2 activities relating to implementation of the new high learning standards 3 and assessments. A district making such election may provide such staff 4 development on any day during which sessions are allowed and apply such 5 units to satisfy a deficiency in the length of one or more daily 6 sessions of instruction for pupils as specified in regulations of the 7 commissioner. The commissioner shall assure that such conference days 8 include appropriate school violence prevention and intervention train- 9 ing, and may require that up to one such conference day be dedicated for 10 such purpose. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.