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Bill Title: Teacher candidates basic skills exam pass requirement
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 12-7)
Status: (Vetoed) 2011-05-25 - Governor veto [SF170 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-SF170-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Teacher candidates basic skills exam pass requirement
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 12-7)
Status: (Vetoed) 2011-05-25 - Governor veto [SF170 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-SF170-Comm_Sub.html
1.1CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT ON S.F. No. 170
1.3relating to education; requiring teacher candidates to pass basic skills exam;
1.4amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, sections 122A.09, subdivision 4; 122A.18,
1.5subdivision 2.
1.6May 14, 2011
1.7The Honorable Michelle L. Fischbach
1.8President of the Senate
1.9The Honorable Kurt Zellers
1.10Speaker of the House of Representatives
1.11We, the undersigned conferees for S.F. No. 170 report that we have agreed upon the
1.12items in dispute and recommend as follows:
1.13That the House recede from its amendments and that S.F. No. 170 be further
1.14amended as follows:
1.15Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:
1.16 "Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.09, subdivision 4, is amended to
1.17read:
1.18 Subd. 4. License and rules. (a) The board must adopt rules to license public school
1.19teachers and interns subject to chapter 14.
1.20(b) The board must adopt rules requiring a person tosuccessfully complete pass a
1.21skills examination in reading, writing, and mathematics as a requirement for initial teacher
1.22licensure.Such rules must require college and universities offering a board-approved
1.23teacher preparation program to provide remedial assistance to persons who did not achieve
1.24a qualifying score on the skills examination, including those for whom English is a second
1.25language. The board must adopt rules requiring a person who enters a board-approved
1.26teacher preparation program on or after January 1, 2014, to pass a skills examination in
1.27reading, writing, and mathematics as a requirement for entering that program.
1.28(c) The board must adopt rules to approve teacher preparation programs. The board,
1.29upon the request of a postsecondary student preparing for teacher licensure or a licensed
2.1graduate of a teacher preparation program, shall assist in resolving a dispute between the
2.2person and a postsecondary institution providing a teacher preparation program when the
2.3dispute involves an institution's recommendation for licensure affecting the person or the
2.4person's credentials. At the board's discretion, assistance may include the application
2.5of chapter 14.
2.6(d) The board must provide the leadership and shall adopt rules for the redesign of
2.7teacher education programs to implement a research based, results-oriented curriculum
2.8that focuses on the skills teachers need in order to be effective. The board shall implement
2.9new systems of teacher preparation program evaluation to assure program effectiveness
2.10based on proficiency of graduates in demonstrating attainment of program outcomes.
2.11(e) The board must adopt rules requiring candidates for initial licenses tosuccessfully
2.12complete pass an examination of general pedagogical knowledge and examinations of
2.13licensure-specific teaching skills. The rules shall be effective by September 1, 2001.
2.14The rules under this paragraph also must require candidates for initial licenses to teach
2.15prekindergarten or elementary students tosuccessfully complete pass, as part of the
2.16examination of licensure-specific teaching skills, test items assessing the candidates'
2.17knowledge, skill, and ability in comprehensive, scientifically based reading instruction
2.18under section122A.06 , subdivision 4, and their knowledge and understanding of the
2.19foundations of reading development, the development of reading comprehension, and
2.20reading assessment and instruction, and their ability to integrate that knowledge and
2.21understanding.
2.22(f) The board must adopt rules requiring teacher educators to work directly with
2.23elementary or secondary school teachers in elementary or secondary schools to obtain
2.24periodic exposure to the elementary or secondary teaching environment.
2.25(g) The board must grant licenses to interns and to candidates for initial licenses.
2.26(h) The board must design and implement an assessment system which requires a
2.27candidate for an initial license and first continuing license to demonstrate the abilities
2.28necessary to perform selected, representative teaching tasks at appropriate levels.
2.29(i) The board must receive recommendations from local committees as established
2.30by the board for the renewal of teaching licenses.
2.31(j) The board must grant life licenses to those who qualify according to requirements
2.32established by the board, and suspend or revoke licenses pursuant to sections122A.20 and
2.33214.10
. The board must not establish any expiration date for application for life licenses.
