BILL NUMBER: AB 148	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Coto

                        JANUARY 22, 2009

   An act relating to education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 148, as introduced, Coto. Commission on Teacher Credentialing:
study on transformational leadership.
   Existing law establishes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing
to, among other things, establish professional standards,
assessments, and examinations for entry and advancement in the
education profession.
   This bill would require the commission to conduct a one-year study
to recommend more effective paths to transformational leadership, as
defined, through the administrative credential process on the part
of school principals and leaders. The bill would require the
commission to conduct the study between July 1, 2010, and June 30,
2011, and to report its findings to the Legislature by no later than
December 31, 2011. The bill would repeal those provisions as of
January 1, 2012.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Many California middle and secondary schools remain
significantly underperforming.
   (b) A California economic and social imperative is to produce a
well-trained workforce to maintain its status as one of the world's
top 10 economic powers.
   (c) Latino students, who currently make up 49 percent of
California students, remain one of the least successful populations
in our public schools.
   (d) Out of every 100 Latino students who enter grade 9, only seven
enroll in four-year universities upon graduation.
   (e) Studies, including the 2007 Getting Down to Facts study, have
identified effective leadership as a key to school improvement.
   (f) The Multiple Pathways approach to high school reform
identifies four essential components to school improvement:
   (1) A college-preparatory academic knowledge core for all.
   (2) A professional/technical knowledge core.
   (3) Demanding opportunities for authentic learning.
   (4) Support services to meet unique student needs.
  SEC. 2.  (a) The Commission on Teacher Credentialing shall
administer a one-year study to recommend more effective paths to
transformational leadership through the administrative credential
process on the part of school principals and leaders.
   (b) The study shall define how the transformational leadership
philosophies, knowledge, values, skills, competencies, and values can
be added as part of the initial credential process and as an
authorization added to an administrative credential for those already
credentialed.
   (c) The goal of the study is to recommend to the commission and to
the Legislature the most effective means by which California's
school principals and leaders can gain, demonstrate, and apply the
educational philosophy, values, knowledge, skills and habits of mind
to lead schools and educational communities in the process of
transforming schools to places that:
   (1) Believe in the capacity of all students.
   (2) Commit to the success of all students at high levels.
   (3) Prepare all students for college and other important
educational steps beyond high school.
   (4) Individualize educational experiences for the unique needs of
each student.
   (d) The study shall determine the following:
   (1) Whether the commission should recommend to colleges and
universities programs leading to a supplementary authorization to
administrative credentials authorizing the holder as having met the
standards as a transformational leader.
   (2) How to amend the existing administrative credentialing process
to include demonstration that the standards as a transformational
leader have been met.
   (e) The study shall examine the standards for school leadership to
determine whether they already include the requisite standards for
transformational leadership or whether they should be revised to
include added standards or the deletion of less critical standards.
   (f) The study shall examine and recommend the means by which
administrators seeking the credential or authorization can
demonstrate mastery of the standards necessary to serve as
transformational leaders in schools.
   (g) For purposes of this section, "transformational leadership"
means the body of knowledge and set of skills needed to transform an
organization.
   (h) The commission shall conduct the study between July 1, 2010,
and June 30, 2011, and shall report its findings to the Legislature
by no later than December 31, 2011.
  SEC. 3.  This act shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends
that date.