Childcare: facility licensure: teacher requirements.

Plain English Breakdown

The exact conditions under which the bill will become inactive are based on specific dates or actions by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, making it unclear without further details.

Childcare: Facility Licensure: Teacher Requirements

AB-753 allows the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue assistant teacher permits for childcare workers with less than full credentials, under certain conditions.

What This Bill Does

• Allows the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to give assistant teacher permits to people who want to assist in teaching young children without full credentials.
• Requires applicants for these permits to have at least six units of higher education related to early childhood development or human development.
• Limits the number of assistant teachers allowed per classroom and site based on specific ratios.
• Makes these permits valid for up to two years but does not allow renewal.
• Requires childcare agencies to report data about their use of assistant teacher permits.

Who It Names or Affects

• Childcare workers who want to assist in teaching young children without full credentials.
• Licensed childcare facilities that employ people with assistant teacher permits.
• The Commission on Teacher Credentialing, which issues these new permits.

Terms To Know

Assistant Teacher Permit

A permit issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing allowing individuals to assist in childcare and early education without full teaching credentials.

Contracting Agency

An organization that hires people to work in licensed childcare facilities, such as a daycare center or preschool.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill will become inactive one year after the Commission on Teacher Credentialing updates its child development permit matrix or by January 1, 2029.
• It is unclear how many childcare workers will apply for assistant teacher permits under these new rules.

Official Summary Text

AB 753, Garcia.
Childcare: facility licensure: teacher requirements.
Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, requires the department to administer childcare and development programs that offer a full range of services to eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age, inclusive.
Existing law, the Early Education Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide an inclusive and cost-effective preschool program.
Those acts authorize a person to serve in an instructional capacity in a childcare and development program or a preschool program if they possess a current credential issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing authorizing teaching service in elementary school or a single-subject credential in home economics, and 12 units in early childhood education or child
development, or both, or 2 years’ experience in early childhood education or a childcare and development program.
This bill would, notwithstanding these provisions, authorize the commission to issue an assistant teacher permit that authorizes the permitholder to assist in the care, development, and instruction of children, subject to specified supervision requirements. The bill would require the applicant to meet specified requirements, including, among others, having at least 6 units from an accredited institution of higher education in early childhood education, child development, or human development, or a combination thereof. The bill would require a contracting agency that employs a person who holds an assistant teacher permit to maintain a copy of the
permitholder’s education plan in their employee file. The bill would prohibit the number of assistant teacher permitholders employed by a contracting agency at one site from exceeding 50% of the number of classrooms at that site. The bill would prohibit a contracting agency from assigning more than one assistant teacher to each classroom. The bill would make these permits valid for no more than 2 years and would prohibit their renewal. The bill would require the commission to implement these provisions by no later than January 30, 2026.
This bill would make these provisions inoperative one year after the implementation of the commission’s revised
child development permit matrix, or January 1, 2029, whichever is later, and would repeal these provisions as of that date.
The bill would authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Director of Social Services, respectively, to require a contracting agency that employs a person who holds an assistant teacher permit to provide data on the number of employees who have been issued an assistant teacher permit pursuant to the above-described provisions, or who
qualified for waivers, as specified. The bill would authorize the collection of this data by survey or by another collection method and require the data be provided as part the contracting agency’s annual plan for its program self-evaluation process, or as part of an existing reporting process, as specified. The bill would also make certain findings and declarations.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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