44390.2.
(a) The Technology Education Credential “TEC” Program is hereby established and shall be administered by the commission.(b) The commission shall develop a streamlined teacher credentialing process for professionals from the technology industry, and other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions, to become teachers.
(c) The moneys in the fund shall be used to provide grants to professionals from the technology industry and other STEM professions to become teachers through the streamlined process developed pursuant to subdivision (b).
(d) (1) No more than 5 percent of the moneys in the fund shall be used by the commission to administer this article.
(2) The commission may use an additional 5 percent of the moneys in the fund during the 2018 calendar year to develop the streamlined teacher credentialing process identified in subdivision (b) if the commission develops a work plan and designates a completion date for the development of the streamlined process, provides it to the State Treasurer, and posts it on the commission’s Internet Web site on or before April 1, 2018.