S6387-2011 Actions

• Feb 2, 2012: REFERRED TO EDUCATION

S6387-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S6387

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the education law, in relation to funds for teacher resource
and computer training centers

PURPOSE:
The purpose of this bill is to make more equitable the funding
mechanism for the Teacher Resource and Computer Training Centers.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This bill amends provisions of law pertaining to the Teacher Resource
and Computer Training Centers by removing the statutory language
that places a cap on the amount of funds the New York City public
schools are eligible to receive.

JUSTIFICATION:
The Teacher Resource and Computer Training Centers were established
by the Legislature in 1984 to provide teachers with professional
development services that would increase their general knowledge of
current educational materials and techniques to facilitate enhanced
teacher performance. This legislation would remove the cap that
unfairly limits the distribution of these funds.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
S.2580 - 2008
S.967  - 2009
S.2068 - 2011

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

S6387-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         6387
 I N  SENATE
 February 2, 2012
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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  funds  for  teacher
 resource and computer training centers
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section  316  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  section 4-a of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2007, is
 amended to read as follows:

 8. Funds provided each school year to school districts and  boards  of
 cooperative  educational services by the commissioner to plan, establish
 and operate teacher resource and computer  training  centers  shall  not
 exceed  two  million dollars per center, except that for the city school
 district for the city of New York such [center] FUNDING LIMITATION shall
 not [exceed sixteen million eight hundred thousand dollars]  APPLY;  and
 provided  further  that each approved center shall receive not less than
 twenty thousand dollars. In any year  in  which  there  is  a  statewide
 increase  in funding for teacher resource and computer training centers,
 such  increase  shall  be  distributed  proportionately  among  existing
 centers  that  have  satisfactorily  fulfilled  the requirements of such
 centers' current grant. A portion of the increase shall be  made  avail
 able  to new applicants to establish new teacher centers, and to current
 teacher centers to develop and implement regional and statewide  teacher
 center activities.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14334-01-2

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