CA AB 672

Title: Teacher credentialing: Teacher Credentialing Task Force.
Author: Corey A. Jackson

Summary
AB 672, as amended, Jackson. Teacher credentialing: Teacher Credentialing Task Force. Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. 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 that includes a teaching performance assessment that meets specified requirements and has been approved by the commission, as provided.This bill would require the commission to convene a Teacher Credentialing Task Force, as provided, by no later than March 1, 2024. The bill would require the task force to examine, among other things, the available research on factors that enable and constrain recruitment, credentialing, and retention of a diverse teaching workforce and the experiences of student candidates in various credentialing pathways, as provided, and to report to the appropriate committees of the Legislature, on or before March 1, 2027, on any policy recommendations based on those findings, for increasing the number of, and diversity of, qualified teachers in California. The bill would require the commission to contract with a nationally recognized, neutral, nonpartisan, nonprofit education policy organization to facilitate the task force’s work, including completing the required report.This bill would make these provisions inoperative on March 1, 2031, and would repeal it as of January 1, 2032.

Status
In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Bill Documents
CA AB 672 - 04/18/23 - Amended Assembly
04/18/23 - CA AB 672 (04/18/23 - Amended Assembly)