Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue various types of teaching and services credentials, including preliminary and clear multiple and single subject teaching credentials. The commission is also authorized to issue emergency teaching and specialist permits that correspond to specified credential types. Existing regulations provide for procedures by which the commission may issue an Emergency 30-Day Substitute Teaching Permit authorizing the holder to substitute teach, as provided. Existing regulations also authorize a local employing agency to request from the commission that the Teaching Permit for Statutory Leave be used when a teacher of record is unable to provide services due to a statutory leave, as provided.
This bill would require the commission, through a stakeholder process, to determine whether there is a need to provide a person who holds an Emergency 30-Day Substitute Teaching Permit, who is otherwise qualified to receive a Teaching Permit for Statutory Leave, expanded pathways for meeting the requirements of the Teaching Permit for Statutory Leave, and to make regulatory changes as necessary, on or before July 1, 2019.
Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue various types of teaching and services credentials, including preliminary and clear multiple and single subject teaching credentials. The commission is also authorized to issue emergency teaching and specialist permits that correspond to specified credential types. Existing regulations provide for procedures by which the commission may issue a permit authorizing the holder to substitute teach, limiting the holder to not serve as a substitute for more than 30 days for any one teacher in a general education classroom during the school year, or 20 days for any one teacher in a special education classroom during the school year. Existing regulations also authorize a local employing agency to request from the commission that the Teaching
Permit for Statutory Leave be used when a teacher of record is unable to provide services due to a statutory leave, and require the local employing agency to submit to the commission verification that the substitute teacher for whom the Teaching Permit for Statutory Leave is requested has completed 45 hours of pre-service preparation, as provided.This bill would authorize a local educational agency to allow a person authorized to serve as a substitute teacher to substitute teach for up to 60 days in a general education classroom when the teacher of record elects to extend a leave beyond 30 days, and for up to 50 days in a special education classroom when the teacher of record elects to extend a leave beyond 20 days. The bill would require a local educational agency, if it allows a substitute teacher to serve for up to 60 days in a general education classroom
or for up to 50 days in a special education classroom, to apply for a Teaching Permit for Statutory Leave. The bill would require, if a substitute teacher for whom a local educational agency has applied for a Teaching Permit for Statutory Leave has not completed 45 hours of pre-service preparation, the substitute teacher to agree to complete the 45 hours of pre-service preparation before the end of the 60 days in a general education classroom or the 50 days in a special education classroom, as provided.This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2025, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2026.