| 1 | | - | Amended IN Senate June 13, 2022 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 312Introduced by Assembly Member Seyarto ValladaresJanuary 25, 2021 An act to amend Sections 44252 and 44830 of the Education Code, relating to teacher credentialing. add Chapter 2.4 (commencing with Section 32256) to Part 19 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code, relating to school safety.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 312, as amended, Seyarto Valladares. Teacher credentialing: basic skills proficiency test: exemption. School safety: Safe-To-Tell Program.Existing law requires school districts and county offices of education to be responsible for the overall development of comprehensive school safety plans for its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires the schoolsite council, or the school safety committee if so designated, to consult with a representative from a law enforcement agency, a fire department, and other first responder entities in the writing and development of the comprehensive school safety plan, and requires the comprehensive school safety plan and any updates to the plan to be shared with the law enforcement agency, the fire department, and the other first responder entities. Existing law requires the school safety plan to include, among other things, procedures for conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents.This bill would establish the School Safety Division within the State Department of Education for purposes of administering the Sate-To-Tell Program, which the bill would also establish. The bill would require the program to be administered by the Director of School Safety, who would be appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and who would be authorized to hire staff as appropriate. The bill would also establish the Safe-To-Tell Program Advisory Committee within the School Safety Division and would require the committee to annually report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, specified information relating to the program. The bill would establish the Safe-To-Tell Account in the General Fund for purposes of implementing this chapter, and would require funds in the account to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, only for purposes of this chapter. The bill would provide that appropriations from the account shall not count towards satisfying the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.The bill would require the Director of School Safety to implement the program consistent with specified requirements, including, among others, that any person be able to anonymously report any dangerous, violent, or unlawful activity that is being conducted or threatened to be conducted on the property of a local educational agency, as defined, at an activity sponsored by the local educational agency, or on a schoolbus of a local educational agency, and that the program operate a crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address for its purposes. The bill would require the crisis call center to be staffed by individuals with evidence-based counseling and crisis intervention training, to be operational 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and to support and help facilitate a coordinated response by schools, public safety dispatchers, and sworn law enforcement agents to an identified crisis when such a response is to be reasonably expected.The bill would require all information received by the program to be strictly confidential and would require the School Safety Division to develop specified policies and procedures, including policies and procedures that ensure that if a report filed with the program is determined by the director to be a false report, information about the subject of the false report is immediately removed from the subject pupils record, if they are a pupil, including records held by the local educational agency and an individual school, and that the director shall notify any law enforcement agencies previously notified of the report. The bill would require law enforcement agencies notified by the director to remove the report from any records on the subject, unless the report is part of an active criminal investigation. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies and local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would require each local educational agency to establish school-based teams of at least 3 members of the administrative staff at each of its schools for purposes of receiving notice of any report submitted to the program concerning a respective school. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the School Safety Division to maintain a list of points of contact for each school-based team, local law enforcement dispatch, and law enforcement agencies, and to develop and provide training relating to the program, as specified.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other duties, to establish standards and procedures for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law prohibits the commission from issuing initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language by passing the state basic skills proficiency test. Existing law exempts specified applicants from this basic skills proficiency test requirement, including, among others, out-of-state teachers who have passed a basic skills exam in another state, eminence credential applicants who have achieved eminence in a field of endeavor taught or service practiced in the public schools of California, and applicants who achieve scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.This bill would exempt from the basic skills proficiency test requirement an applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as defined, determined by a credential preparation program or the commission, as specified, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. The bill would also exempt an applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in the basic skills through a combination of qualifying coursework, passage of components of the state basic skills proficiency test, and scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOYES Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Chapter 2.4 (commencing with Section 32256) is added to Part 19 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code, to read: CHAPTER 2.4. Safe-To-Tell Program32256. (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Saugus Strong Act.(b) The School Safety Division is hereby established within the department for purposes administering the Safe-To-Tell Program pursuant to this chapter.(c) The School Safety Division shall be administered by the Director of School Safety, who shall be appointed by the Superintendent and who may hire staff as appropriate to implement this chapter.(d) (1) The Safe-To-Tell account is hereby established in the General Fund for purposes of implementing this chapter. Funds in the account shall be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, only for purposes of this chapter.(2) Funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter shall not count toward satisfying the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.32257. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department pursuant to this chapter.(b) The Director of School Safety shall implement the Safe-To-Tell Program consistent with all of the following requirements:(1) (A) The program shall enable any person to anonymously report any dangerous, violent, or unlawful activity that is being conducted or threatened to be conducted on the property of a local educational agency, at an activity sponsored by the local educational agency, or on a schoolbus of a local educational agency.(B) The identity of a person who reports information to the program shall not be known by persons operating the program, shall not be disclosed to any person, and shall remain unknown to persons employed by, contracting with, volunteering with, or otherwise assisting any organization operating any program platform.(C) For purposes of this chapter, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school.(2) (A) (i) The program shall operate a crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address for purposes of the program.(ii) The crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address shall be operated by the School Safety Division or the department may contract, consistent with the requirements of this chapter and state law, with a qualified organization to operate the crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, or email address.(B) The crisis call center shall be staffed by individuals with evidence-based counseling and crisis intervention training and shall be operational 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and shall support and help facilitate a coordinated response by schools, public safety dispatchers, and sworn law enforcement agents to an identified crisis when such a response is to be reasonably expected.(3) The School Safety Division shall develop and implement a triage approach to disseminating anonymous tips based on the severity of the tip.(4) All information received by the program shall be strictly confidential and School Safety Division shall develop policies and procedures to ensure all of the following:(A) All relevant information reported to the program is promptly forwarded to the appropriate public safety agencies and the appropriate school-based teams established pursuant to Section 32259.