What's happening
This bill requires school districts that cut teaching positions to also proportionally reduce administrative costs in their budgets.
Why it matters
Aims to ensure shared sacrifice during budget cuts. By requiring proportional administrative cost reductions when teaching positions are cut, the bill seeks to prevent school districts from disproportionately protecting administrative budgets while reducing classroom staff.
Could affect class size and school services. Since teaching positions directly impact students, this measure may prompt districts to consider alternatives to teacher layoffs, knowing that administrative costs must also be trimmed if instructional staff is reduced.
Increases transparency and accountability. The law mandates explicit, proportional reductions, potentially making budget decisions more transparent and holding school boards accountable for fair distribution of cuts across all areas of a district's spending.
May impact district leadership and support functions. Administrators and support staff could face job losses or salary reductions if teaching positions are eliminated, possibly affecting non-instructional services, district management, or compliance capabilities.
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Cut School Admin with Teacher Cuts
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Sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Held for consideration in education
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3261
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. RAIA, COLTON, McDONOUGH, LALOR, FINCH -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. BLANKENBUSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the governing body of each school district, which eliminates teaching positions for any school year, to decrease a proportional amount of administrative costs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 1527-a to read as follows:
§ 1527-a. School budget reductions. During the consideration and adoption of the proposed school district budget for any school year in which there is the proposed elimination of any teaching position or a decrease in salary or costs associated with such positions, the governing body of the school district shall make a proportional decrease in the amount of funding allocated to administrative costs including cost associated with positions and salaries of administrative staff in such proposed budget.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided however, that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06869-01-7
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