Experienced Mentor Teacher Stipend Program.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact amount of each stipend.

California Experienced Mentor Teacher Stipend Program

This law creates a new program to give money to experienced teachers who help mentor student teachers in California, contingent on legislative funding.

What This Bill Does

• Creates the Experienced Mentor Teacher Stipend Program under the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
• Gives an unspecified amount of stipends to experienced teacher mentors who work with student teachers.
• Requires the commission to ask local schools for applications and choose which ones get funding based on set criteria.
• Expands an online system for schools to submit information about mentor teachers.
• Needs yearly reports from the commission to the Legislature about how the program is working.

Who It Names or Affects

• Experienced teacher mentors who help student teachers in California.
• Local educational agencies that apply for funding under this program.
• The Commission on Teacher Credentialing, which administers and oversees the program.

Terms To Know

Clinical Practice

Hands-on teaching experience required for teacher certification candidates.

Local Educational Agencies (LEAs)

School districts or other organizations that provide public education in California.

Limits and Unknowns

• The program only works if the Legislature gives one-time funding.
• It is not clear how much money will be available for each stipend.
• Details about the specific criteria for selecting local educational agencies are not provided.

Official Summary Text

AB 2060, as amended, Muratsuchi.
California Teacher
Experienced
Mentor
Grant
Teacher Stipend
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, student teaching.
Existing law establishes the Student Teacher Stipend Program to support prospective educators, as defined, during their completion of 500 or more hours of student teaching, as provided, and
appropriates, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the commission for allocation to support the Student Teacher Stipend Program.
This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation of one-time funding by the Legislature, establish the
California Teacher Mentor Grant Program,
Experienced Mentor Teacher Stipend Program,
under the administration of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, to
expand the Student Teacher Stipend Program to
award
grants
stipends
of
an unspecified amount
$3,000 each
to compensate
teacher
mentors
experienced mentor teachers, as defined,
who mentor student teacher candidates who are in teacher preparation programs, as provided. In administering the
grant program,
Experienced Mentor Teacher Stipend 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.
expand the online
process for local educational agencies, as defined, to submit an experienced mentor teacher’s information, as provided. The bill would require local educational agencies awarded funding under the Experienced Mentor Teacher Stipend Program to also partner with a commission-approved teacher preparation program to create an experienced mentor teacher recruitment and selection process accompanied by planned professional learning and support activities, 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,
Experienced Mentor Teacher Stipend Program,
as provided.

Current Bill Text

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