(B) A person shall not be compelled to produce or disclose any record or information provided to the program except upon a court order.(C) If a report filed with the program is determined by the Director of School Safety to be a false report, information about the subject of the false report shall be immediately removed from the subject pupils record, if they are a pupil, including records held by the local educational agency and an individual school, and the director shall notify any law enforcement agencies previously notified of the report. Law enforcement agencies notified by the director pursuant to this clause shall remove the report from any records on the subject, unless the report is part of an active criminal investigation.32258. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program Advisory Committee is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department.(b) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the committee shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, all of the following information:(1) The total number of tips received for the previous school year.(2) The total number of tips received since the program began, disaggregated by school and each of the following:(A) Tips by type.(B) Method by which the tip was received.(C) The total number of false reports received.(3) The total number of responses to incoming tips disaggregated by disciplinary actions, nondisciplinary actions, and interventions, as well as the gender and race of the pupil subject to the disciplinary action, nondisciplinary action, or intervention.32259. (a) Each local educational agency shall establish school-based teams of at least three members of the administrative staff at each of its schools for purposes of receiving notice of any report submitted to the program concerning the respective school.(b) The School Safety Division shall maintain a list of points of contact for each school-based team, local law enforcement dispatch, and law enforcement agencies.(c) The School Safety Division shall develop and provide training to all of the following:(1) Each member of a school-based team concerning the appropriate response to various types of tips.(2) Pupils and teachers on how to recognize and identify observable warning signs and signals of an individual or peer who may be at risk of harming themselves or others, the importance of taking threats seriously and seeking help, and how to make a report on one of the program platforms.(3) Law enforcement dispatchers as to how to receive notice of any report submitted to the program that requires response from sworn law enforcement.(d) Local educational agencies shall not be additionally liable as a result of their participation in the program.SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code. |
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| 1 | + | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 312Introduced by Assembly Member SeyartoJanuary 25, 2021 An act to amend Sections 44252 and 44830 of the Education Code, relating to teacher credentialing. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 312, as introduced, Seyarto. Teacher credentialing: basic skills proficiency test: exemption.Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other duties, to establish standards and procedures for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law prohibits the commission from issuing initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language by passing the state basic skills proficiency test. Existing law exempts specified applicants from this basic skills proficiency test requirement, including, among others, out-of-state teachers who have passed a basic skills exam in another state, eminence credential applicants who have achieved eminence in a field of endeavor taught or service practiced in the public schools of California, and applicants who achieve scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.This bill would exempt from the basic skills proficiency test requirement an applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as defined, determined by a credential preparation program or the commission, as specified, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. The bill would also exempt an applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in the basic skills through a combination of qualifying coursework, passage of components of the state basic skills proficiency test, and scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 44252 of the Education Code is amended to read:44252. (a) (1) The commission shall establish standards and procedures for the initial issuance and renewal of credentials.(2) (A) The commission shall require an initial or renewal applicant who submits an initial or renewal application for his or her the applicants credential online, as part of the application process, to read and attest by electronic signature a statement that the applicant for the credential understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(B) The commission shall require an initial applicant who submits an application in paper form, as part of the application process, to read and attest by signature a statement that the applicant understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(C) The statement described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall be substantially in the following form:As a documentholder authorized to work with children, it is part of my professional and ethical duty to report every instance of child abuse or neglect known or suspected to have occurred to a child with whom I have professional contact.I understand that I must report immediately, or as soon as practicably possible, by telephone to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency, and will send a written report and any evidence relating to the incident within 36 hours of becoming aware of the abuse or neglect of the child.I understand that reporting the information regarding a case of possible child abuse or neglect to an employer, supervisor, school principal, school counselor, coworker, or other person is not a substitute for making a mandated report to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency.I understand that the reporting duties are individual and no supervisor or administrator may impede or inhibit my reporting duties.I understand that once I submit a report, I am not required to disclose my identity to my employer.I understand that my failure to report an instance of suspected child abuse or neglect as required by the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act under Section 11166 of the Penal Code is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.I acknowledge and certify that as a documentholder, I will fulfill all the duties required of a mandated reporter.(b) The commission shall not issue initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language as provided in Section 44252.5 or 44252.7. The commission shall exempt the following persons from the basic skills proficiency test requirement:(1) A person credentialed solely for the purpose of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program.(2) An applicant for an adult education designated subject credential for other than an academic subject.(3) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination administered by the state where the person is credentialed.(4) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination that has been developed and administered by the school district offering that person employment, by cooperating school districts, or by the appropriate county office of education. School districts administering a basic skills proficiency examination under this paragraph shall comply with the requirements of subdivision (h) of Section 44830. The applicant shall be granted a nonrenewable credential, valid for not longer than one year, pending fulfillment of the basic skills proficiency requirement pursuant to Section 44252.5.(5) An applicant for a child care childcare center permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped if the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(6) The holder of a credential, permit, or certificate to teach, other than an emergency permit, who seeks an additional authorization to teach.(7) An applicant for a credential to provide service in the health profession.(8) An applicant who achieves scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT Test, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.(9) An applicant for an eminence credential to be issued pursuant to Section 44262.(10) (A) An applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as described in subparagraph (B), that is determined by a credential preparation program, or determined by the commission for an applicant not enrolled in a California credential preparation program, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. As used in this section, qualifying coursework means a course or courses of a semester length of at least three units, or the equivalent number of quarter units, taken at a regionally accredited institution of higher education for academic credit that applies toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree. Qualifying coursework does not include professional development or continuing education units, inservice training or workshops, or courses where credits do not apply toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree.