New York Education Law Article 61 - TEACHERS AND SUPERVISORY AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

• 3001 - Qualifications of Teachers.
  * No person shall be employed or authorized to teach in the public schools of the state who is: 1. Under the age of eighteen...
• 3001-a - Temporary Teaching Permit, Person Not a Citizen.
  A person, not a citizen, who files with the department satisfactory proof that he has filed with the attorney general of the United States a...
• 3001-b - First Aid Instruction Mandatory for Coaches of Extra-Class Public School Athletic Activities.
  1. On and after the effective date of this section, in addition to any provision of law or rule or regulation of the department related...
• 3001-c - First Aid Instruction Mandatory for Coaches of High School Extra-Class Nonpublic School Athletic Activities.
  1. On and after the effective date of this section, it shall be required of coaches of high school extra-class athletic activities in a nonpublic...
• 3001-d - Criminal History Record Checks and Conditional Appointments; Nonpublic and Private Schools.
  1. a. "Employee" shall mean any prospective employee of a nonpublic or private elementary or secondary school which requires the fingerprinting of prospective employees pursuant...
• 3002 - Oath to Support Federal and State Constitutions.
  It shall be unlawful for any citizen of the United States to serve as teacher, instructor or professor in any school or institution in the...
• 3003 - Qualifications of Superintendents.
  1. No person except one in possession of a valid superintendent's certificate prior to July first, nineteen hundred seventy-one shall hereafter be eligible to the...
• 3004 - Regulations Governing Certification of Teachers.
  1. The commissioner shall prescribe, subject to approval by the regents, regulations governing the examination and certification of teachers employed in all public schools of...
• 3004-a - National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Grant Program.
  1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the commissioner shall establish the Albert Shanker national board for professional teaching standards certification grant program, to be...
• 3004-b - Special Procedures for Certification.
  * 1. Criminal history records search. Upon receipt of an application for certification as a superintendent of schools, teacher, administrator or supervisor, teaching assistant or...
• 3004-c - Denial of Application for Certification.
  When the commissioner determines that a certification should be denied, the applicant shall be afforded notice and the right to be heard and offer proof...
• 3005 - Leave of Absence to Teachers for Teaching in Foreign Countries, Other States and Territories and Other School Districts.
  The trustee, trustees or board of education of any school district may permit any teacher having had at least five years service in the school...
• 3005-a - Leave of Absence for Teaching Purposes.
  In a city of one million or more, a board of education may permit any teacher to apply for and receive a leave of absence...
• 3005-b - Leave of Absence for Personal Illness.
  The school authorities of each school district outside of a city having a population in excess of one million shall allow each teacher employed by...
• 3006 - Commissioner of Education to Issue Certificates.
  Types of certificates. The commissioner of education may issue: 1. a. A life state certificate upon examinations only which shall entitle its holder to teach...
• 3006-a - Registration and Continuing Teacher and Leader Education Requirements for Holders of Professional Certificates in the Classroom Teaching Service, Holders of Level III Teaching Assistant Certificates, Holders of Professional Certificates in the Educational Leadership Service.
  1. a. Commencing with the two thousand sixteen--two thousand seventeen school year, each holder of a professional certificate in the classroom teaching service, holder of...
• 3007 - Endorsement of Foreign Certificates and Diplomas.
  The commissioner of education may in his discretion endorse: 1. A diploma issued by a normal school or teachers college of another state. 2. A...
• 3008 - Certification of Teachers by Local Authorities.
  A district superintendent, a city superintendent of schools or such other authority of a city school district as may be designated by law may issue...
• 3009 - Unqualified Teachers Shall Not Be Paid From School Moneys.
  1. No part of the school moneys apportioned to a district shall be applied to the payment of the salary of an unqualified teacher, nor...
• 3010 - Penalty for Payment of Unqualified Teacher.
  Any trustee or member of a board of education who applies, or directs, or consents to the application of, any district money to the payment...
• 3011 - Contract With Teacher.
