Bill Text: CA AB934 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Commission on Teacher Credentialing: public awareness campaign.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 671, Statutes of 2023. [AB934 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB934-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 05, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 934

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Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi

February 14, 2023

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An act to repeal Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 420) of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 1 of add Section 44224 to the Education Code, relating to English learners. teacher credentialing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 934, as amended, Muratsuchi. English Language Learner Acquisition and Development Pilot Program: repeal. Commission on Teacher Credentialing: public awareness campaign.

Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits, and collect, compile, and disseminate information regarding exemplary practices in supporting and assessing beginning teachers. Existing law establishes the Teacher Residency Grant Program and appropriates funds from the General Fund to the commission to make grants to develop new, or expand, strengthen, or improve access to existing, teacher residency programs that support, among other things, a list of designated shortage fields.

This bill would require the commission to contract with a public relations organization to develop a public awareness campaign that highlights the value and benefits of educational careers in California’s public schools, spanning from prekindergarten and kindergarten to elementary and secondary schools serving pupils in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. The bill would require the campaign to recognize the value of the contributions made by public school teachers, encourage individuals to enter the teaching profession, and include information about available high-quality teacher credentialing pathways and financial supports. The bill would authorize the campaign to include the development and distribution of public service announcements related to teacher recruitment and outreach to high school pupils and college students. The bill would make the implementation of these provisions contingent upon appropriation by the Legislature.

Existing law establishes the English Language Learner Acquisition and Development Pilot Program, under the administration of the State Department of Education, as a 3-year competitive grant pilot project of 25,000 or more English language learners to be conducted during the 2007–08 to 2009–10, inclusive, school years. Under the program, grants are made to local educational agencies, as defined, to identify existing best practices regarding topics including, but not limited to, curriculum, instruction, and staff development for teaching English language learners and promoting English language acquisition and development. The program requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a 13-to-20 member advisory committee, with specified responsibilities.

This bill would repeal the statutes that establish the program.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 44224 is added to the Education Code, to read:

44224.

 (a) For purposes of this section, “campaign” means the public awareness campaign described in subdivision (b).

(b) The commission shall contract with a public relations organization to develop a public awareness campaign that highlights the value and benefits of educational careers in California’s public schools, spanning from prekindergarten and kindergarten to elementary and secondary schools serving pupils in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive.

(c) The campaign shall recognize the value of the contributions made by public school teachers and encourage individuals to enter the teaching profession.

(d) The campaign shall include information about available high-quality teacher credentialing pathways and available financial supports.

(e) The campaign may include, but is not limited to, the development and distribution of statewide public service announcements relating to teacher recruitment and outreach to high school pupils and college students.

(f) (1) The implementation of this section shall be contingent upon an appropriation for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or another statute.

(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the appropriation described in paragraph (1) not exceed nine hundred thousand dollars ($900,000).

SECTION 1.Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 420) of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code is repealed.