(B) (i) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the following courses are sufficient to serve as alternative indicators of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills:(I) For reading proficiency, a course in the subjects of critical thinking, literature, logic, philosophy, reading, rhetoric, or textual analysis.(II) For writing proficiency, a course in the subjects of composition, English, rhetoric, written communications, or writing.(III) For mathematics proficiency, a course in the subjects of geometry, mathematics, quantitative reasoning, or statistics.(ii) A course that does not fall within a subject described in clause (i) may also serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency if the applicant provides documentation in writing from the registrar or relevant department chair of the regionally accredited institution of higher education where the course was taken. The documentation shall state that the course is an indicator of proficiency in the applicable skill or skills. (11) An applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language through a combination of qualifying coursework described in paragraph (10), passage of a component or components of the state basic skills proficiency test described in subdivision (d) of Section 44252.5, and scores described in paragraph (8).(c) (1) The Superintendent shall adopt an appropriate state test to measure proficiency in these basic skills. In adopting the test, the Superintendent shall seek assistance from the commission and an advisory board. A majority of the members of the advisory board shall be classroom teachers. The advisory board also shall include representatives of school boards, school administrators, parents, and postsecondary educational institutions.(2) The Superintendent shall adopt a normed test that the Superintendent determines will sufficiently test basic skills for purposes of this section.(3) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and approved teacher training institutions, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this section.(d) This section does not require the holders of, or applicants for, a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test unless the requirements for the specific credential required the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of a school district, or the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or the a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs a holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency criteria for the holders of these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(e) The commission shall compile data regarding the rate of passing the state basic skills proficiency test by persons who have been trained in various institutions of higher education. The data shall be available to members of the public, including to persons who intend to enroll in teacher education programs.(f) (1) Each applicant to an approved credential program, unless exempted by subdivision (b), shall take the state basic skills proficiency test in order to provide both the prospective applicant and the program with information regarding the proficiency level of the applicant. Test results shall be forwarded to each California postsecondary educational institution to which the applicant has applied. The program shall use test results to ensure that, upon admission, each applicant receives appropriate academic assistance necessary to pass the state basic skills proficiency test. Persons residing outside the state shall take the test no later than the second available administration following their enrollment in a credential program.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that applicants for admission to teacher preparation programs not be denied admission on the basis of state basic skills proficiency test results.SEC. 2. Section 44830 of the Education Code is amended to read:44830. (a) The governing board of a school district shall employ for positions requiring certification qualifications, only persons who possess the qualifications for those positions prescribed by law. It is contrary to the public policy of this state for a person or persons charged, by the governing boards, with the responsibility of recommending persons for employment by the boards to refuse or to fail to do so for reasons of race, color, religious creed, sex, or national origin of the applicants for that employment.(b) (1) The governing board of a school district shall not initially hire on a permanent, temporary, or substitute basis a certificated person seeking employment in the capacity designated in his or her the certificated persons credential unless that person has demonstrated basic skills proficiency as provided in Section 44252.5 or is exempted exempt from the requirement by subdivision (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), or (k). (l).(1)(A) The governing board of a school district, with the authorization of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, commission, may administer the state basic skills proficiency test required under Sections 44252 and 44252.5.(2)(B) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and local governing boards, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this subdivision.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that in effectively implementing this subdivision, the governing boards of school districts shall direct superintendents of schools to prepare for emergencies by developing a pool of qualified emergency substitute teachers. This preparation shall include public notice of the test requirements and of the dates and locations of administrations of the tests. The governing board of a school district shall make special efforts to encourage individuals who are known to be qualified in other respects as substitutes to take the state basic skills proficiency test at its earliest administration.(3) Demonstration of proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics by a person pursuant to Section 44252 satisfies the requirements of this subdivision.(c) A certificated person is not required to take the state basic skills proficiency examination if he or she the certificated person has taken and passed it at least once, achieved a passing score on any of the tests specified in subdivision (b) of Section 44252, or possessed a credential before the enactment of the statute that made the test a requirement.(d) This section does not require a person employed solely for purposes of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program, approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards Division of the Department of Industrial Relations, to pass the state proficiency assessment instrument as a condition of employment.(e) This section does not require the holder of a child care childcare permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped to take the state basic skills proficiency test, so long as the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(f) This section does not require the holder of a credential issued by the commission who seeks an additional credential or authorization to teach, to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(g) This section does not require the holder of a credential to provide service in the health profession to take the state basic skills proficiency test if that person does not teach in the public schools.(h) This section does not require the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test as a condition of employment unless the requirements for the specific credential require the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of each a school district, or each the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or each a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency for these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(i) This section does not require the holder of a preliminary or clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test.(j) This section does not require certificated personnel employed under a foreign exchange program to take the state basic skills proficiency test. The maximum period of exemption under this subdivision shall be one year.(k) This section does not require a credential applicant who qualifies for an exemption described in paragraph (10) or (11) of subdivision (b) of Section 44252 to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(k) (l) Notwithstanding any other law, a school district or county office of education may hire certificated personnel who have not taken the state basic skills proficiency test if that person has not yet been afforded the opportunity to take the test. The person shall take the test at the earliest opportunity and may remain employed by the school district pending the receipt of his or her the persons test results. |