  1. Except as otherwise provided in sections twenty-five hundred twenty-three, three thousand twelve and three thousand thirteen, all trustees of school districts or boards of...
• 3012 - Tenure: Certain School Districts.
  1. (a) i. Teachers and all other members of the teaching staff of school districts, including common school districts and/or school districts employing fewer than...
• 3012-a - Elementary Tenure Area.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and except in cities having a population of one million or more, elementary tenure area shall...
• 3012-c - Annual Professional Performance Review of Classroom Teachers and Building Principals.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the annual professional performance reviews of all classroom teachers and building principals...
• 3012-d - Annual Teacher and Principal Evaluations.
  1. General provisions. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the annual teacher and principal evaluations (hereinafter, evaluations) implemented by...
• 3013 - Abolition of Office or Position.
  1. If a trustee, board of trustees, board of education or board of cooperative educational services abolishes an office or position and creates another office...
• 3014 - Tenure: Boards of Cooperative Educational Services.
  1. (a) Administrative assistants, supervisors, teachers and all other members of the teaching and supervising staff of the board of cooperative educational services appointed prior...
• 3014-a - Teachers' Rights As a Result of a Board or Boards of Cooperative Educational Services Taking Over a Program Formerly Operated by a School District or
  districts or by a county vocational education and extension board. 1. In any case in which a board or boards of cooperative educational services duly...
• 3014-b - Teachers' Rights As a Result of a School District Taking Over a Program Formerly Operated by a Board of Cooperative Educational Services.
  1. In any case in which a school district duly takes over the operation of a program formerly provided by a board of cooperative educational...
• 3014-c - Teachers' Rights As a Result of a School District Taking Back Tuition Students.
  1. As used in this section, a "sending district" shall mean a school district which previously sent students to another school district on a tuition...
• 3014-d - Teachers' Rights As a Result of a School District Sending Students to Another District on a Tuition Basis Pursuant to Section Two Thousand Forty of Th
  3014-d. Teachers' rights as a result of a school district sending students to another district on a tuition basis pursuant to section two thousand forty...
• 3015 - Teacher's Salary When Payable.
  1. In school districts employing fewer than eight teachers, the salary of any teacher so employed shall be due and payable at least as often...
• 3016 - Contract When Teacher is Related to Trustee or Member of Board of Education.
  1. No person who is related to any trustee of a common school district by blood or marriage shall be employed in such district as...
• 3017 - Individual Liability of Trustees.
  Any person employed in disregard of section three thousand eleven or of section three thousand sixteen shall have no claim for wages against the district,...
• 3018 - Revocation of Certificate by District Superintendent.
  A district superintendent shall examine any charge affecting the moral character of any teacher within his district, first giving such teacher reasonable notice of the...
• 3019 - Penalty for Teacher's Failure to Complete Contract.
  Any failure on the part of a teacher to complete an agreement to teach a term of school without good reason therefor shall be deemed...
• 3019-a - Notice of Termination of Service by Teachers.
  A teacher who desires to terminate his services to a school district at any time, shall file a written notice thereof with the school authorities...
• 3020 - Discipline of Teachers.
  1. No person enjoying the benefits of tenure shall be disciplined or removed during a term of employment except for just cause and in accordance...
• 3020-a - Disciplinary Procedures and Penalties.
  1. Filing of charges. All charges against a person enjoying the benefits of tenure as provided in subdivision three of section eleven hundred two, and...
• 3020-b - Streamlined Removal Procedures for Teachers Rated Ineffective.
  1. Applicability. This section shall apply to classroom teachers and building principals who receive two or more consecutive annual ineffective ratings pursuant to annual professional...
• 3021 - Removal of Superintendents, Teachers and Employees for Treasonable or Seditious Acts or Utterances.
  A person employed as superintendent of schools, teacher or employee in the public schools, in any city or school district of the state, shall be...
• 3022 - Elimination of Subversive Persons From the Public School System.
