Bill Text: CA AB2275 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Teacher credentialing: computer science courses.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2275 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2275-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2275	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 11, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 9, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dababneh

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to amend Section 44257 of the Education Code, relating to
teacher credentialing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2275, as amended, Dababneh. Teacher credentialing: computer
science courses.
   Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to
issue single subject teaching credentials only in specific subjects.

   This bill would authorize a person who holds a single subject 
teaching  credential in business, industrial and technology
education, mathematics, or science  or a designated subjects
career technical education teaching credential  to teach courses
in computer  science.   science to all pupils.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 44257 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   44257.  (a) The commission shall issue single subject teaching
credentials only in the following subjects:
   (1) Agriculture.
   (2) Art.
   (3) Business.
   (4) English.
   (5) Foreign Language.
   (6) Health Science.
   (7) Home Economics.
   (8) Industrial and Technology Education.
   (9) Mathematics.
   (10) Music.
   (11) Physical Education.
   (12) Science.
   (13) Social Science.
   (b) The commission shall issue the single subject teaching
credential in foreign language with an authorization to teach
Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish, or any other language that
the commission determines is appropriate.
   (c) Subjects that are commonly taught in departmentalized classes
in California public schools shall be subsumed under the credential
categories in subdivision (a).
   (d) The commission shall issue single subject teaching credentials
in the categories that were identified in Section 44282 as of
December 31, 1993, to applicants who were in the process of preparing
to earn those credentials before the effective date of the
commission's implementation of subdivision (a).
   (e) A person issued a single subject teaching credential in
business, industrial and technology education, mathematics, or
science  or a designated subjects career technical education
teaching credential  is authorized to teach computer 
science.   science to all pupils, including, but not
limited to, pupils enrolled in a general education or college
preparatory course or a career technical education pathway. 
   (f) This section does not prohibit a school district from
employing a person to teach computer science who holds a single
subject teaching credential in another subject with an authorization
to teach computer concepts and applications.