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| 3 | | - | Amended IN Senate June 13, 2022 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 312Introduced by Assembly Member Seyarto ValladaresJanuary 25, 2021 An act to amend Sections 44252 and 44830 of the Education Code, relating to teacher credentialing. add Chapter 2.4 (commencing with Section 32256) to Part 19 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code, relating to school safety.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 312, as amended, Seyarto Valladares. Teacher credentialing: basic skills proficiency test: exemption. School safety: Safe-To-Tell Program.Existing law requires school districts and county offices of education to be responsible for the overall development of comprehensive school safety plans for its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires the schoolsite council, or the school safety committee if so designated, to consult with a representative from a law enforcement agency, a fire department, and other first responder entities in the writing and development of the comprehensive school safety plan, and requires the comprehensive school safety plan and any updates to the plan to be shared with the law enforcement agency, the fire department, and the other first responder entities. Existing law requires the school safety plan to include, among other things, procedures for conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents.This bill would establish the School Safety Division within the State Department of Education for purposes of administering the Sate-To-Tell Program, which the bill would also establish. The bill would require the program to be administered by the Director of School Safety, who would be appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and who would be authorized to hire staff as appropriate. The bill would also establish the Safe-To-Tell Program Advisory Committee within the School Safety Division and would require the committee to annually report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, specified information relating to the program. The bill would establish the Safe-To-Tell Account in the General Fund for purposes of implementing this chapter, and would require funds in the account to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, only for purposes of this chapter. The bill would provide that appropriations from the account shall not count towards satisfying the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.The bill would require the Director of School Safety to implement the program consistent with specified requirements, including, among others, that any person be able to anonymously report any dangerous, violent, or unlawful activity that is being conducted or threatened to be conducted on the property of a local educational agency, as defined, at an activity sponsored by the local educational agency, or on a schoolbus of a local educational agency, and that the program operate a crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address for its purposes. The bill would require the crisis call center to be staffed by individuals with evidence-based counseling and crisis intervention training, to be operational 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and to support and help facilitate a coordinated response by schools, public safety dispatchers, and sworn law enforcement agents to an identified crisis when such a response is to be reasonably expected.The bill would require all information received by the program to be strictly confidential and would require the School Safety Division to develop specified policies and procedures, including policies and procedures that ensure that if a report filed with the program is determined by the director to be a false report, information about the subject of the false report is immediately removed from the subject pupils record, if they are a pupil, including records held by the local educational agency and an individual school, and that the director shall notify any law enforcement agencies previously notified of the report. The bill would require law enforcement agencies notified by the director to remove the report from any records on the subject, unless the report is part of an active criminal investigation. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies and local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would require each local educational agency to establish school-based teams of at least 3 members of the administrative staff at each of its schools for purposes of receiving notice of any report submitted to the program concerning a respective school. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the School Safety Division to maintain a list of points of contact for each school-based team, local law enforcement dispatch, and law enforcement agencies, and to develop and provide training relating to the program, as specified.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other duties, to establish standards and procedures for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law prohibits the commission from issuing initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language by passing the state basic skills proficiency test. Existing law exempts specified applicants from this basic skills proficiency test requirement, including, among others, out-of-state teachers who have passed a basic skills exam in another state, eminence credential applicants who have achieved eminence in a field of endeavor taught or service practiced in the public schools of California, and applicants who achieve scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.This bill would exempt from the basic skills proficiency test requirement an applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as defined, determined by a credential preparation program or the commission, as specified, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. The bill would also exempt an applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in the basic skills through a combination of qualifying coursework, passage of components of the state basic skills proficiency test, and scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOYES |
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| 3 | + | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 312Introduced by Assembly Member SeyartoJanuary 25, 2021 An act to amend Sections 44252 and 44830 of the Education Code, relating to teacher credentialing. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 312, as introduced, Seyarto. Teacher credentialing: basic skills proficiency test: exemption.Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other duties, to establish standards and procedures for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law prohibits the commission from issuing initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language by passing the state basic skills proficiency test. Existing law exempts specified applicants from this basic skills proficiency test requirement, including, among others, out-of-state teachers who have passed a basic skills exam in another state, eminence credential applicants who have achieved eminence in a field of endeavor taught or service practiced in the public schools of California, and applicants who achieve scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.This bill would exempt from the basic skills proficiency test requirement an applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as defined, determined by a credential preparation program or the commission, as specified, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. The bill would also exempt an applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in the basic skills through a combination of qualifying coursework, passage of components of the state basic skills proficiency test, and scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO |
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| 28 | | - | Existing law requires school districts and county offices of education to be responsible for the overall development of comprehensive school safety plans for its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires the schoolsite council, or the school safety committee if so designated, to consult with a representative from a law enforcement agency, a fire department, and other first responder entities in the writing and development of the comprehensive school safety plan, and requires the comprehensive school safety plan and any updates to the plan to be shared with the law enforcement agency, the fire department, and the other first responder entities. Existing law requires the school safety plan to include, among other things, procedures for conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents.This bill would establish the School Safety Division within the State Department of Education for purposes of administering the Sate-To-Tell Program, which the bill would also establish. The bill would require the program to be administered by the Director of School Safety, who would be appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and who would be authorized to hire staff as appropriate. The bill would also establish the Safe-To-Tell Program Advisory Committee within the School Safety Division and would require the committee to annually report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, specified information relating to the program. The bill would establish the Safe-To-Tell Account in the General Fund for purposes of implementing this chapter, and would require funds in the account to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, only for purposes of this chapter. The bill would provide that appropriations from the account shall not count towards satisfying the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.The bill would require the Director of School Safety to implement the program consistent with specified requirements, including, among others, that any person be able to anonymously report any dangerous, violent, or unlawful activity that is being