§ 3612. Teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention\nprogram. 1. Definitions. a. The term "teacher shortage area" means a\npublic school or subject area in which there was a shortage of certified\nteachers in the previous school year and there is a projected shortage\nin the current school year as determined by the commissioner.\n b. The term "certified teacher" means a teacher who holds a state\nteaching certificate appropriate to the teaching position, including the\nsubject area if applicable, in which he or she is to be employed.\n c. The term "school district" shall mean a common, union free,\ncentral, central high school, or city school district.\n d. The term "board of education" shall mean the governing board of any\npublic school or public school district defined in paragraph c of this\nsubdivision.\n e. The term "low performing school" shall mean a school building which\nis under registration review or a school building performing\nsignificantly below state standards as defined by the commissioner.\n f. The term "year of service" shall mean ten months of continuous\nfull-time service as a teacher during a school year, generally occurring\nbetween September first and June thirtieth.\n 2. Application and funding. a. Grants shall be made to school\ndistricts for teacher recruitment, retention and certification\nactivities necessary to increase the supply of qualified teachers in\nschool districts experiencing a teacher shortage in accordance with\nsubdivisions three, four, five, seven and eight of this section and in\nschool districts containing a low-performing school pursuant to\nsubdivision six of this section.\n b. Such grants shall be awarded to school districts, within the limits\nof funds appropriated therefor, through a competitive process that takes\ninto consideration the magnitude of any shortage of teachers in the\nschool district, the number of teachers employed in the school district\nwho hold temporary licenses to teach in the public schools of the state,\nthe number of provisionally certified teachers, the fiscal capacity and\ngeographic sparsity of the district, the number of new teachers the\nschool district intends to hire in the coming school year and the number\nof summer in the city student internships proposed by an eligible school\ndistrict, if applicable. Grants provided pursuant to this section shall\nbe used only for the purposes enumerated in this section.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a city\nschool district in a city having a population of one million or more\ninhabitants receiving a grant pursuant to this section may use no more\nthan eighty percent of such grant funds for any recruitment, retention\nand certification costs associated with transitional certification of\nteacher candidates for the school years two thousand one--two thousand\ntwo through two thousand twenty-eight--two thousand twenty-nine.\n c. Not more than sixty percent of the funds allocated pursuant to this\nsection shall be made available to any one school district and provided\nfurther that a city school district in a city with populations in excess\nof one million inhabitants may, notwithstanding any other provision of\nthis section, allocate a portion of the grant received pursuant to this\nsection for teacher recruitment and outreach activities provided that\nany allocation for teacher recruitment and outreach activities shall not\nexceed two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars.\n d. In allocating grants pursuant to this section, a school district\nshall give priority in the following order:\n (1) first, to a school under registration review that is designated as\na teacher shortage area;\n (2) second, to any school performing significantly below state\nstandards as defined by the commissioner; and\n (3) third, to any school that is designated as a teacher shortage\narea.\n e. Any school district receiving funds under this section shall\nmaintain any local eff
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