New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT › Chapter II - Regulations of the Commissioner › Subchapter E - Elementary and Secondary Education › Part 100 - Elementary and Secondary Education School Program › Section 100.11 - Participation of parents and teachers in school-based planning and shared decisionmaking

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
				  Purpose. The purpose of school-based planning and shared decision making shall
				  be to improve the educational performance of all students in the school,
				  regardless of such factors as socioeconomic status, race, sex, language
				  background, or disability.
(b) By
				  February 1, 1994, each public school district board of education and each board
				  of cooperative educational services (BOCES) shall develop and adopt a district
				  plan for the participation by teachers and parents with administrators and
				  school board members in school-based planning and shared decisionmaking. Such
				  district plan shall be developed in collaboration with a committee composed of
				  the superintendent of schools, administrators selected by the district's
				  administrative bargaining organization(s), teachers selected by the
				  teachers'collective bargaining organization(s), and parents (not employed by
				  the district or a collective bargaining organization representing teachers or
				  administrators in the district) selected by school-related parent
				  organizations, provided that those portions of the district plan that provide
				  for participation of teachers or administrators in school-based planning and
				  shared decisionmaking may be developed through collective negotiations between
				  the board of education or BOCES and local collective bargaining organizations
				  representing administrators and teachers. In the City School District of the
				  City of New York, the superintendent of each community school district, of each
				  district that reports directly to the chancellor and of each high school
				  superintendency shall develop such district plan in collaboration with a
				  committee composed of administrators selected by the district's administrative
				  bargaining organization(s), teachers selected by the teachers' collective
				  bargaining organization(s), and parents (not employed by the district or a
				  collective bargaining organization representing teachers or administrators in
				  the district) selected by school-related parent organizations. Members of
				  community school boards may be members of such committees. For the purpose of
				  this subdivision, school-related parent organization means a nonprofit
				  organization of parents of children attending the schools of the school
				  district whose purposes include the promotion of parental involvement in public
				  education and that is chartered or incorporated under the laws of New York, or
				  is affiliated with a statewide or regional parent organization that is so
				  chartered or incorporated or is an unincorporated association authorized to do
				  business under an assumed name in New York. In districts in which teachers or
				  administrators are not represented by a collective bargaining organization or
				  there are no school-related parent organizations, teachers, administrators
				  and/or parents shall be selected by their peers in the manner prescribed by the
				  board of education or BOCES to participate in the development of such district
				  plan. In the City School District of the City of New York, the superintendent
				  of each community school district, of each district that reports directly to
				  the chancellor and of each high school superintendency shall develop a plan in
				  the manner prescribed by this subdivision, and each such plan shall be
				  incorporated into a plan by the central board of education, which plan shall
				  comply with this section.
(c) The
				  plan for participation in school-based planning and shared decisionmaking shall
				  specify:
(1) the educational issues which
				  will be subject to cooperative planning and shared decisionmaking at the
				  building level by teachers, parents, administrators, and, at the discretion of
				  the board of education or BOCES, other parties such as students, school
				  district support staff, and community members;
(2) the manner and extent of the expected
				  involvement of all parties;
(3) the
				  means and standards by which all parties shall evaluate improvement in student
				  achievement;
(4) the means by which
				  all parties will be held accountable for the decisions which they share in
				  making;
(5) the process whereby
				  disputes presented by the participating parties about the educational issues
				  being decided upon will be resolved at the local level; and
(6) the manner in which all State and Federal
				  requirements for the involvement of parents in planning and decisionmaking will
				  be coordinated with and met by the overall plan.