A 3668: Authorizes the state education department to contract for a program related to teacher recruitment and retention.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3668 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing the state education department to contract for a program related to teacher recruitment and retention The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 63 to read as follows: 3 63. The commissioner is authorized and directed, subject to appropri- 4 ation, to contract with a not-for-profit organization for a period of 5 three years, beginning in the two thousand twenty-six--two thousand 6 twenty-seven school year, to establish a program to address public 7 school teacher recruitment and retention in the state. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07671-01-5