California Student Teacher Support Grant Program.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on future legislation, only an intent to enact such legislation.

California Student Teacher Support Grant Program

AB-1128 establishes a grant program under the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to compensate teaching credential candidates during their required unpaid student teaching hours, contingent upon funding from the Legislature.

What This Bill Does

• Establishes the California Student Teacher Support Grant Program under the administration of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
• Requires local educational agencies to apply for grants and meet certain criteria, including conducting background checks on candidates.
• Sets stipends for each student teacher equal to the daily substitute teacher rate of their local agency.
• Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to annually report about the grant program's progress.

Who It Names or Affects

• Teaching credential candidates who need to complete unpaid student teaching hours.
• Local educational agencies that will apply for and receive funding from the grant program.

Terms To Know

Clinical practice

The part of a teacher preparation program where students gain hands-on experience by teaching in real classrooms.

Local educational agency (LEA)

An organization, like a school district or charter school, that provides education to students.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill requires funding from the Legislature before it can be implemented.
• It does not specify how much money will be given as grants.

Official Summary Text

AB 1128, as amended, Muratsuchi.
Teacher credentialing: clinical practice: student teacher compensation.
California Student Teacher Support Grant Program.
Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to adopt standards for the accreditation of postsecondary teacher preparation programs. Existing law prescribes “clinical practice” as one of the commission-adopted standards and requires that teaching credential candidates perform 600 hours of clinical practice throughout the candidate’s teacher preparation program, including, as a component of those hours, unpaid student teaching.
This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation of one-time funding by the Legislature, establish the California Student Teacher Support Grant Program, under the administration of the Commission
on Teacher Credentialing, to award grants of an unspecified amount to teaching credential candidates to compensate the candidates while they perform the required student teaching. The bill would require stipends for each student teacher to be equal to the daily substitute teacher rate for the applicant local educational agency, as defined. In administering the grant program, the bill would require the commission to issue a request for applications to all local educational agencies in the state in order to solicit applications for funding. The bill would require the commission to adopt criteria for the selection of local educational agencies to participate in the grant program, including that the applicant local educational agency requires participating teaching credential candidates to pass a criminal background check before participating in the grant program and commit to accomplishing certain criteria, including completing their 600 hours of clinical practice that is required as part of the participant’s
teacher preparation program, as provided. The bill would require the commission to annually report to the education and policy committees of both houses of the Legislature certain information regarding the grant program, as provided.
Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to adopt a framework and general standards for the accreditation of preparation programs teachers and other certificated educators, as provided. Existing law prescribes “clinical practice” as one of the commission-adopted standards and requires that teaching credential candidates perform 600 hours of clinical practice throughout the candidate’s teacher preparation program, including, as a component of those hours, student teaching.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would compensate teaching credential candidates for their work as student teachers.

Current Bill Text

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