Bill Text: CA SB614 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Teacher credentialing: reading instruction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-08-20 - August 20 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB614 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB614-Amended.html
Amended
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Assembly
August 10, 2020 |
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Assembly
July 27, 2020 |
Amended
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July 01, 2019 |
Amended
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June 18, 2019 |
Amended
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Senate
May 17, 2019 |
Amended
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Senate
April 11, 2019 |
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Senate
April 01, 2019 |
Introduced by Senator Rubio (Coauthors: Assembly Members Gipson, Quirk-Silva, and Blanca Rubio) |
February 22, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would repeal those requirements, and other requirements relating to the reading instruction competence assessment, and would provide that the reading instruction competence
assessment is not required for the issuance of a teaching credential, as specified.
This bill would require the commission, by July 1, 2022, to ensure that all approved preparation programs instruct and reliably assess candidates to ensure individual competence to deliver and facilitate comprehensive and research-based reading instruction and to adopt, modify, and administer reading instruction assessments aligned with the state’s current adopted curriculum frameworks for specified teacher candidates. The bill, commencing July 1, 2022, for preliminary multiple subject and specialist teaching credentials, and July 1, 2023, for preliminary single subject teaching credentials, would require the requirements for the issuance of those teaching credentials to include either the approved preparation program requirements or the specified reading instruction assessments.
This bill would revise certain provisions relating to internship programs where interns can choose an early program completion option, as provided.
This bill would revise those provisions to require that the study of alternative methods of developing English language skills to also be in accordance with current expectations and requirements for credential candidates. The bill would repeal the provisions requiring the study of reading to include certain components.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(b)Standardized tests in foundational reading have not been found to improve the teaching of reading or pupils’ reading performance over the past 25 years.
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)Passage rates indicate that standardized tests required for licensure exclude otherwise qualified candidates from the teaching profession, with a disproportionate impact on male candidates and candidates of color.
(i)
(j)
(k)
SEC. 2.
Section 44252.6 of the Education Code is amended to read:44252.6.
(a) The commission, no later than July 1, 2007, shall ensure that the California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET): Multiple Subjects be modified to add an assessment of basic writing skills at least as comprehensively and to the level of rigor that basic writing skills are assessed by the state basic skills proficiency test.SEC. 3.
Section 44259 of the Education Code is amended to read:44259.
(a) Except as provided in clauses (i) and (iii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), a program of professional preparation for multiple or single subject teaching credentials shall not include more than two years of full-time study of professional preparation.SEC. 4.
Section 44268.5 of the Education Code is repealed.(a)The Legislature hereby recognizes that teacher competence in reading instruction and literacy is essential to the progress and achievement of pupils learning to read in elementary and secondary schools. It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission ensure that all applicants for multiple subject, single subject, and specialist instruction teaching credentials are prepared to teach reading and literacy within the scope of their certification.
(b)By July 1, 2022,
the commission shall do both of the following:
(1)(A)Ensure, through the accreditation process, that all approved preparation programs instruct and reliably assess candidates, using a program-embedded performance-based measure, to ensure individual competence to deliver and facilitate comprehensive and research-based reading instruction.
(B)The commission shall develop assessment standards, templates, and general guidance for performance-based assessment tools, instruments, and processes that shall be made available to preparation program sponsors to assess candidates as described in subparagraph (A).
(2)Adopt, modify, as necessary, and administer reading instruction assessments aligned with the state’s current adopted curriculum
frameworks for teacher candidates who have not been instructed and assessed to ensure their competence to deliver
and facilitate comprehensive and research-based reading instruction, as described in paragraph (1).
(c)(1)Beginning July 1, 2022, the requirements for the issuance of the preliminary multiple subject or education specialist teaching credential shall include either paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (b).
(2)Beginning July 1, 2023, the requirements for the issuance of the preliminary single subject teaching credential shall include either paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (b).
(d)This section shall not apply to an applicant for an Early Childhood Special Education Certificate or Early Childhood Special Education Credential, which authorizes the holder to provide educational services to children from birth to kindergarten, inclusive, who are eligible for early intervention special education and related services.
(e)Notwithstanding any other law, the passage of the reading instruction competence assessment developed by the commission pursuant to this section, as it read on January 1, 2020, shall not be required for the issuance of a teaching credential.
SEC. 5.
Section 44283 of the Education Code is amended to read:44283.
(a) The Legislature hereby recognizes that teacher competence in reading instruction is essential to the progress and achievement of pupils learning to read in elementary and secondary schools. It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission develop a reading instruction competence assessment to measure the knowledge, skill, and ability of first-time credential applicants who are not credentialed in any state who will be responsible for reading instruction.(d)
SEC. 6.
Section 44283.2 of the Education Code is repealed.SEC. 7.
Section 44283.2 is added to the Education Code, to read:44283.2.
A holder of a preliminary multiple subject credential or a preliminary education specialist credential who was unable to take the reading instruction competence assessment pursuant to Section 44283 as it read on January 1, 2020, due to the closure of assessment centers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and who must complete this requirement in order to earn a professional clear credential, may, if the reading instruction competence assessment is no longer being administered because Section 44283 is inoperative or has been repealed, complete this requirement through successful completion of coursework in reading instruction that meets the commission’s standards.SEC. 8.
Section 44320.3 is added to the Education Code, to read:44320.3.
By July 1, 2024, the commission shall ensure that an approved teaching performance assessment for a preliminary multiple subject credential, as described in Section 44320.2, and for a preliminary education specialist credential, assess candidates for competence in instruction in literacy, including, but not limited to, foundational reading skills, as described in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 44259, in a manner aligned to the commission’s current teaching performance expectations and to the current English Language Arts/English Language Development (ELA/ELD) Framework adopted by the state board.SEC. 7.SEC. 9.
Section 44468 of the Education Code is amended to read:44468.
(a) An internship program, established pursuant to Article 7.5 (commencing with Section 44325) of Chapter 2 or this article, that is accredited by the commission shall provide interns who meet entrance criteria and are accepted to a multiple subject teaching credential program, a single subject teaching credential program, or an education specialist credential program that provides instruction to individuals with mild to moderate disabilities, the opportunity to choose an early program completion option, culminating in a five-year preliminary teaching credential. The early program completion option shall be made available to interns who meet the following requirements:(3)