2.34(k) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
2.35their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation in
2.36the areas of using positive behavior interventions and in accommodating, modifying, and
3.1adapting curricula, materials, and strategies to appropriately meet the needs of individual
3.2students and ensure adequate progress toward the state's graduation rule.
3.3(l) In adopting rules to license public school teachers who provide health-related
3.4services for disabled children, the board shall adopt rules consistent with license or
3.5registration requirements of the commissioner of health and the health-related boards who
3.6license personnel who perform similar services outside of the school.
3.7(m) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.8their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further reading
3.9preparation, consistent with section122A.06, subdivision 4 . The rules do not take effect
3.10until they are approved by law. Teachers who do not provide direct instruction including, at
3.11least, counselors, school psychologists, school nurses, school social workers, audiovisual
3.12directors and coordinators, and recreation personnel are exempt from this section.
3.13(n) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.14their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation
3.15in understanding the key warning signs of early-onset mental illness in children and
3.16adolescents.
3.17 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.18, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
3.18 Subd. 2. Teacher and support personnel qualifications. (a) The Board of
3.19Teaching must issue licenses under its jurisdiction to persons the board finds to be
3.20qualified and competent for their respective positions.
3.21(b) The board must require a person who enters a board-approved teacher preparation
3.22program before January 1, 2014, tosuccessfully complete pass an examination of skills
3.23in reading, writing, and mathematics before being granted an initial teaching license to
3.24provide direct instruction to pupils in prekindergarten, elementary, secondary, or special
3.25education programs.The board must require colleges and universities offering a board
3.26approved teacher preparation program to provide remedial assistance that includes a
3.27formal diagnostic component to persons enrolled in their institution who did not achieve a
3.28qualifying score on the skills examination, including those for whom English is a second
3.29language. The colleges and universities must provide assistance in the specific academic
3.30areas of deficiency in which the person did not achieve a qualifying score. To be granted
3.31an initial teaching license, the board must require a person who enters a board-approved
3.32teacher preparation program on or after January 1, 2014, to pass an examination of skills
3.33in reading, writing, and mathematics before entering that program. The board must issue a
3.34one-year license to teach in Minnesota to an otherwise qualified person who completed a
3.35teacher preparation program outside the state of Minnesota, during which time that person
4.1must take and pass the state skills examination in reading, writing, and math. School
4.2districtsmust provide similar, may offer appropriate, and timely remedial assistance that
4.3includes a formal diagnostic component and mentoring to those persons employed by the
4.4district who completed their teachereducation preparation program outside the state
4.5of Minnesota, received a one-year license to teach in Minnesota and did not achieve a
4.6qualifying score on the skills examination, including those persons for whom English
4.7is a second language. The Board of Teaching shall report annually to the education
4.8committees of the legislature on the total number of teacher candidates during the most
4.9recent school year taking the skills examination, the number who achieve a qualifying
4.10score on the examination, the number who do not achieve a qualifying score on the
4.11examination, the distribution of all candidates' scores, the number of candidates who have
4.12taken the examination at least once before, and the number of candidates who have taken
4.13the examination at least once before and achieve a qualifying score.
4.14(c) A person who has completed an approved teacher preparation program and
4.15obtained a one-year license to teach, but has not successfully completed the skills
4.16examination, may renew the one-year license for two additional one-year periods. Each
4.17renewal of the one-year license is contingent upon the licensee:
4.18(1) providing evidence of participating in an approved remedial assistance program
4.19provided by a school district or postsecondary institution that includes a formal diagnostic
4.20component in the specific areas in which the licensee did not obtain qualifying scores; and
4.21(2) attempting to successfully complete the skills examination during the period
4.22of each one-year license.
4.23(d) (c) The Board of Teaching must grant continuing licenses only to those persons
4.24who have met board criteria for granting a continuing license, which includessuccessfully
4.25completing passing the skills examination in reading, writing, and mathematics.