conducted or threatened to be conducted on the property of a local educational agency, as defined, at an activity sponsored by the local educational agency, or on a schoolbus of a local educational agency, and that the program operate a crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address for its purposes. The bill would require the crisis call center to be staffed by individuals with evidence-based counseling and crisis intervention training, to be operational 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and to support and help facilitate a coordinated response by schools, public safety dispatchers, and sworn law enforcement agents to an identified crisis when such a response is to be reasonably expected.The bill would require all information received by the program to be strictly confidential and would require the School Safety Division to develop specified policies and procedures, including policies and procedures that ensure that if a report filed with the program is determined by the director to be a false report, information about the subject of the false report is immediately removed from the subject pupils record, if they are a pupil, including records held by the local educational agency and an individual school, and that the director shall notify any law enforcement agencies previously notified of the report. The bill would require law enforcement agencies notified by the director to remove the report from any records on the subject, unless the report is part of an active criminal investigation. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies and local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would require each local educational agency to establish school-based teams of at least 3 members of the administrative staff at each of its schools for purposes of receiving notice of any report submitted to the program concerning a respective school. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the School Safety Division to maintain a list of points of contact for each school-based team, local law enforcement dispatch, and law enforcement agencies, and to develop and provide training relating to the program, as specified.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other duties, to establish standards and procedures for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law prohibits the commission from issuing initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language by passing the state basic skills proficiency test. Existing law exempts specified applicants from this basic skills proficiency test requirement, including, among others, out-of-state teachers who have passed a basic skills exam in another state, eminence credential applicants who have achieved eminence in a field of endeavor taught or service practiced in the public schools of California, and applicants who achieve scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.This bill would exempt from the basic skills proficiency test requirement an applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as defined, determined by a credential preparation program or the commission, as specified, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. The bill would also exempt an applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in the basic skills through a combination of qualifying coursework, passage of components of the state basic skills proficiency test, and scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University. |
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| 32 | | - | This bill would establish the School Safety Division within the State Department of Education for purposes of administering the Sate-To-Tell Program, which the bill would also establish. The bill would require the program to be administered by the Director of School Safety, who would be appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and who would be authorized to hire staff as appropriate. The bill would also establish the Safe-To-Tell Program Advisory Committee within the School Safety Division and would require the committee to annually report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, specified information relating to the program. The bill would establish the Safe-To-Tell Account in the General Fund for purposes of implementing this chapter, and would require funds in the account to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, only for purposes of this chapter. The bill would provide that appropriations from the account shall not count towards satisfying the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. |
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| 28 | + | Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other duties, to establish standards and procedures for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law prohibits the commission from issuing initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language by passing the state basic skills proficiency test. Existing law exempts specified applicants from this basic skills proficiency test requirement, including, among others, out-of-state teachers who have passed a basic skills exam in another state, eminence credential applicants who have achieved eminence in a field of endeavor taught or service practiced in the public schools of California, and applicants who achieve scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.This bill would exempt from the basic skills proficiency test requirement an applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as defined, determined by a credential preparation program or the commission, as specified, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. The bill would also exempt an applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in the basic skills through a combination of qualifying coursework, passage of components of the state basic skills proficiency test, and scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT English and mathematics tests, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University. |
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| 56 | | - | The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Chapter 2.4 (commencing with Section 32256) is added to Part 19 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code, to read: CHAPTER 2.4. Safe-To-Tell Program32256. (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Saugus Strong Act.(b) The School Safety Division is hereby established within the department for purposes administering the Safe-To-Tell Program pursuant to this chapter.(c) The School Safety Division shall be administered by the Director of School Safety, who shall be appointed by the Superintendent and who may hire staff as appropriate to implement this chapter.(d) (1) The Safe-To-Tell account is hereby established in the General Fund for purposes of implementing this chapter. Funds in the account shall be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, only for purposes of this chapter.(2) Funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter shall not count toward satisfying the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.32257. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department pursuant to this chapter.(b) The Director of School Safety shall implement the Safe-To-Tell Program consistent with all of the following requirements:(1) (A) The program shall enable any person to anonymously report any dangerous, violent, or unlawful activity that is being conducted or threatened to be conducted on the property of a local educational agency, at an activity sponsored by the local educational agency, or on a schoolbus of a local educational agency.(B) The identity of a person who reports information to the program shall not be known by persons operating the program, shall not be disclosed to any person, and shall remain unknown to persons employed by, contracting with, volunteering with, or otherwise assisting any organization operating any program platform.(C) For purposes of this chapter, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school.(2) (A) (i) The program shall operate a crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address for purposes of the program.(ii) The crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address shall be operated by the School Safety Division or the department may contract, consistent with the requirements of this chapter and state law, with a qualified organization to operate the crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, or email address.(B) The crisis call center shall be staffed by individuals with evidence-based counseling and crisis intervention training and shall be operational 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and shall support and help facilitate a coordinated response by schools, public safety dispatchers, and sworn law enforcement agents to an identified crisis when such a response is to be reasonably expected.(3) The School Safety Division shall develop and implement a triage approach to disseminating anonymous tips based on the severity of the tip.(4) All information received by the program shall be strictly confidential and School Safety Division shall develop policies and procedures to ensure all of the following:(A) All relevant information reported to the program is promptly forwarded to the appropriate public safety agencies and the appropriate school-based teams established pursuant to Section 32259.