§ 2590-j. Appointment and removal of persons in the teaching and\nsupervisory service. 1. Persons in the teaching and supervisory service\nin all schools in the city system shall be appointed as prescribed by\nthis section.\n 2. The chancellor shall promulgate minimum education and experience\nrequirements for all teaching and supervisory service positions which\nshall not be less than minimum state requirements for certification, and\nwith the approval of the city board shall create and abolish the titles\nof all positions in the teaching and supervisory service.\n 4. (a) The chancellor shall appoint and assign teachers for all\nschools and programs under the jurisdiction of the city board from\neligible lists of prospective appointees selected by random selection\nfrom qualifying eligible lists.\n (b) The chancellor shall appoint and assign all supervisory personnel\nfor all schools and programs under the jurisdiction of the city board\nfrom persons on qualifying eligible lists.\n (c) Consistent with the provisions of sections twenty-five hundred\nninety-f, twenty-five hundred ninety-h and twenty-five hundred ninety-i\nof this article, the district superintendent shall appoint teachers for\nall schools and programs under the community district's jurisdiction who\nare assigned to the district by the chancellor from eligible lists of\nprospective appointees selected by random selection from qualifying\neligible lists. Insofar as practicable the chancellor, when making such\nassignments shall give effect to the requests for assignment of specific\npersons by the community superintendent. The community superintendent\nshall appoint such teachers to schools within such district within\nthirty days if such appointment is to be effective on a date subsequent\nthereto and within three days if such appointment is to be effective\nimmediately.\n (d) Each community superintendent shall appoint and assign all\nsupervisory personnel for all schools and programs under his or her\njurisdiction from persons on qualifying eligible lists except for those\npersonnel appointed pursuant to paragraph (d) of subdivision one of\nsection twenty-five hundred ninety-f of this article.\n (e) No person who is related within the third degree of consanguinity\nor affinity to the chancellor or to any member of the city board or to\nany community superintendent or to any member of a community board shall\ncommence employment with the city or community district of which such\nrelative is a member, chancellor or superintendent, except upon the\nconsent of two-thirds of the members of the city board or such community\nboard, as the case may be, to be determined at a public meeting of the\ncity board or such community board.\n 5. (a) The chancellor shall cause a comprehensive reading examination\nto be administered to all pupils in all schools under the jurisdiction\nof the community districts annually. Prior to October first of every\nyear each school shall be ranked in order of the percentage of pupils\nreading at or above grade level as determined by such examination, in\naccordance with rules to be promulgated by the chancellor.\n (b) If the ranking of a school under the jurisdiction of a community\ndistrict falls in the lower forty-five percent of the ranking of all\nsuch schools, as provided in paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the\ncommunity superintendent of such school (hereinafter called an eligible\nschool) may appoint teachers to such school in conformity with this\nsubdivision, any other provision of this section or chapter\nnotwithstanding, provided, that in the first year during which this\nparagraph is operative, only a school in the lower forty percent shall\nbe an eligible school.\n (c) The community superintendent of each eligible school may between\nOctober first in the year in which the foregoing examination was\nadministered and the following May first, appoint any person a teacher\nin such school for the school year commencing i
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