What's happening
This bill requires school districts to notify others when a teacher is dismissed for proven sexual impropriety, including placing this information on the teacher's permanent record.
Why it matters
Improves information sharing. between school districts, making it harder for teachers dismissed for proven sexual impropriety to move between schools without their history being known.
Adds a legal requirement. to place the reason for dismissal on a teacher’s permanent record, increasing accountability and transparency in hiring practices.
Protects student safety. by helping schools make more informed decisions during the hiring process, potentially reducing the risk of repeat offenses.
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Who cares
School districts dismissing teachers
They would have to record a dismissal for sexual impropriety on the teacher’s permanent record and disclose the reasons to any inquiring school district statewide when the impropriety has been proven in court.
School district hiring officials
They would be entitled to learn the reasons for such a dismissal when they inquire with the teacher’s former district.
Teachers dismissed for court-proven sexual impropriety
Their dismissal information would become part of their permanent record and be disclosed to school districts that inquire.
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History
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1843
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school districts being notified when a teacher is dismissed from a school district due to sexual improprieties
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 115 to read as follows:
§ 115. Notification to school districts of a teacher's dismissal due to sexual impropriety. When a teacher has been dismissed from a school district due to a sexual impropriety and such sexual impropriety has been proven in a court of law, such information shall be placed on the teacher's permanent record and the former school district shall reveal the reasons for such dismissal to all school districts throughout the state which inquire into such teacher's dismissal.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05404-01-9
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