California Teacher Mentor Grant Program.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill's effectiveness is contingent upon funding from the Legislature, but no specific amount or details about criteria for selection of grant recipients are provided.

California Teacher Mentor Grant Program

AB-2060 establishes a grant program to compensate teacher mentors who help student teachers in their preparation programs, contingent upon funding from the Legislature.

What This Bill Does

• Establishes the California Teacher Mentor Grant Program under the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
• Requires the commission to issue requests for applications to all local educational agencies in the state to solicit grant applications.
• Requires the commission to adopt criteria for selecting local educational agencies to participate in the grant program.
• Requires the commission to annually report to legislative committees about the grant program.

Who It Names or Affects

• Teacher mentors who help student teachers in preparation programs.
• Local educational agencies that apply for and receive grants from the program.
• The Commission on Teacher Credentialing, which administers the grant program.

Terms To Know

Commission on Teacher Credentialing

A group that sets rules for teaching certificates and prepares teachers in California.

Local educational agencies

School districts or other groups that run schools in California.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill requires one-time funding from the Legislature, but does not specify an amount.
• It is unclear which local educational agencies will be selected to receive grants and how many will be chosen.
• Details about the criteria for selecting grant recipients are not specified.

Official Summary Text

AB 2060, as amended, Muratsuchi.
Collective bargaining: wages: stipends for mentor teachers.
California Teacher Mentor 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, student teaching.
This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation of one-time funding by the Legislature,
establish the California Teacher Mentor Grant Program, under the administration of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, to award grants of an unspecified amount to compensate teacher mentors who mentor student teacher candidates who are in teacher preparation programs, as provided. 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. 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.
Under existing law, public school employees have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on all matters of employer-employee relations, as provided. Existing law gives public school employee organizations the right to represent their members in their employment relations with public school employers, as defined, and limits the scope of representation to matters relating to wages, hours of employment, and other terms and conditions of employment, as defined. Existing law requires a public school employer or their representatives to meet and negotiate with, and only with, representatives of employee organizations selected as exclusive representatives of appropriate units, upon request, with regard to matters within the scope of representation, as specified.
This bill would expressly provide that wages, for purposes of the above-described collective bargaining provisions, include stipends for mentor teachers.

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