Requires adequate training in the Heimlich maneuver and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), by an institution or provider approved by the state education department, as a condition of certification as a school teacher. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes a procedure for schools to implement corrective action plans upon notification of a violation. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Provides that the board of education for the city of New York shall designate the first two days of Passover and Good Friday as school holidays. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: EDUCATION

Requires school districts to maintain libraries in elementary and secondary schools and employ certified school library media specialists; provides for a waiver of such requirement upon showing of financial hardship or adequate library access. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: EDUCATION

Provides for an additional apportionment of state monies to nonpublic schools for the cost of asbestos inspections for school years beginning on and after July 1, 2011. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: EDUCATION

Seeks to open accessibility for academically qualified students who are bona fide residents of the state of New York to obtain reserved seats at minority institutions of higher learning; authorizes commissioner of education to contract with the University of Padua, Padua, Italy, the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland, St. George's University School of Medicine, Grenada, and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, the City University of New York Medical School, for the purpose of expanding opportunities for New York state residents to study medicine. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Requires school districts in a city with one million or more to investigate and report on the status of PCB's in school buildings; report to be submitted to the commissioner by January 1, next succeeding the close of the school year in which the inspection was conducted with all buildings being inspected by January 1, 2014. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: EDUCATION

Requires that no charter school employee shall earn a salary or remuneration greater than the salary or remuneration of the chancellor of the city school district of the city of New York. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: EDUCATION

Caps the salaries of administrators as reported by the commissioner of education pursuant to paragraph n of subdivision 1 of section 3602 of the education law in the year that an employment contract or other agreement for an administrator in such district or districts is entered into, renewed or amended. / Sponsor: FUSCHILLO Committee: EDUCATION

Sponsor: Losquadro Committee: EDUCATION

Requires fire and library district budget votes to occur on the same day as the school district election. / Sponsor: ZELDIN Committee: EDUCATION

Relates to tuition and state operating support of the state university of New York. / Sponsor: SEWARD Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Imposes certain conditions on the approval of a charter school application for the conversion of an existing public school to a charter school where such school has demonstrated a practice or pattern of violations of the civil service law relating to improper employer practices. / Sponsor: MCDONALD Committee: EDUCATION

Authorizes the trustees of the state university to permit persons sixty years of age or over to take courses on a space available basis given therein for credit or without examination, without tuition; such eligible persons may take up to nine hours of courses for credit without tuition. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Relates to the commissioner of education's ability to issue a superintendent certificate to persons seeking exceptionally qualified status in cities of one million or more inhabitants. / Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: EDUCATION

Requires the state university trustees to report to the governor and the legislature concerning the steps taken to establish a process by which decisions are made to eliminate or reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university system. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Provides that certain payments by a board of cooperative educational services for construction or rental of facilities shall be disregarded from the calculation of total spending for the purposes of adopting contingency budgets. / Sponsor: RITCHIE Committee: EDUCATION

Expands the definition of the practice of podiatry to include conditions of the ankle and all soft tissues structures of the leg below the knee anatomically affecting the foot and ankle; establishes podiatrists licensed prior to the effective date of this act need to be certified to operate on the ankle; provides for the conducting of office-based surgery by podiatrists; directs the department of health to study the feasibility of a podiatrist profiling program; authorizes the calling of a physician as an expert witness in a podiatric medical malpractice cause of action. / Sponsor: ALESI Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Authorizes the commissioner of education to participate in an interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children and to establish requirements to remove barriers imposed on children who are displaced due to a parent's military deployment or service. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: EDUCATION

Requires each school district to include the percentage of its budget spent on instructional expenses in its school district report card. / Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee: EDUCATION