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AB-1119: Rules for Dual Teacher Credentials
This law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to create efficient routes by March 1, 2027, allowing teacher candidates and current teachers to earn two specific types of teaching credentials.
What This Bill Does
- Requires the commission to develop new rules for dual credentialing through the regulatory process.
- Sets a deadline of March 1, 2027, for these rules to be established.
- Creates efficient routes for teacher candidates to earn both a general subject or PK–3 early childhood education specialist instruction credential and an education specialist credential at the same time.
- Allows current teachers with a multiple subject, single subject, or PK–3 early childhood education specialist instruction credential to add an education specialist credential more easily.
- Allows current teachers with an education specialist credential to add a multiple subject, single subject, or PK–3 early childhood education specialist instruction credential.
Who It Names or Affects
- The Commission on Teacher Credentialing
- People training to become teachers (teacher candidates)
- Current teachers holding a multiple subject, single subject, or PK–3 early childhood education specialist instruction credential
- Current teachers holding an education specialist credential
Terms To Know
- Dual Credentialing
- The process of obtaining two specific teaching credentials at the same time or adding a second one.
- Education Specialist Credential
- A credential that allows teachers to work with students who have special learning needs, as specified by existing law.
- Multiple Subject Credential
- A teaching credential for instructors of multiple subjects.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not list the specific steps or costs required to get these new credentials.
- The exact details of how 'efficient routes' will work are still being decided by the commission through the regulatory process.
- No effective date is listed in the provided text, only a deadline for creating the rules.