SB 916, as introduced, Allen. Teacher credentialing.
Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue single subject teaching credentials only in specific subjects.
This bill would add dance and theatre to the list of authorized subjects.
Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to authorize a person who holds a certain teaching credential and who has completed 20 semester hours of coursework or 10 semester hours of upper division or graduate coursework approved by the commission at an accredited institution in any subject commonly taught in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, other than the subject for which he or she is already certificated to teach, to have this subject appear on the credential as an authorization to teach this subject.
This bill would provide that a person issued a single subject teaching credential in physical education or English before the establishment of a single subject teaching credential in dance or theatre, respectively, is authorized to teach in dance or theatre, respectively.
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.
6(2) Art.
7(3) Business.
begin insert8(4) Dance.
end insert9(4)
end delete10begin insert(5)end insert English.
11(5)
end delete12begin insert(6)end insert Foreign Language.
13(6)
end delete14begin insert(7)end insert Health Science.
15(7)
end delete16begin insert(8)end insert Home Economics.
17(8)
end delete18begin insert(9)end insert Industrial and Technology Education.
19(9)
end delete20begin insert(10)end insert Mathematics.
21(10)
end delete22begin insert(11)end insert Music.
23(11)
end delete24begin insert(12)end insert Physical Education.
25(12)
end delete26begin insert(13)end insert Science.
27(13)
end delete28begin insert(14)end insert Social Science.
begin insert29(15) Theatre.
end insert
30(b) The commission shall issue the single subjectbegin insert teachingend insert
31 credential in foreign language with an authorization to teach
32Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish, or any other language
33that the commission determines is appropriate.
34(c) Subjects that are commonly taught in departmentalized
35classes in California public schools shall be subsumed under the
36credential categories in subdivisionbegin delete (a) of this section.end deletebegin insert
(a).end insert
37(d) The commission shall issue single subject teaching
38credentials in the categories that were identified in Section 44282
P3 1as of December 31, 1993, to applicants who were in the process
2of preparing to earn those credentialsbegin delete prior toend deletebegin insert beforeend insert the effective
3date of the commission’s implementation of subdivision (a).
4(e) (1) A person issued a single subject teaching credential in
5English before the establishment of a single subject teaching
6credential in theatre is authorized to teach theatre.
7(2) A person issued a single subject teaching credential in
8physical education before the establishment of a single subject
9teaching credential in dance is authorized to teach dance.
10(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a school
11district from employing a person who holds a single subject
12teaching credential in another subject with an authorization to
13teach theatre from teaching theatre, or a person who holds a single
14subject teaching credential in another subject with an authorization
15to teach dance from teaching dance.
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