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AB-2275 Teacher credentialing: computer science courses.(2015-2016)

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 11, 2016
Amended  IN  Assembly  March 09, 2016

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2015–2016 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2275

Introduced by Assembly Member Dababneh

February 18, 2016

An act to amend Section 44257 of the Education Code, relating to teacher credentialing.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2275, as amended, Dababneh. Teacher credentialing: computer science courses.
Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue single subject teaching credentials only in specific subjects.
This bill would authorize a person who holds a single subject teaching credential in business, industrial and technology education, mathematics, or science or a designated subjects career technical education teaching credential to teach courses in computer science. science to all pupils.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 44257 of the Education Code is amended to read:

44257.
 (a) The commission shall issue single subject teaching credentials only in the following subjects:
(1) Agriculture.
(2) Art.
(3) Business.
(4) English.
(5) Foreign Language.
(6) Health Science.
(7) Home Economics.
(8) Industrial and Technology Education.
(9) Mathematics.
(10) Music.
(11) Physical Education.
(12) Science.
(13) Social Science.
(b) The commission shall issue the single subject teaching credential in foreign language with an authorization to teach Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish, or any other language that the commission determines is appropriate.
(c) Subjects that are commonly taught in departmentalized classes in California public schools shall be subsumed under the credential categories in subdivision (a).
(d) The commission shall issue single subject teaching credentials in the categories that were identified in Section 44282 as of December 31, 1993, to applicants who were in the process of preparing to earn those credentials before the effective date of the commission’s implementation of subdivision (a).
(e) A person issued a single subject teaching credential in business, industrial and technology education, mathematics, or science or a designated subjects career technical education teaching credential is authorized to teach computer science. science to all pupils, including, but not limited to, pupils enrolled in a general education or college preparatory course or a career technical education pathway.
(f) This section does not prohibit a school district from employing a person to teach computer science who holds a single subject teaching credential in another subject with an authorization to teach computer concepts and applications.