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Bill No: SB 941
Author: Senate Education Committee
Amended: 6/30/11
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 10-0, 5/4/11
AYES: Lowenthal, Runner, Alquist, Blakeslee, Hancock,
Huff, Liu, Price, Simitian, Vargas
NO VOTE RECORDED: Vacancy
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SENATE FLOOR : 39-0, 5/23/11 (Consent)
AYES: Alquist, Anderson, Berryhill, Blakeslee, Calderon,
Cannella, Corbett, Correa, De Le�n, DeSaulnier, Dutton,
Emmerson, Evans, Fuller, Gaines, Hancock, Hernandez,
Huff, Kehoe, La Malfa, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Lowenthal,
Negrete McLeod, Padilla, Pavley, Price, Rubio, Runner,
Simitian, Steinberg, Strickland, Vargas, Walters, Wolk,
Wright, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Harman
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/25/11 (Consent) - See last page
for vote
SUBJECT : Teachers: credentialing: technical clean-up
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill corrects technical errors and
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oversights and makes numerous non-controversial and
conforming changes to various provisions of the Education
Code relating to teacher credentialing.
Assembly Amendments make technical changes and correct a
drafting error.
ANALYSIS : This bill corrects technical errors and
oversights, and makes numerous non-controversial and
conforming changes to various provisions of the Education
Code. Specifically, this bill:
1.Replaces the obsolete term "professional clear" with
"clear credential".
2.Specifies that an out-of-state prepared applicant in both
special education and general education, who has earned a
clear California education specialist credential, shall
be granted a clear multiple subject or clear single
subject teaching credential without first holding a
preliminary multiple subject or single subject teaching
credential, unless the Commission on Teacher
Credentialing (Commission) determines that the applicant
does not met other specified requirements.
3.Deletes date references to the Standards of Quality and
Effectiveness for the California Beginning Teacher
Support and Assessment System adopted by the Commission
and to the California Standards for the Teaching
Profession.
4.Authorizes a beginning teacher to "clear" his or her
credential through an approved clear credential program
when a beginning teacher induction program is not
available.
5.Deletes Education Code sections that are outdated and
duplicative of existing code sections relating to
beginning teacher support.
6.Replaces outdated language requiring the Commission to
replace the system of program approval that existed in
1970 when language requiring the Commission to implement
a system on ongoing evaluation and revision of
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accreditation practices.
7.Deletes outdated language pertaining to an external
evaluation of accreditation policies in accordance with
the accreditation framework in effect in 1993 and updates
intent language referring to modification of the
framework.
8.Clarifies National Board Certification and makes the
program consistent by requiring the Commission to issue a
California credential to a teacher who has earned
certification from the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards in an additional single content area.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/25/11 (Consent)
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall,
Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bradford, Brownley,
Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter,
Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson,
Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani,
Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gordon, Grove,
Hagman, Halderman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Roger
Hern�ndez, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones,
Knight, Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor,
Mendoza, Miller, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nestande,
Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez,
Portantino, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson,
Torres, Valadao, Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada,
John A. P�rez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bonilla, Gorell
CPM:cm 8/26/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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