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New York Education Law Section 215-c - Promoting Cost-effectiveness In Public Elementary And Secondary Schools.

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    § 215-c.  Promoting  cost-effectiveness  in  public  elementary  and
  secondary schools.  1. Definitions. For the purposes  of  this  section,
  the following terms shall have the following meanings:
    (a)  "cost-effectiveness"  shall  mean  one  or  more  measures of the
  efficient  use  of  school  district  resources   relative   to   school
  performance   in   accordance   with  state  educational  standards,  as
  determined by the department.
    (b) "cost-effective practices" shall mean those practices  which  most
  efficiently use limited resources to produce a particular outcome or set
  of outcomes in accordance with state educational standards.
    (c) "board" shall mean the board of regents of the state of New York.
    2.  The  board and the commissioner shall wherever practicable promote
  cost-effectiveness and cost-effective practices in the public elementary
  and secondary schools and boards of cooperative educational services  of
  the  state.  As  part of the effort pursuant to this section, by January
  first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight and  periodically  thereafter,  the
  commissioner  shall  (a) identify current structures, policies, laws and
  regulations  which  hinder  cost-effectiveness  in  schools  and  school
  districts;  (b)  identify  cost-effective districts by determining which
  schools or school districts have demonstrated significant achievement or
  improvement relative to resource allocation in  such  areas  as  student
  performance,  instruction,  management,  business  administration, early
  childhood education and such other areas as the board deems appropriate;
  (c) identify cost-effective action,  policies,  practices  and  programs
  which  may be successfully replicated in other school districts; and (d)
  recommend or, to the extent feasible,  develop  specific  cost-effective
  ways  in  which  to encourage, recognize and reward academic improvement
  and success in school  districts,  and  remove  existing  penalties  and
  fiscal disincentives to such improvement or success.
    3. The commissioner shall consult with school district administrators,
  district  superintendents  and  superintendents  of  schools,  teachers,
  school board members, parents, students, non-pedagogical school  support
  personnel,  representatives  from  post-secondary institutions and other
  pertinent groups and individuals in determining cost-effective  programs
  pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
    4.  The  commissioner shall disseminate information to school district
  administrators, school board members and other interested parties on how
  cost-effective practices can be used and applied  in  school  districts,
  individual  schools  and the classroom. Such information shall include a
  summary of exemplary cost-effective  practices  among  school  districts
  receiving  apportionments pursuant to subparagraph one of paragraph h of
  subdivision fourteen of section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter.

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