BILL NUMBER: AB 148 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 10, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Coto
JANUARY 22, 2009
An act to add Section 44270.6 to the Education Code,
relating to education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 148, as amended, 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. Existing law sets forth the minimum
requirements for obtaining both preliminary services credentials and
professional services credentials with a specialization in
administrative services.
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
administrative services credentialing process on
the part of for 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 pupils , who
currently make up 49 percent of California students
pupils , remain one of the least successful
populations in our public schools.
(d) Out of every 100 Latino students
pupils 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) Former United States Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
has cited studies which estimate there will be a 30 percent turnover
in principals over the next three years, and the Association of
California Administrators predicts there will be a 40 percent
turnover in principals in California between 2008 and 2012.
(f)
(g) 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
pupil needs.
SEC. 2.
SEC. 2. Section 44270.6 is added to the Education Code,
to read:
44270.6. (a) The Commission on Teacher Credentialing
shall administer a one-year study that includes recent research
and successful professional development practices to recommend
more effective paths to transformational leadership through the
administrative credential services
credentialing process on the part of
for school principals and leaders.
(b) The study shall define how the transformational leadership
philosophies, knowledge, values, skills, competencies, and
values and competencies can be added as part of
the initial credential process credentialing
process for obtaining a preliminary or clear professional services
credential with a specialization in administrative services and
as an authorization added to an administrative services
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 , behaviors,
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
pupils .
(2) Commit to the success of all students
pupils at high levels.
(3) Prepare all students pupils for
college and other important educational steps beyond high school.
(4) Individualize educational experiences for the unique needs of
each student pupil .
(5) Engage in collaborative professional practices and collective
learning.
(6) Develop and support shared leadership practices.
(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. credentialing
programs to add an authorization in transformational leadership to
administrative services credentials.
(2) How to amend the existing administrative
credentialing process for administrative
services credentials to include demonstration that the
standards as a transformational leader for
transformational leadership 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 add standards or delete
less critical standards.
(f) The study shall examine and recommend the means by which
administrators seeking the credential or authorization can
a person seeking to obtain an administrative services
credential or transformational leadership authorization can
demonstrate mastery of the standards necessary to serve as
transformational leaders in schools.
(g) The study may also include recommendations for leadership
coaching, leadership induction, networking, and seminars, data
tracking, and the relationship between preliminary and professional
clear administrative services credentialing in terms of
transformational leadership.
(g)
(h) For purposes of this section, "transformational
leadership" means the body of knowledge and set of skills needed to
transform an organization.
(h)
(i) 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.