Bill Text: CA AB672 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Civil Rights Department: community assistance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-24 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS. [AB672 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB672-Amended.html
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Amended
IN
Senate
May 23, 2024 |
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Amended
IN
Assembly
April 18, 2023 |
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Amended
IN
Assembly
March 30, 2023 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Jackson |
February 13, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires, as a minimum requirement for a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential, the satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation that includes a teaching performance assessment that meets specified requirements and has been approved by the commission, as provided.
This bill would require the commission to convene a Teacher Credentialing Task Force, as provided, by no later than March 1, 2024. The bill would require the task force to examine, among other things, the available research on factors that enable and constrain recruitment, credentialing, and retention of a diverse teaching
workforce and the experiences of student candidates in various credentialing pathways, as provided, and to report to the appropriate committees of the Legislature, on or before March 1, 2027, on any policy recommendations based on those findings, for increasing the number of, and diversity of, qualified teachers in California. The bill would require the commission to contract with a nationally recognized, neutral, nonpartisan, nonprofit education policy organization to facilitate the task force’s work, including completing the required report.
This bill would make these provisions inoperative on March 1, 2031, and would repeal it as of January 1, 2032.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 12931 of the Government Code is amended to read:12931.
(a) The department may also provide assistance to communities and persons therein in resolving disputes, disagreements, or difficulties relating to discriminatory practices based on race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, veteran or military status, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, familial status, age, reproductive health decisionmaking, or sexual orientation that impair the rights of persons in those communities under the Constitution or laws of the United States or of this state. The services of the department may be made available in cases of these disputes, disagreements, or difficulties only when, in its judgment, peaceful relations among the persons of the community involved are threatened thereby. The
(a)(1)The commission shall convene a Teacher Credentialing Task Force by no later than March 1, 2024.
(2)The task force shall be composed of 19 members, as follows:
(A)Three teacher educator faculty representing both undergraduate and graduate education programs as follows:
(i)One member
from the California State University.
(ii)One member
from the University of California.
(iii)One member from the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities.
(B)Three representatives from organizations representing university faculty, credentialed teachers, or school administrators.
(C)One representative from a teacher education research organization.
(D)Five practicing teachers from public elementary and secondary schools in California, the majority of which shall be within their first five years of teaching.
(E)Three teacher preparation candidates.
(F)Three practicing school administrators from public and elementary and secondary schools in California, as follows:
(i)One administrator at an elementary school.
(ii)One administrator at a middle school or junior high school.
(iii)One administrator at a high school.
(G)One human resources representative from a public elementary or secondary school in California.
(b)The task force shall do all of the following:
(1)(A)Review and examine available research on factors that enable and constrain recruitment, credentialing, and retention of a diverse teaching workforce.
(B)Gather and review input or data, or both, from the department, the commission, local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and other relevant stakeholders regarding the state’s teacher shortage.
(C)Prioritize speaking with current student candidates, new teachers in the workforce, and representatives from local educational agencies that are responsible for recruiting and hiring new teachers.
(2)(A)Examine the experiences of student candidates in various credentialing pathways from preparation, credentialing, and induction,
through the first five years of teaching, including, but not necessarily limited to, the requirements to complete all of the following:
(i)The California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET).
(ii)The California Basic Education Skills Test (CBEST).
(iii)The Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA).
(iv)The California Teaching Performance Assessments (CalTPAs).
(v)The provisions and principles of the United States Constitution requirement.
(vi)Instruction in health education.
(vii)Instruction in foundational and advanced computer technology.
(B)In examining the requirements in various credentialing pathways pursuant to subparagraph (A), focus on the extent to which the requirements support the recruitment, development, and retention of a diverse teaching workforce while maintaining teacher quality and effectiveness.
(C)The research design pursuant to this paragraph shall examine candidates and preliminary credentialed teachers in each of these phases of development simultaneously.
(3)Research outcomes during the first five years of individuals being credentialed by determining if those individuals have stayed in the profession, left the profession, or have expressed a desire to
leave the profession.
(4)Identify any barriers to entry for prospective teachers, and in particular, prospective teachers from diverse backgrounds during the current teacher recruitment process, the current teacher preparation process, and the current teacher enrollment process.
(c)The commission shall contract with a nationally recognized, neutral, nonpartisan, nonprofit education policy organization to facilitate the task force’s work, including completing the report required pursuant to subdivision (d).
(d)(1)The commission shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of the Legislature, in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, on or before March 1, 2027, covering any policy
recommendations based on those findings pursuant to subdivision (b), for increasing the number of, and diversity of, qualified teachers in California.
(2)Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section shall become inoperative on March 1, 2031, and, as of January 1, 2032, is repealed.
