Teacher credentialing: world languages: subject matter examinations: language proficiency assessments.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Sharp-Collins
Last action: 2026-04-14
Official status: Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The specific organizations allowed to provide alternative tests are not detailed in the provided source material.

Teacher Certification: World Languages

This law allows teachers to use certain tests from specific organizations to prove their knowledge of world languages when the state does not have its own test for that language.

What This Bill Does

Allows teachers who want to teach a world language to take a different kind of test if there is no official state test available for that language.
Requires these alternative tests to be from organizations specified by law.
Ensures that teachers can still get their teaching certificates even if they pass an approved test instead of the state's own test.

Who It Names or Affects

Teachers who want to teach world languages in schools
The Commission on Teacher Credentialing, which issues teaching certificates

Terms To Know

Credential: A document that shows a teacher is qualified to teach a certain subject.
Proficiency Assessment: A test that checks how well someone can use and understand a language.

Limits and Unknowns

It's not clear which specific organizations will be allowed to provide these alternative tests.
The bill does not specify what happens if the state decides to create its own test for a world language later on.

Bill History

2026-04-14 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-04-13 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended.
2026-04-09 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 8).
2026-03-23 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
2026-03-19 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-19 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2026-02-21 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 2652, as amended, Sharp-Collins.
Teacher credentialing: world languages: subject matter examinations: language proficiency assessments.
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 issue a single subject teaching credential only in specified subjects, including in world language. Existing law requires the commission to adopt examinations and assessments to verify the subject matter knowledge and competence of candidates for those specified single subject teaching credentials, as provided.
Existing law requires the commission to issue authorizations for a teacher to provide specific services to limited-English-proficient pupils, if certain minimum requirements are met, including the passage of one or more examinations that the commission determines is necessary for demonstrating the knowledge, skills, and language proficiency
required for effective delivery of the services included in the authorization. Existing law authorizes the commission to issue an authorization for bilingual-cross-cultural competence for specified persons who will be serving English language learners and requires candidates for that authorization to demonstrate, by oral and written examination or by completing an approved program, among other things, that the person is competent in both the oral and written skills of a language other than English.
This bill would authorize a candidate for any of the above-described credentials or authorizations to fulfill the applicable subject matter examination or language requirement in a world language for which the commission does not administer a subject matter examination by successfully completing a comparable postsecondary language proficiency
assessment maintained by a specified organization.
assessment.

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