(B) A person shall not be compelled to produce or disclose any record or information provided to the program except upon a court order.(C) If a report filed with the program is determined by the Director of School Safety to be a false report, information about the subject of the false report shall be immediately removed from the subject pupils record, if they are a pupil, including records held by the local educational agency and an individual school, and the director shall notify any law enforcement agencies previously notified of the report. Law enforcement agencies notified by the director pursuant to this clause shall remove the report from any records on the subject, unless the report is part of an active criminal investigation.32258. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program Advisory Committee is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department.(b) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the committee shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, all of the following information:(1) The total number of tips received for the previous school year.(2) The total number of tips received since the program began, disaggregated by school and each of the following:(A) Tips by type.(B) Method by which the tip was received.(C) The total number of false reports received.(3) The total number of responses to incoming tips disaggregated by disciplinary actions, nondisciplinary actions, and interventions, as well as the gender and race of the pupil subject to the disciplinary action, nondisciplinary action, or intervention.32259. (a) Each local educational agency shall establish school-based teams of at least three members of the administrative staff at each of its schools for purposes of receiving notice of any report submitted to the program concerning the respective school.(b) The School Safety Division shall maintain a list of points of contact for each school-based team, local law enforcement dispatch, and law enforcement agencies.(c) The School Safety Division shall develop and provide training to all of the following:(1) Each member of a school-based team concerning the appropriate response to various types of tips.(2) Pupils and teachers on how to recognize and identify observable warning signs and signals of an individual or peer who may be at risk of harming themselves or others, the importance of taking threats seriously and seeking help, and how to make a report on one of the program platforms.(3) Law enforcement dispatchers as to how to receive notice of any report submitted to the program that requires response from sworn law enforcement.(d) Local educational agencies shall not be additionally liable as a result of their participation in the program.SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code. |
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| 38 | + | The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 44252 of the Education Code is amended to read:44252. (a) (1) The commission shall establish standards and procedures for the initial issuance and renewal of credentials.(2) (A) The commission shall require an initial or renewal applicant who submits an initial or renewal application for his or her the applicants credential online, as part of the application process, to read and attest by electronic signature a statement that the applicant for the credential understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(B) The commission shall require an initial applicant who submits an application in paper form, as part of the application process, to read and attest by signature a statement that the applicant understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(C) The statement described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall be substantially in the following form:As a documentholder authorized to work with children, it is part of my professional and ethical duty to report every instance of child abuse or neglect known or suspected to have occurred to a child with whom I have professional contact.I understand that I must report immediately, or as soon as practicably possible, by telephone to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency, and will send a written report and any evidence relating to the incident within 36 hours of becoming aware of the abuse or neglect of the child.I understand that reporting the information regarding a case of possible child abuse or neglect to an employer, supervisor, school principal, school counselor, coworker, or other person is not a substitute for making a mandated report to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency.I understand that the reporting duties are individual and no supervisor or administrator may impede or inhibit my reporting duties.I understand that once I submit a report, I am not required to disclose my identity to my employer.I understand that my failure to report an instance of suspected child abuse or neglect as required by the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act under Section 11166 of the Penal Code is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.I acknowledge and certify that as a documentholder, I will fulfill all the duties required of a mandated reporter.(b) The commission shall not issue initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language as provided in Section 44252.5 or 44252.7. The commission shall exempt the following persons from the basic skills proficiency test requirement:(1) A person credentialed solely for the purpose of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program.(2) An applicant for an adult education designated subject credential for other than an academic subject.(3) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination administered by the state where the person is credentialed.(4) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination that has been developed and administered by the school district offering that person employment, by cooperating school districts, or by the appropriate county office of education. School districts administering a basic skills proficiency examination under this paragraph shall comply with the requirements of subdivision (h) of Section 44830. The applicant shall be granted a nonrenewable credential, valid for not longer than one year, pending fulfillment of the basic skills proficiency requirement pursuant to Section 44252.5.(5) An applicant for a child care childcare center permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped if the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(6) The holder of a credential, permit, or certificate to teach, other than an emergency permit, who seeks an additional authorization to teach.(7) An applicant for a credential to provide service in the health profession.(8) An applicant who achieves scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT Test, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.(9) An applicant for an eminence credential to be issued pursuant to Section 44262.(10) (A) An applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as described in subparagraph (B), that is determined by a credential preparation program, or determined by the commission for an applicant not enrolled in a California credential preparation program, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. As used in this section, qualifying coursework means a course or courses of a semester length of at least three units, or the equivalent number of quarter units, taken at a regionally accredited institution of higher education for academic credit that applies toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree. Qualifying coursework does not include professional development or continuing education units, inservice training or workshops, or courses where credits do not apply toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree.(B) (i) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the following courses are sufficient to serve as alternative indicators of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills:(I) For reading proficiency, a course in the subjects of critical thinking, literature, logic, philosophy, reading, rhetoric, or textual analysis.(II) For writing proficiency, a course in the subjects of composition, English, rhetoric, written communications, or writing.(III) For mathematics proficiency, a course in the subjects of geometry, mathematics, quantitative reasoning, or statistics.(ii) A course that does not fall within a subject described in clause (i) may also serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency if the applicant provides documentation in writing from the registrar or relevant department chair of the regionally accredited institution of higher education where the course was taken. The documentation shall state that the course is an indicator of proficiency in the applicable skill or skills. (11) An applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language through a combination of qualifying coursework described in paragraph (10), passage of a component or components of the state basic skills proficiency test described in subdivision (d) of Section 44252.5, and scores described in paragraph (8).(c) (1) The Superintendent shall adopt an appropriate state test to measure proficiency in these basic skills. In adopting the test, the Superintendent shall seek assistance from the commission and an advisory board. A majority of the members of the advisory board shall be classroom teachers. The advisory board also shall include representatives of school boards, school administrators, parents, and postsecondary educational institutions.