  1. The board of regents shall adopt, promulgate, and enforce rules and regulations for the disqualification or removal of superintendents of schools, teachers or employees...
• 3023 - Liability of a Board of Education, Trustee, Trustees or Board of Cooperative Educational Services.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, special or local, or the limitation contained in the provisions of any city charter, it shall be the...
• 3024 - Teachers Responsible for Record Books.
  School lists and accounts of attendance shall be kept and prepared and entries shall be made in regards thereto, in such manner, as shall be...
• 3025 - Verification of School Register.
  1. Each teacher, or other school district employee as may be designated by the commissioner of education under section three thousand twenty-four of this chapter,...
• 3026 - Discriminations Based on Sex Prohibited.
  There shall be no discrimination in the determination of the amount to be paid or the payments to be made to persons employed as teachers...
• 3027 - Discrimination Based on Age Prohibited.
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no board of education in any city, union free, common or central school district in this state...
• 3028 - Liability of School District for Cost and Attorney's Fees of Action Against, or Prosecutions Of, Teachers, Members of Supervisory and Administrative S
  3028. Liability of school district for cost and attorney's fees of action against, or prosecutions of, teachers, members of supervisory and administrative staff or employees,...
• 3028-a - Students Under Twenty-One Years of Age Suspected of Alcohol Abuse or Narcotic Addiction.
  Any teacher, school administrator, school guidance counselor, school psychologist, school drug counselor, school nurse, supervisor of attendance, attendance teacher or attendance officer having reasonable cause...
• 3028-b - Notification of Teachers' Duty to Provide Information and Immunity From Liability.
  Each school shall annually provide to each teacher and all other school officials a written explanation concerning the reporting of pupil drug abuse, child abuse,...
• 3028-c - Protection of School Employees Who Report Acts of Violence and Weapons Possession.
  Any school employee having reasonable cause to suspect that a person has committed an act of violence while in or on school property, or having...
• 3028-d - Protection of School Employees Who Report Information Regarding Illegal or Inappropriate Financial Practices.
  Any employee of a school district, board of cooperative educational services, or charter school having reasonable cause to suspect that the fiscal practices or actions...
• 3029 - Hours of Continuous Duty for Full Time Teachers.
  Except in a city having a population of one million or more persons the school authorities of any school district employing two or more teachers...
• 3029-a - Silent Meditation in Public Schools.
  1. In each public school classroom, the teacher in charge may, or if so authorized or directed by the board of education by which he...
• 3030 - Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel.
  1. The interstate agreement on qualifications of educational personnel is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all jurisdictions legally joining therein in the...
• 3031 - Procedure When Tenure Not to Be Granted At Conclusion of Probationary Period or When Services to Be Discontinued.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter: (a) boards of education, trustees of common school districts and boards of cooperative educational services shall review all...
• 3032 - Teacher Summer Business Training and Employment Program; and Employer Specific Skill Training Grant Program.
  1. Definitions. (a) "Regions" for the purposes of this section means regions as established by the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of the vocational education...
• 3033 - New York State Mentor Teacher-Internship Program.
  1. Boards of education and boards of cooperative educational services are hereby authorized to participate in the New York state mentor teacher-internship program in accordance...
• 3034 - Teacher Career Recruitment Clearinghouse.
  1. The department, in consultation with representatives of teacher organizations, boards of education, school administrators, institutions of higher education and the armed forces of the...
• 3035 - Duties of Commissioner; Submission of Fingerprints.
  1. The commissioner shall submit to the division of criminal justice services two sets of fingerprints of prospective employees as defined in subdivision three of...
• 3036 - Coursework for Reporting Child Abuse and Maltreatment for Those With Coaching Licenses or Coaching Certificates.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner shall prescribe regulations requiring that all persons currently holding a temporary coaching license or a professional...
• 3037 - Grants for Hiring Teachers.
  1. For purposes of this section, the following term shall have the following meaning: "Eligible teacher" shall mean an individual that: (a) is certified to...

Last modified: February 3, 2019