4.26(e) (d) All colleges and universities approved by the board of teaching to prepare
4.27persons for teacher licensure must include in their teacher preparation programs a common
4.28core of teaching knowledge and skills to be acquired by all persons recommended
4.29for teacher licensure. This common core shall meet the standards developed by the
4.30interstate new teacher assessment and support consortium in its 1992 "model standards for
4.31beginning teacher licensing and development." Amendments to standards adopted under
4.32this paragraph are covered by chapter 14. The board of teaching shall report annually to
4.33the education committees of the legislature on the performance of teacher candidates
4.34on common core assessments of knowledge and skills under this paragraph during the
4.35most recent school year.
5.1 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.23, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
5.2 Subd. 2. Applicants licensed in other states. (a) Subject to the requirements of
5.3sections122A.18, subdivision subdivisions 2, paragraph (b), and 8 , and
123B.03 , the
5.4Board of Teaching must issue a teaching license or a temporary teaching license under
5.5paragraphs (b) to (e) to an applicant who holds at least a baccalaureate degree from a
5.6regionally accredited college or university and holds or held a similar out-of-state teaching
5.7license that requires the applicant to successfully complete a teacher preparation program
5.8approved by the issuing state, which includes field-specific teaching methods and student
5.9teaching or essentially equivalent experience.
5.10(b) The Board of Teaching must issue a teaching license to an applicant who:
5.11(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.12required by the Board of Teaching; and
5.13(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field and
5.14grade levels if the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade level less
5.15than a similar Minnesota license.
5.16(c) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules, must issue up to three
5.17one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who holds or held an out-of-state
5.18teaching license to teach the same content field and grade levels, where the scope of the
5.19out-of-state license is no more than one grade level less than a similar Minnesota license,
5.20but has not successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.21required by the Board of Teaching.
5.22(d) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules, must issue up to three
5.23one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who:
5.24(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.25required by the Board of Teaching; and
5.26(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field
5.27and grade levels, where the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade
5.28level less than a similar Minnesota license, but has not completed field-specific teaching
5.29methods or student teaching or equivalent experience.
5.30The applicant may complete field-specific teaching methods and student teaching
5.31or equivalent experience by successfully participating in a one-year school district
5.32mentorship program consistent with board-adopted standards of effective practice and
5.33Minnesota graduation requirements.
5.34(e) The Board of Teaching must issue a temporary teaching license for a term of
5.35up to three years only in the content field or grade levels specified in the out-of-state
5.36license to an applicant who:
6.1(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
6.2required by the Board of Teaching; and
6.3(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license where the out-of-state license is
6.4more limited in the content field or grade levels than a similar Minnesota license.
6.5(f) The Board of Teaching must not issue to an applicant more than three one-year
6.6temporary teaching licenses under this subdivision.
6.7(g) The Board of Teaching must not issue a license under this subdivision if the
6.8applicant has not attained the additional degrees, credentials, or licenses required in a
6.9particular licensure field."
6.10Delete the title and insert:
6.12relating to education; requiring teacher candidates to pass basic skills exam;
6.13amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, sections 122A.09, subdivision 4; 122A.18,
6.14subdivision 2; 122A.23, subdivision 2."
1.3relating to education; requiring teacher candidates to pass basic skills exam;
1.4amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, sections 122A.09, subdivision 4; 122A.18,
1.5subdivision 2.
1.6May 14, 2011
1.7The Honorable Michelle L. Fischbach
1.8President of the Senate
1.9The Honorable Kurt Zellers
1.10Speaker of the House of Representatives
1.11We, the undersigned conferees for S.F. No. 170 report that we have agreed upon the
1.12items in dispute and recommend as follows:
1.13That the House recede from its amendments and that S.F. No. 170 be further
1.14amended as follows:
1.15Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:
1.16 "Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.09, subdivision 4, is amended to
1.17read:
1.18 Subd. 4. License and rules. (a) The board must adopt rules to license public school
1.19teachers and interns subject to chapter 14.
1.20(b) The board must adopt rules requiring a person to
1.21skills examination in reading, writing, and mathematics as a requirement for initial teacher
1.22licensure.
