Bill Text: IA SF2123 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act authorizing the executive director of the board of educational examiners to waive subject assessment requirements for teacher licensure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Independent 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-10 - Subcommittee, Schoenjahn, Dvorsky, and Johnson. S.J. 203. [SF2123 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-SF2123-Introduced.html
Senate File 2123 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY JOHNSON A BILL FOR 1 An Act authorizing the executive director of the board 2 of educational examiners to waive subject assessment 3 requirements for teacher licensure. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 5471XS (1) 86 kh/rj PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 272.7, unnumbered paragraph 2, Code 1 2 2016, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 The executive director of the board may grant or deny license 1 4 applications, applications for renewal of a license, and 1 5 suspension or revocation of a license. The executive director 1 6 shall waive, for not more than two years, the assessment 1 7 requirements established by the board by rule in accordance 1 8 with section 256.16, subsection 1, paragraph "a", subparagraph 1 9 (2), for an applicant who otherwise meets the requirements 1 10 for licensure. A denial of an application for a license, 1 11 the denial of an application for renewal, or a suspension or 1 12 revocation of a license may be appealed by the applicant or the 1 13 practitioner to the board. 1 14 EXPLANATION 1 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 16 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 17 This bill requires the executive director of the board 1 18 of educational examiners to waive, for otherwise qualified 1 19 applicants and for not more than two years, a provision that 1 20 effectively requires applicants for teacher licensure to have 1 21 achieved a minimum score on state=mandated subject assessments. 1 22 Postsecondary institutions that are providing practitioner 1 23 preparation programs which have been approved by the state 1 24 board of education must administer to students enrolled in the 1 25 programs, prior to the students' completion of the program, 1 26 subject assessments. A student cannot successfully complete 1 27 such a program without scoring above the 25th percentile 1 28 nationally. 1 29 The board of educational examiners' rules require that 1 30 an applicant for teacher licensure who completed a teacher 1 31 preparation program on or after January 1, 2013, that was not 1 32 an approved practitioner preparation program at a recognized 1 33 Iowa institution, must provide verification of successfully 1 34 passing the mandated assessments by meeting the minimum score 1 35 set by the department of education. LSB 5471XS (1) 86 kh/rj