(2) The Superintendent shall adopt a normed test that the Superintendent determines will sufficiently test basic skills for purposes of this section.(3) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and approved teacher training institutions, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this section.(d) This section does not require the holders of, or applicants for, a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test unless the requirements for the specific credential required the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of a school district, or the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or the a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs a holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency criteria for the holders of these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(e) The commission shall compile data regarding the rate of passing the state basic skills proficiency test by persons who have been trained in various institutions of higher education. The data shall be available to members of the public, including to persons who intend to enroll in teacher education programs.(f) (1) Each applicant to an approved credential program, unless exempted by subdivision (b), shall take the state basic skills proficiency test in order to provide both the prospective applicant and the program with information regarding the proficiency level of the applicant. Test results shall be forwarded to each California postsecondary educational institution to which the applicant has applied. The program shall use test results to ensure that, upon admission, each applicant receives appropriate academic assistance necessary to pass the state basic skills proficiency test. Persons residing outside the state shall take the test no later than the second available administration following their enrollment in a credential program.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that applicants for admission to teacher preparation programs not be denied admission on the basis of state basic skills proficiency test results.SEC. 2. Section 44830 of the Education Code is amended to read:44830. (a) The governing board of a school district shall employ for positions requiring certification qualifications, only persons who possess the qualifications for those positions prescribed by law. It is contrary to the public policy of this state for a person or persons charged, by the governing boards, with the responsibility of recommending persons for employment by the boards to refuse or to fail to do so for reasons of race, color, religious creed, sex, or national origin of the applicants for that employment.(b) (1) The governing board of a school district shall not initially hire on a permanent, temporary, or substitute basis a certificated person seeking employment in the capacity designated in his or her the certificated persons credential unless that person has demonstrated basic skills proficiency as provided in Section 44252.5 or is exempted exempt from the requirement by subdivision (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), or (k). (l).(1)(A) The governing board of a school district, with the authorization of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, commission, may administer the state basic skills proficiency test required under Sections 44252 and 44252.5.(2)(B) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and local governing boards, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this subdivision.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that in effectively implementing this subdivision, the governing boards of school districts shall direct superintendents of schools to prepare for emergencies by developing a pool of qualified emergency substitute teachers. This preparation shall include public notice of the test requirements and of the dates and locations of administrations of the tests. The governing board of a school district shall make special efforts to encourage individuals who are known to be qualified in other respects as substitutes to take the state basic skills proficiency test at its earliest administration.(3) Demonstration of proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics by a person pursuant to Section 44252 satisfies the requirements of this subdivision.(c) A certificated person is not required to take the state basic skills proficiency examination if he or she the certificated person has taken and passed it at least once, achieved a passing score on any of the tests specified in subdivision (b) of Section 44252, or possessed a credential before the enactment of the statute that made the test a requirement.(d) This section does not require a person employed solely for purposes of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program, approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards Division of the Department of Industrial Relations, to pass the state proficiency assessment instrument as a condition of employment.(e) This section does not require the holder of a child care childcare permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped to take the state basic skills proficiency test, so long as the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(f) This section does not require the holder of a credential issued by the commission who seeks an additional credential or authorization to teach, to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(g) This section does not require the holder of a credential to provide service in the health profession to take the state basic skills proficiency test if that person does not teach in the public schools.(h) This section does not require the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test as a condition of employment unless the requirements for the specific credential require the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of each a school district, or each the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or each a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency for these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(i) This section does not require the holder of a preliminary or clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test.(j) This section does not require certificated personnel employed under a foreign exchange program to take the state basic skills proficiency test. The maximum period of exemption under this subdivision shall be one year.(k) This section does not require a credential applicant who qualifies for an exemption described in paragraph (10) or (11) of subdivision (b) of Section 44252 to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(k) (l) Notwithstanding any other law, a school district or county office of education may hire certificated personnel who have not taken the state basic skills proficiency test if that person has not yet been afforded the opportunity to take the test. The person shall take the test at the earliest opportunity and may remain employed by the school district pending the receipt of his or her the persons test results. |
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| 62 | | - | SECTION 1. Chapter 2.4 (commencing with Section 32256) is added to Part 19 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code, to read: CHAPTER 2.4. Safe-To-Tell Program32256. (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Saugus Strong Act.(b) The School Safety Division is hereby established within the department for purposes administering the Safe-To-Tell Program pursuant to this chapter.(c) The School Safety Division shall be administered by the Director of School Safety, who shall be appointed by the Superintendent and who may hire staff as appropriate to implement this chapter.(d) (1) The Safe-To-Tell account is hereby established in the General Fund for purposes of implementing this chapter. Funds in the account shall be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, only for purposes of this chapter.(2) Funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter shall not count toward satisfying the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.32257. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department pursuant to this chapter.(b) The Director of School Safety shall implement the Safe-To-Tell Program consistent with all of the following requirements:(1) (A) The program shall enable any person to anonymously report any dangerous, violent, or unlawful activity that is being conducted or threatened to be conducted on the property of a local educational agency, at an activity sponsored by the local educational agency, or on a schoolbus of a local educational agency.(B) The identity of a person who reports information to the program shall not be known by persons operating the program, shall not be disclosed to any person, and shall remain unknown to persons employed by, contracting with, volunteering with, or otherwise assisting any organization operating any program platform.(C) For purposes of this chapter, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school.(2) (A) (i) The program shall operate a crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address for purposes of the program.