BILL ANALYSIS
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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 1374
Author: Brownley (D)
Amended: 3/8/10 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 7-0, 05/05/10
AYES: Romero, Alquist, Hancock, Liu, Price, Simitian,
Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Huff, Vacancy
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 67-0, 1/21/10 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Adult education: teaching credentials
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill recasts and streamlines requirements
for the preliminary and clear Designated Subjects Adult
Education teaching credentials and clarifies that the
changes imposed by this bill do not apply to individuals
who have already earned those credentials.
ANALYSIS :
Existing Law
1.Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC)
to issue credentials for teaching adult education classes
and vocational education classes. The Designated
Subjects Adult Education (DSAE) teaching credential
CONTINUED
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authorizes an individual to teach the subject(s) named on
the credential in courses organized primarily for adults
and in adult education programs administered by
elementary and secondary school districts.
2.Establishes the period of validity for "clear" teaching
and services credentials as the life of the holder
provided the holder submits an application and renewal
fee every five years and meets all professional fitness
(i.e., passes the criminal background check).
3.Establishes the following requirements for the DSEA
teaching credential:
A. Five years or the equivalent of appropriate
experience or education in the subject named on the
credential.
B. Possession of a high school diploma or passage of
an equivalency examination designated by the CTC.
C. The completion of two semester units or passage of
an examination on the principles and provisions of
the United States Constitution.
D. Passage of the state basic skills requirement
(applies only to DSAE credential holders authorized
to teach academic subjects).
4.Requires candidates who wish to renew the DSAE to meet
the following requirements:
A. A valid DSAE teaching credential.
B. Two years of successful teaching as authorized by
the credential.
C. Completion of a program of personalized
preparation as approved by the CTC.
D. The study of health education, as specified.
5.Specifies that the minimum requirements for the clear
designated subjects adult education teaching credential
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shall include the use of computers in an instructional
setting and the study of health education.
This bill:
1.Establishes a two-tiered credential structure for the
DSAE that parallels other teaching and service
credentials issued by the CTC.
2.Established the preliminary DSAE credential as a
three-year credential and specifies different
requirements for the credential on the basis of the
subjects to be taught:
A. For nonacademic subjects:
(1) Three years of adequate, successful, and
recent experience in the subject to be named on
the credential.
(2) Possession of a high school diploma or
passage of an equivalency examination designated
by the CTC.
B. For academic subjects:
(1) A baccalaureate or higher degree from an
accredited institution of higher education that
includes a minimum of 20 semester units, or the
equivalent quarter units, of coursework in the
subject named on the credential.
(2) Passage of the state basic skills
requirement (i.e., passage of the California Basic
Educational Skills Test).
3.Clarifies that DSAE candidates must satisfy the
requirements for teacher fitness, which includes
fingerprinting and passing a criminal background check.
4.Moves the U.S. Constitution requirement to the "clear"
credential and consolidates the requirements for renewing
and clearing the DSAE credential into a single "clear"
DSAE credential:
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A. A valid three-year preliminary DSAE teaching
credential.
B. Two years of successful teaching that is
authorized by the preliminary DSAE credential.
C. Completion of a program of personalized
preparation approved by the CTC.
D. Completion of two semester units or passage of an
examination on the principles and provisions of the
U.S. Constitution.
E. Completion of a program of study in health
education and computer technology.
5.Clarifies that a credential, permit, certificate, or
other document issued by the CTC remains in force in
accordance with the laws and regulations under which it
was issued and is exempt from new laws and regulations
unless the code is specifically amended to the contrary.
6.Makes conforming changes by repealing a code section that
contains duplicative language.
Comments
Need for the Bill ? SB 52 (Scott), Chapter 520, Statutes of
2007, required the CTC to align career technical education
teaching credentials to the sectors identified in the
state's Career Technical Education Model Curriculum
Standards and to convene an advisory committee to review
the requirements for those credentials and make
recommendations for consolidating requirements for
full-time and part-time CTE teachers. Subsequent
legislation, SB 1104 (Scott), Chapter 576, Statutes of
2008, implemented the CTC's recommendations for
streamlining the requirements for the preliminary and clear
Designated Subjects Career Technical Education (DSCTE)
credentials. During that time, the CTC convened a separate
advisory committee to review requirements for adult
education teaching credentials and to make recommendations
for streamlining the DSAE requirements. The reforms
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proposed in this bill reflect the recommendations of the
DSAE advisory committee and will establish continuity
between the two types of designated subjects credentials.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 5/6/10)
California Council for Adult Education
California School Boards Association
Commission on Teacher Credentialing
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the Senate Education
Committee analysis, by reducing the experience requirement
for the preliminary DSAE from five years to three years and
by moving the U.S. Constitution requirement into the clear
credential, this bill will streamline the process by which
candidates may become adult education teachers. The
consolidation of the renewal and clear requirements will
create a two-tiered credential structure for DSAE that
parallels the structure of other credentials. This bill
makes technical changes that conform the basic skills,
health education, technology, and professional fitness
requirements for the DSAE to recent reforms established for
the DSCTE credential.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles Calderon, Chesbro,
Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon, DeVore,
Emmerson, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Fuller,
Furutani, Gaines, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey,
Hernandez, Hill, Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight,
Lieu, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Monning,
Nava, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, V. Manuel Perez,
Portantino, Salas, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Audra
Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Tran,
Villines, Yamada
NO VOTE RECORDED: Blakeslee, Carter, Evans, Galgiani,
Hayashi, Miller, John A. Perez, Ruskin, Saldana, Solorio,
Bass
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CPM:cm 5/6/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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