1.23
1.24
1.25
1.26teacher preparation program on or after January 1, 2014, to pass a skills examination in
1.27reading, writing, and mathematics as a requirement for entering that program.
1.28(c) The board must adopt rules to approve teacher preparation programs. The board,
1.29upon the request of a postsecondary student preparing for teacher licensure or a licensed
2.1graduate of a teacher preparation program, shall assist in resolving a dispute between the
2.2person and a postsecondary institution providing a teacher preparation program when the
2.3dispute involves an institution's recommendation for licensure affecting the person or the
2.4person's credentials. At the board's discretion, assistance may include the application
2.5of chapter 14.
2.6(d) The board must provide the leadership and shall adopt rules for the redesign of
2.7teacher education programs to implement a research based, results-oriented curriculum
2.8that focuses on the skills teachers need in order to be effective. The board shall implement
2.9new systems of teacher preparation program evaluation to assure program effectiveness
2.10based on proficiency of graduates in demonstrating attainment of program outcomes.
2.11(e) The board must adopt rules requiring candidates for initial licenses to
2.12
2.13licensure-specific teaching skills. The rules shall be effective by September 1, 2001.
2.14The rules under this paragraph also must require candidates for initial licenses to teach
2.15prekindergarten or elementary students to
2.16examination of licensure-specific teaching skills, test items assessing the candidates'
2.17knowledge, skill, and ability in comprehensive, scientifically based reading instruction
2.18under section
2.19foundations of reading development, the development of reading comprehension, and
2.20reading assessment and instruction, and their ability to integrate that knowledge and
2.21understanding.
2.22(f) The board must adopt rules requiring teacher educators to work directly with
2.23elementary or secondary school teachers in elementary or secondary schools to obtain
2.24periodic exposure to the elementary or secondary teaching environment.
2.25(g) The board must grant licenses to interns and to candidates for initial licenses.
2.26(h) The board must design and implement an assessment system which requires a
2.27candidate for an initial license and first continuing license to demonstrate the abilities
2.28necessary to perform selected, representative teaching tasks at appropriate levels.
2.29(i) The board must receive recommendations from local committees as established
2.30by the board for the renewal of teaching licenses.
2.31(j) The board must grant life licenses to those who qualify according to requirements
2.32established by the board, and suspend or revoke licenses pursuant to sections
2.34(k) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
2.35their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation in
2.36the areas of using positive behavior interventions and in accommodating, modifying, and
3.1adapting curricula, materials, and strategies to appropriately meet the needs of individual
3.2students and ensure adequate progress toward the state's graduation rule.
3.3(l) In adopting rules to license public school teachers who provide health-related
3.4services for disabled children, the board shall adopt rules consistent with license or
3.5registration requirements of the commissioner of health and the health-related boards who
3.6license personnel who perform similar services outside of the school.
3.7(m) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.8their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further reading
3.9preparation, consistent with section
3.10until they are approved by law. Teachers who do not provide direct instruction including, at
3.11least, counselors, school psychologists, school nurses, school social workers, audiovisual
3.12directors and coordinators, and recreation personnel are exempt from this section.
3.13(n) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.14their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation
3.15in understanding the key warning signs of early-onset mental illness in children and
3.16adolescents.
3.17 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.18, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
3.18 Subd. 2. Teacher and support personnel qualifications. (a) The Board of
3.19Teaching must issue licenses under its jurisdiction to persons the board finds to be
3.20qualified and competent for their respective positions.
3.21(b) The board must require a person who enters a board-approved teacher preparation
3.22program before January 1, 2014, to
3.23in reading, writing, and mathematics before being granted an initial teaching license to
3.24provide direct instruction to pupils in prekindergarten, elementary, secondary, or special
3.25education programs.
