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 02/19/25 - Introduced

 AB-811 Teacher credentialing: computer science instruction: workgroup.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 03/18/2025 09:00 PM

AB811:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 18, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 811

Introduced by Assembly Member Ahrens

February 19, 2025

 An act to amend Sections 44225 and 44259 of, and to add Section 44225.9 to, Section 44257.5 of the Education Code, relating to teacher credentialing. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 811, as amended, Ahrens.
 Teacher credentialing: teaching performance assessments: subject matter competence: prior field experience. computer science instruction: workgroup.

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 issue a single subject teaching credential only in specified subjects and authorizes the commission to issue an authorization to teach a subject other than the one authorized by a single subject teaching credential if the holder of the credential meets certain requirements.

Existing law, upon appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, requires the commission, on or before July 1, 2024, to convene a workgroup on credentialing for instruction in computer science, as provided. Existing law also requires the commission, on or before July 1, 2025, to provide a
 report of the workgroup’s findings and recommendations, as provided. Existing law repeals these provisions as of January 1, 2028.

This bill would extend the above-referenced deadlines by 2 years and delay the repeal date of those provisions by 2 years.

Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials. Existing law requires, as minimum requirements for a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential, (1) the satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation that includes a teaching performance assessment that meets specified requirements and has been approved by the commission, as provided, and (2) verification of subject matter competence, demonstrated through one of various methods, as provided.

This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2029, to establish 2 sets of standards for a teacher candidate’s prior field experience to be used as an alternative education pathway with one for meeting the requirements of a teaching performance
 assessment and one for meeting the requirements for verifying subject matter competence, as provided. On and after January 1, 2029, the bill would require a teacher candidate’s prior field experience that meets the applicable standards developed by the commission to qualify as an alternative education pathway for meeting a teaching performance assessment or for verifying subject matter competence, or both. Until January 1, 2029, the bill would expressly authorize the commission to, on an individual basis, allow for a teacher candidate’s prior field experience to qualify as an alternative education pathway for meeting the requirements of a teaching performance assessment or for verifying subject matter competence, or both.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 44257.5 of the Education Code is amended to read:

44257.5.

 (a) On or before July 1, 2024, 2026, the commission shall convene a workgroup on credentialing for instruction in computer science to do all of the following:

(1) Determine which single subject teaching credentials or designated subjects career technical education teaching credentials, if any, should also authorize teaching computer science.

(2) Determine whether a single subject teaching credential in computer science should be established.

(3) Make recommendations on strategies to meet the workforce demands associated with expanding access to computer science instruction to all pupils.

(b) At least one-half of the workgroup shall be composed of current classroom te