Bill Text: CA AB238 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 238

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Bill Title: California Student Teacher Support Grant Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-07 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Newman. [AB238 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB238-Amended.html

Amended IN Assembly March 14, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 238

Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi

January 13, 2023

An act to add ~~Article 5.3 (commencing with Section 69617.5) to Chapter 2 of Part 42 of Division 5 of Title 3 of~~ Section 44416.5 to the Education Code, relating to teachers.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 238, as amended, Muratsuchi. California Student Teacher Support Grant Program.

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 adopt standards for the accreditation of postsecondary teacher preparation programs. Existing law prescribes “clinical practice” as one of the commission-adopted standards and requires that teaching credential candidates perform 600 hours of clinical practice throughout the candidate’s teacher preparation program, including, as a component of those hours, unpaid student teaching.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature, to improve teacher retention and recruitment in California’s public school system, to create a grant program to compensate student teachers to help alleviate financial stress at an important time in the teacher preparation process. The bill would, contingent upon an appropriation of one-time funding, establish the California Student Teacher Support Grant Program, under the administration of the ~~Student Aid Commission,~~ Commission on Teacher Credentialing, to award grants of an unspecified amount to teaching credential candidates to compensate the candidates while they perform the required student teaching.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 44416.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:

44416.5.
(a) To improve both teacher retention and recruitment in California’s public school system, it is the intent of the Legislature to create a grant program to compensate student teachers in order to help alleviate financial stress at an important time in the teacher preparation process.
(b) Subject to an appropriation of one-time funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute, the California Student Teacher Support Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the commission to compensate teaching credential candidates during the student teaching component of the 600 hours of clinical practice that is required as part of the candidate’s teacher preparation program.

SECTION 1.Article 5.3 (commencing with Section 69617.5) is added to Chapter 2 of Part 42 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education Code, to read:
5.3.California Student Teacher Support Grant Program
69617.5.
(a)To improve both teacher retention and recruitment in California’s public school system, it is the intent of the Legislature to create a grant program to compensate student teachers in order to help alleviate financial stress at an important time in the teacher preparation process.
(b)Subject to an appropriation of one-time funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute, the California Student Teacher Support Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the commission to compensate teaching credential candidates during the student teaching component of the 600 hours of clinical practice that is required as part of the candidate’s teacher preparation program.