AB 2275, as amended, Dababneh. Teacher credentialing: computer science courses.
Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue single subject teaching credentials only in specific subjects.
This bill would authorize a person who holds a single subjectbegin insert teachingend insert credential in business, industrial and technology education, mathematics, or sciencebegin insert or a designated subjects career technical education teaching credentialend insert to teach courses in computerbegin delete science.end deletebegin insert science to all pupils.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 44257 of the Education Code is amended
2to read:
(a) The commission shall issue single subject teaching
4credentials only in the following subjects:
5(1) Agriculture.
P2 1(2) Art.
2(3) Business.
3(4) English.
4(5) Foreign Language.
5(6) Health Science.
6(7) Home Economics.
7(8) Industrial and Technology Education.
8(9) Mathematics.
9(10) Music.
10(11) Physical Education.
11(12) Science.
12(13) Social Science.
13(b) The commission shall issue the single subject teaching
14credential in foreign language with an authorization to teach
15Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish, or any other language
16that the commission determines is appropriate.
17(c) Subjects that are commonly taught in departmentalized
18classes in California public schools shall be
subsumed under the
19credential categories in subdivision (a).
20(d) The commission shall issue single subject teaching
21credentials in the categories that were identified in Section 44282
22as of December 31, 1993, to applicants who were in the process
23of preparing to earn those credentials before the effective date of
24the commission’s implementation of subdivision (a).
25(e) A person issued a single subject teaching credential in
26business, industrial and technology education, mathematics, or
27sciencebegin insert or a designated subjects career technical education
28teaching credentialend insert is authorized to teach computerbegin delete science.end deletebegin insert
science
29to all pupils, including, but not limited to, pupils enrolled in a
30general education or college preparatory course or a career
31technical education pathway.end insert
32(f) This section does not prohibit a school district from
33employing a person to teach computer science who holds a single
34subject teaching credential in another subject with an authorization
35to teach computer concepts and applications.
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