Teacher licensure; three-year license to teach career and technical education, etc.

Plain English Breakdown

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Three-Year Teaching License for Career and Technical Education

This law allows teachers from accredited higher education institutions to get a three-year license to teach career and technical education or dual enrollment courses at public high schools, provided they meet specific employment and training requirements.

What This Bill Does

• Creates a new type of teaching license that lasts for three years.
• Requires the Board of Education to issue this license to instructors from accredited higher education institutions who are already teaching in specific career and technical education or dual enrollment courses.
• Needs these instructors to complete training on child abuse recognition, emergency first aid, CPR, and AED use.
• Requires continuous employment at their current institution as a condition for keeping the license.

Who It Names or Affects

• Teachers from accredited higher education institutions who want to teach career and technical education or dual enrollment courses in public high schools.
• The Board of Education which issues these licenses.

Terms To Know

career and technical education

Classes that prepare students for jobs or further training after high school.

dual enrollment courses

Courses where high school students can earn college credits at the same time.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if an instructor loses their job at the higher education institution.
• It is unclear how this will affect existing teacher licensing requirements and processes.

Official Summary Text

Teacher licensure; three-year license to teach career and technical education or dual enrollment courses at public high schools.
Requires the Board of Education to provide for the issuance of a three-year license to teach solely career and technical education courses or dual enrollment courses at public high schools in the Commonwealth to any individual who (i) is employed as an instructor by an institution of higher education that is accredited by a nationally recognized regional accreditation body, (ii) is teaching in the specific career and technical education or dual enrollment subject area at such institution in which the individual seeks to teach at a public high school, and (iii) complies with the requirements set forth in relevant law to complete study in child abuse recognition and intervention and certification or training in emergency first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the use of automated external defibrillators. The bill requires the Board to require any such instructor to maintain continuous employment in such position at the institution of higher education as a condition of continued licensure.

Current Bill Text

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
22.1-299.9
, relating to teacher licensure; three-year license to teach career and technical education or dual enrollment courses at public high schools.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered
22.1-299.9
as follows:

§
22.1-299.9
.
Three-year license to teach career and technical education or dual enrollment courses at public high schools
.

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Board shall provide for the issuance of a three-year license to teach solely career and technical education courses or dual enrollment courses at public high schools in the Commonwealth to any individual who (i) is employed as an instructor by an institution of higher education that is accredited by a nationally recognized regional accreditation body, (ii) is teaching in the specific career and technical education or dual enrollment subject area at such institution in which the individual seeks to teach at a public
high
school, and (iii) complies with the requirements set forth in subdivisions D 1 and 3 of §
22.1-298.1
. The Board shall require any such instructor to maintain continuous employment in such position at the institution of higher education as a condition of continued licensure.

2. That the Board of Education shall amend subdivision A 13 of 8VAC20-
23-50
of the Virginia Administrative Code in accordance with the provisions of this act.