Bill Text: CA AB2694 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Teacher credentialing: teacher induction programs: Beginning Teacher Retention and Support Grant.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-13 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2694 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2694
| Introduced by Assembly Member Blanca Rubio |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to add Section 44259.4 to the Education Code, relating to teacher credentialing, and making an appropriation therefor. credentialing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2694, as amended, Blanca Rubio.
Teacher credentialing: teacher induction programs: Beginning Teacher Retention and Support Grant.
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 prescribes the minimum requirements for a clear multiple or single subject teaching credential, including, among other things, the completion of a program of beginning teacher induction.
This bill would appropriate, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, $150,000,000 to would, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its purposes, establish the Beginning Teacher Retention and Support Grant Program under the administration of the Commission on
Teacher Credentialing for purposes of the Beginning Teacher Retention and Support Grant Program, which the bill would establish. Credentialing. The bill would require the commission to allocate grants to beginning teacher induction programs, not to exceed $3,500 per participating teacher, as provided. The bill would require a beginning teacher induction program receiving a grant to use those funds on behalf of a participating teacher for mentor training, stipends for mentor teachers, other beginning teacher induction costs following initial preparation, or for the examination or assessment fee for one administration of the reading instruction competence assessment or a teaching performance assessment. Notwithstanding those uses, the bill would require an institution of higher education to first use the grant funds to
waive tuition fees for the candidate. The bill would prohibit a participating school district, county office of education, charter school, or institution of higher education from charging a fee to a beginning teacher to participate in a beginning teacher induction program.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 44259.4 is added to the Education Code, to read:44259.4.
(a)(b) (1) A grant to a beginning teacher induction program shall not exceed three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500) per participating teacher.
(2) A beginning teacher induction program receiving a grant shall use these funds on behalf of a participating teacher for mentor training, stipends for mentor teachers, other beginning
teacher induction costs following initial preparation, or for the examination or assessment fee for one administration of the reading instruction competence assessment or a teaching performance assessment.
(3) A beginning teacher induction program may use these funds to contract with commission-approved preliminary teacher preparation programs to provide mentoring support for the completion of required assessments.
(4) A participating school district, county office of education,
charter school, or institution of higher education shall not charge a fee to a beginning teacher to participate in a beginning teacher induction program.
(5) Notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (3), an institution of higher education that is awarded grant funds shall first use the grant funds to waive tuition fees for the candidate.
(c) A grant recipient shall not use more than 5 percent of a grant award for program administration costs.
(d) The commission shall award grants according to the following priorities:
(1) Programs with a large number of candidates who have not yet completed the teaching performance assessment or the reading instruction
competence assessment. Programs awarded grant funds based on this priority shall first apply the funds to assist its candidates in completing one or both of those requirements. That assistance includes, but is not limited to, training mentors to support candidates in completing a performance assessment or reading instruction competence assessment, or contracting with commission-approved preliminary teacher preparation programs to provide mentoring support for the completion of required assessments.
(2) Programs with a large number of candidates who pay induction program costs personally.
(e) The commission shall do both of the following:
(1) Enable grant recipients to reallocate unused funding to support existing
candidates when a candidate does not complete, or otherwise leaves, an induction program.
(2) Ensure the beginning teacher induction program is approved by the commission and either meets the commission’s standards for the support of teachers completing teaching performance assessments or is able to contract with a preliminary teacher preparation program to provide that support.
(f)For purposes of making the computations required by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the appropriation made by subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be “General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts,” as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 41202, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, and included within the “total allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes
appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B,” as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41202, for the 2022–23 fiscal year.
