Teacher credentialing: programs of professional preparation: California State University and community college partnerships.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not mention dual enrollment or concurrent enrollment opportunities for community college students.

Teacher Training Programs: California State University and Community College Partnerships

This bill requires the leaders of California's community colleges and state universities to create a plan that helps more students in rural areas become teachers by expanding online teacher training programs.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Chancellors of California Community Colleges and California State University to develop a plan for better teacher preparation partnerships between their schools.
• The plan must include ways to expand online teacher preparation courses in rural areas, making it easier for students there to become teachers.

Who It Names or Affects

• Students who want to become teachers, especially those in rural areas
• Community colleges and California State University campuses

Terms To Know

Credentialing

The process of getting a certificate or license that shows you are qualified for a job.

Limits and Unknowns

• The plan will only start if there is money from the government to pay for it.
• Some parts of this bill will stop working on January 1, 2033.

Official Summary Text

AB 2580, as amended, Muratsuchi.
Teacher credentialing: programs of professional preparation: California State University and community college partnerships.
Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law authorizes the commission to approve a regionally accredited institution of higher education, as defined, to recommend to the commission the issuance of credentials to persons who have successfully completed a teacher education program of the institution if the program meets the standards approved by the commission. Existing law requires, as a minimum requirement for a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential, the satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation, as provided. Existing law requires professional preparation, including student teaching, to be made available in the upper division course offerings at all California public institutions of
higher learning, except as provided.
This
bill, contingent upon an appropriation for its purposes,
bill
would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the
Chancellor of the
California State University to
develop and implement
develop, on or before July 1, 2027,
a plan to increase
professional teacher preparation
partnerships between California State
University campuses and community
colleges
college districts
that addresses (1) the expansion of online programs of professional preparation
offered by the California State University in partnership with community college districts
to increase access and opportunities for students pursuing teaching careers in rural communities, and (2)
allowing dual enrollment
the expansion of educator preparation pathways
between community
colleges
college districts
and the California State University
for
to include opportunities for concurrent enrollment at the California State University in teacher preparation coursework for community college
students pursuing a teaching credential.
The bill would make implementation of the plan contingent upon an appropriation for its purposes.
The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2033.

Current Bill Text

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