A11157 • 2025

Establishes representative requirements for district leadership teams and school leadership teams

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Sponsor: Jordan Wright
Last action: 2026-04-28
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Establishes representative requirements for district leadership teams and school leadership teams

Establishes representative requirements for district leadership teams and school leadership teams Requires district leadership teams and school leadership teams to include student representatives; provides who should appoint such representatives.

What This Bill Does

Establishes representative requirements for district leadership teams and school leadership teams Requires district leadership teams and school leadership teams to include student representatives; provides who should appoint such representatives.

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Bill History

2026-04-28 Assembly
REFERRED TO CITIES

Official Summary Text

Establishes representative requirements for district leadership teams and school leadership teams
Requires district leadership teams and school leadership teams to include student representatives; provides who should appoint such representatives.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          11157

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 28, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Cities

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to establishing certain requirements for district  leadership
          teams and school leadership teams

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Title 21-A of the administrative code of the  city  of  New
     2  York is amended by adding a new chapter 23-A to read as follows:
     3                                CHAPTER 23-A
     4                              LEADERSHIP TEAMS
     5    § 21-990.1 STUDENT  LEADERSHIP.  A.  EACH DISTRICT LEADERSHIP TEAM AND
     6  SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TEAM SHALL APPOINT ONE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE TO SERVE
     7  AS MEMBERS OF SUCH TEAMS.
     8    B. STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES APPOINTED TO  A  DISTRICT  LEADERSHIP  TEAM
     9  SHALL  BE  HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES AND SHALL BE APPOINTED BY
    10  THE COMMUNITY SUPERINTENDENT.
    11    C. STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES APPOINTED TO SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TEAMS  SHALL
    12  BE  STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES AND SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE CHAIRPERSON OR
    13  CO-CHAIRPERSONS OF SUCH TEAM.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    16  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    17  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    18  on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01939-01-5