3.26
3.27
3.28
3.29
3.30
3.31an initial teaching license, the board must require a person who enters a board-approved
3.32teacher preparation program on or after January 1, 2014, to pass an examination of skills
3.33in reading, writing, and mathematics before entering that program. The board must issue a
3.34one-year license to teach in Minnesota to an otherwise qualified person who completed a
3.35teacher preparation program outside the state of Minnesota, during which time that person
4.1must take and pass the state skills examination in reading, writing, and math. School
4.2districts
4.3includes a formal diagnostic component and mentoring to those persons employed by the
4.4district who completed their teacher
4.5of Minnesota, received a one-year license to teach in Minnesota and did not achieve a
4.6qualifying score on the skills examination, including those persons for whom English
4.7is a second language. The Board of Teaching shall report annually to the education
4.8committees of the legislature on the total number of teacher candidates during the most
4.9recent school year taking the skills examination, the number who achieve a qualifying
4.10score on the examination, the number who do not achieve a qualifying score on the
4.11examination, the distribution of all candidates' scores, the number of candidates who have
4.12taken the examination at least once before, and the number of candidates who have taken
4.13the examination at least once before and achieve a qualifying score.
4.14
4.15
4.16
4.17
4.18
4.19
4.20
4.21
4.22
4.23
4.24who have met board criteria for granting a continuing license, which includes
4.25
4.26
4.27persons for teacher licensure must include in their teacher preparation programs a common
4.28core of teaching knowledge and skills to be acquired by all persons recommended
4.29for teacher licensure. This common core shall meet the standards developed by the
4.30interstate new teacher assessment and support consortium in its 1992 "model standards for
4.31beginning teacher licensing and development." Amendments to standards adopted under
4.32this paragraph are covered by chapter 14. The board of teaching shall report annually to
4.33the education committees of the legislature on the performance of teacher candidates
4.34on common core assessments of knowledge and skills under this paragraph during the
4.35most recent school year.
5.1 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.23, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
5.2 Subd. 2. Applicants licensed in other states. (a) Subject to the requirements of
5.3sections
5.4Board of Teaching must issue a teaching license or a temporary teaching license under
5.5paragraphs (b) to (e) to an applicant who holds at least a baccalaureate degree from a
5.6regionally accredited college or university and holds or held a similar out-of-state teaching
5.7license that requires the applicant to successfully complete a teacher preparation program
5.8approved by the issuing state, which includes field-specific teaching methods and student
5.9teaching or essentially equivalent experience.
5.10(b) The Board of Teaching must issue a teaching license to an applicant who:
5.11(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.12required by the Board of Teaching; and
5.13(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field and
5.14grade levels if the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade level less
5.15than a similar Minnesota license.
5.16(c) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules, must issue up to three
5.17one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who holds or held an out-of-state
5.18teaching license to teach the same content field and grade levels, where the scope of the
5.19out-of-state license is no more than one grade level less than a similar Minnesota license,
5.20but has not successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.21required by the Board of Teaching.
5.22(d) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules, must issue up to three
5.23one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who:
5.24(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.25required by the Board of Teaching; and
5.26(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field
5.27and grade levels, where the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade
5.28level less than a similar Minnesota license, but has not completed field-specific teaching
5.29methods or student teaching or equivalent experience.
5.30The applicant may complete field-specific teaching methods and student teaching
5.31or equivalent experience by successfully participating in a one-year school district
5.32mentorship program consistent with board-adopted standards of effective practice and
5.33Minnesota graduation requirements.
5.34(e) The Board of Teaching must issue a temporary teaching license for a term of
5.35up to three years only in the content field or grade levels specified in the out-of-state
5.36license to an applicant who:
6.1(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
6.2required by the Board of Teaching; and
6.3(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license where the out-of-state license is
6.4more limited in the content field or grade levels than a similar Minnesota license.
6.5(f) The Board of Teaching must not issue to an applicant more than three one-year
6.6temporary teaching licenses under this subdivision.
6.7(g) The Board of Teaching must not issue a license under this subdivision if the
6.8applicant has not attained the additional degrees, credentials, or licenses required in a
6.9particular licensure field."
6.10Delete the title and insert:
6.12relating to education; requiring teacher candidates to pass basic skills exam;
6.13amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, sections 122A.09, subdivision 4; 122A.18,
6.14subdivision 2; 122A.23, subdivision 2."
