2021 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 4 - Teachers and Pupils
Article 61 - Teachers and Supervisory and Administrative Staff
3033 - New York State Mentor Teacher-Internship Program.

§ 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 with  the  provisions  of  this
  section.
2.  Each  board  of  education  or  board  of  cooperative educational
  services which applies for funds under this section shall prepare a plan
  for implementation of a  mentor  teacher-internship  program  consistent
  with  article  fourteen  of  the  civil  service  law. The plan shall be
  developed in  accordance  with  this  section  and  regulations  of  the
  commissioner. The board of education or board of cooperative educational
  services  shall  submit  an  application  and  plan  by May first of the
  current year for approval by the commissioner; provided however for  the
  nineteen  hundred  ninety-seven--ninety-eight school year, such plan may
  be submitted by November first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven.
3. Each board  of  education  and  board  of  cooperative  educational
  services  which  determines  to  participate in the program shall select
  persons eligible to serve as mentor teachers from a list of persons  who
  have  demonstrated  their  mastery  of  pedagogical  and  subject matter
  skills, given evidence of superior teaching abilities and  interpersonal
  relationship  qualities,  and  who  have  indicated their willingness to
  participate in such program. Such list of persons eligible to  serve  as
  mentor  teachers shall be developed by a selection committee composed of
  certified or licensed personnel employed by the school district  or  the
  board  of  cooperative educational services, a majority of whom shall be
  classroom teachers  chosen  by  the  certified  or  recognized  teachers
  employee  organization. The assignment of particular mentor teachers and
  teacher interns to work together shall be made by the superintendent  of
  the   participating   district   or   district   superintendent  of  the
  participating board of cooperative  educational  services.  Each  person
  designated  as  a  mentor  teacher  shall  continue to provide classroom
  instruction for at least sixty percent of the time spent in  performance
  of such individual's duties during the school year or such person may so
  serve  on  a  full-time  basis for not more than two school years out of
  five consecutive school years, provided that such service  as  a  mentor
  teacher  shall not diminish or impair the tenure and seniority rights of
  the mentor teacher.
4. Each board  of  education  and  board  of  cooperative  educational
  services    which    determines    to    participate   in   the   mentor
  teacher-internship program shall require  those  first  or  second  year
  eligible  teachers which it chooses to include in the program to perform
  their duties under the guidance of a mentor teacher,  and  shall  ensure
  that  such teacher intern and mentor carry no more than a ninety percent
  classroom instruction assignment in order to allow such  teacher  intern
  time  to  receive  special assistance from a mentor teacher. In order to
  participate as a teacher intern in a mentor teacher-internship  program,
  a  first  or  second  year teacher shall hold a provisional or permanent
  teaching certificate, temporary emergency license, regular  license,  or
  temporary  per  diem certificate for a field in which no licensed person
  is available to teach and shall not have participated in such program in
  the previous year.
5. A school district or  board  of  cooperative  educational  services
  participating  in  an  approved mentor teacher-internship program in the
  current year shall be eligible for aid  including  but  not  limited  to
  costs related to release time of the intern and mentor teacher up to ten
  percent  of  the  mentor  teacher's  salary and up to ten percent of the
  teacher intern's salary respectively in accordance with  the  provisions
  of  this  subdivision.  To receive such assistance, a school district or

  board of cooperative educational services must file  a  claim  with  the
  commissioner  by  October  first  of  the  current school year in a form
  prescribed by the commissioner which shall include the actual salary  of
  each  program  participant  as  of September fifteenth of such year. The
  commissioner shall pay one-half of the  amount  of  such  assistance  by
  January  fifteenth of each year and shall pay the remaining amount based
  upon a final report filed by the school district by August fifteenth  of
  each year.
6.  Each  board  of  education  and  board  of cooperative educational
  services which participates in the program shall file a report with  the
  commissioner  on  or  before August first of each school year concerning
  compliance with the requirements of the  program  during  the  preceding
  school  year.    Such report shall be in such form and in such manner as
  the commissioner may  require.  The  commissioner  shall  evaluate  such
  programs  and  file  a report with the legislature on or before December
  first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven.