SB 916, as amended, 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 andbegin delete theaterend deletebegin insert theatreend insert 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 orbegin delete theater,end deletebegin insert theatre,end insert respectively, is authorized to teach in dance orbegin delete theater,end deletebegin insert theatre,end insert respectively. The bill would also provide that a person pursuing a single subject teaching credential in physical education or English before the establishment of a single subject teaching
credential in dance orbegin delete theaterend deletebegin insert theatreend insert shall not become subject to additional requirements for the single subject teaching credential in physical education or English, respectively, as a result of the authorization provided by this bill.
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.
8(4) Dance.
9(5) English.
10(6) Foreign Language.
11(7) Health Science.
12(8) Home Economics.
13(9) Industrial and Technology Education.
14(10) Mathematics.
15(11) Music.
16(12) Physical Education.
17(13) Science.
18(14) Social Science.
19(15) Theater.
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(15) Theatre.
21(b) The commission shall issue the single subject teaching
22credential in foreign language with an authorization to teach
23Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish, or any other language
24that the commission determines is appropriate.
25(c) Subjects that are commonly taught in departmentalized
26classes in California public schools shall be subsumed under the
27credential categories in subdivision (a).
28(d) The commission shall issue single subject teaching
29credentials 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 credentials before the effective date of
3the 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 inbegin delete theaterend deletebegin insert theatreend insert is authorized to teachbegin delete theater.end deletebegin insert theatre.end insert
7
A person pursuing a single subject teaching credential in English
8before the establishment of a single subject teaching credential in
9begin delete theaterend deletebegin insert theatreend insert shall not become subject to additional requirements
10for the single subject teaching credential in English as a result of
11the authorization provided by this paragraph.
12(2) A person issued a single subject teaching credential in
13physical education before the establishment of a single subject
14teaching credential in dance is authorized to teach dance. A person
15pursuing a single subject teaching credential in physical education
16before the establishment of a single subject teaching credential in
17dance shall not
become subject to additional requirements for the
18single subject teaching credential in physical education as a result
19of the authorization provided by this paragraph.
20(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a school
21district from employing a person who holds a single subject
22teaching credential in another subject with an authorization to
23teachbegin delete theaterend deletebegin insert theatreend insert from teachingbegin delete theater,end deletebegin insert theatre,end insert or a person
24who holds a single subject teaching credential in another subject
25with an authorization to
teach dance from teaching dance.
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