(ii) The crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address shall be operated by the School Safety Division or the department may contract, consistent with the requirements of this chapter and state law, with a qualified organization to operate the crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, or email address.(B) The crisis call center shall be staffed by individuals with evidence-based counseling and crisis intervention training and shall be operational 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and shall support and help facilitate a coordinated response by schools, public safety dispatchers, and sworn law enforcement agents to an identified crisis when such a response is to be reasonably expected.(3) The School Safety Division shall develop and implement a triage approach to disseminating anonymous tips based on the severity of the tip.(4) All information received by the program shall be strictly confidential and School Safety Division shall develop policies and procedures to ensure all of the following:(A) All relevant information reported to the program is promptly forwarded to the appropriate public safety agencies and the appropriate school-based teams established pursuant to Section 32259.(B) A person shall not be compelled to produce or disclose any record or information provided to the program except upon a court order.(C) If a report filed with the program is determined by the Director of School Safety to be a false report, information about the subject of the false report shall be immediately removed from the subject pupils record, if they are a pupil, including records held by the local educational agency and an individual school, and the director shall notify any law enforcement agencies previously notified of the report. Law enforcement agencies notified by the director pursuant to this clause shall remove the report from any records on the subject, unless the report is part of an active criminal investigation.32258. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program Advisory Committee is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department.(b) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the committee shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, all of the following information:(1) The total number of tips received for the previous school year.(2) The total number of tips received since the program began, disaggregated by school and each of the following:(A) Tips by type.(B) Method by which the tip was received.(C) The total number of false reports received.(3) The total number of responses to incoming tips disaggregated by disciplinary actions, nondisciplinary actions, and interventions, as well as the gender and race of the pupil subject to the disciplinary action, nondisciplinary action, or intervention.32259. (a) Each local educational agency shall establish school-based teams of at least three members of the administrative staff at each of its schools for purposes of receiving notice of any report submitted to the program concerning the respective school.(b) The School Safety Division shall maintain a list of points of contact for each school-based team, local law enforcement dispatch, and law enforcement agencies.(c) The School Safety Division shall develop and provide training to all of the following:(1) Each member of a school-based team concerning the appropriate response to various types of tips.(2) Pupils and teachers on how to recognize and identify observable warning signs and signals of an individual or peer who may be at risk of harming themselves or others, the importance of taking threats seriously and seeking help, and how to make a report on one of the program platforms.(3) Law enforcement dispatchers as to how to receive notice of any report submitted to the program that requires response from sworn law enforcement.(d) Local educational agencies shall not be additionally liable as a result of their participation in the program. |
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| 44 | + | SECTION 1. Section 44252 of the Education Code is amended to read:44252. (a) (1) The commission shall establish standards and procedures for the initial issuance and renewal of credentials.(2) (A) The commission shall require an initial or renewal applicant who submits an initial or renewal application for his or her the applicants credential online, as part of the application process, to read and attest by electronic signature a statement that the applicant for the credential understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(B) The commission shall require an initial applicant who submits an application in paper form, as part of the application process, to read and attest by signature a statement that the applicant understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(C) The statement described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall be substantially in the following form:As a documentholder authorized to work with children, it is part of my professional and ethical duty to report every instance of child abuse or neglect known or suspected to have occurred to a child with whom I have professional contact.I understand that I must report immediately, or as soon as practicably possible, by telephone to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency, and will send a written report and any evidence relating to the incident within 36 hours of becoming aware of the abuse or neglect of the child.I understand that reporting the information regarding a case of possible child abuse or neglect to an employer, supervisor, school principal, school counselor, coworker, or other person is not a substitute for making a mandated report to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency.I understand that the reporting duties are individual and no supervisor or administrator may impede or inhibit my reporting duties.I understand that once I submit a report, I am not required to disclose my identity to my employer.I understand that my failure to report an instance of suspected child abuse or neglect as required by the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act under Section 11166 of the Penal Code is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.I acknowledge and certify that as a documentholder, I will fulfill all the duties required of a mandated reporter.(b) The commission shall not issue initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language as provided in Section 44252.5 or 44252.7. The commission shall exempt the following persons from the basic skills proficiency test requirement:(1) A person credentialed solely for the purpose of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program.(2) An applicant for an adult education designated subject credential for other than an academic subject.(3) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination administered by the state where the person is credentialed.(4) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination that has been developed and administered by the school district offering that person employment, by cooperating school districts, or by the appropriate county office of education. School districts administering a basic skills proficiency examination under this paragraph shall comply with the requirements of subdivision (h) of Section 44830. The applicant shall be granted a nonrenewable credential, valid for not longer than one year, pending fulfillment of the basic skills proficiency requirement pursuant to Section 44252.5.(5) An applicant for a child care childcare center permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped if the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(6) The holder of a credential, permit, or certificate to teach, other than an emergency permit, who seeks an additional authorization to teach.(7) An applicant for a credential to provide service in the health profession.(8) An applicant who achieves scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT Test, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.(9) An applicant for an eminence credential to be issued pursuant to Section 44262.(10) (A) An applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as described in subparagraph (B), that is determined by a credential preparation program, or determined by the commission for an applicant not enrolled in a California credential preparation program, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. As used in this section, qualifying coursework means a course or courses of a semester length of at least three units, or the equivalent number of quarter units, taken at a regionally accredited institution of higher education for academic credit that applies toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree. Qualifying coursework does not include professional development or continuing education units, inservice training or workshops, or courses where credits do not apply toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree.(B) (i) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the following courses are sufficient to serve as alternative indicators of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills:(I) For reading proficiency, a course in the subjects of critical thinking, literature, logic, philosophy, reading, rhetoric, or textual analysis.(II) For writing proficiency, a course in the subjects of composition, English, rhetoric, written communications, or writing.(III) For mathematics proficiency, a course in the subjects of geometry, mathematics, quantitative reasoning, or statistics.(ii) A course that does not fall within a subject described in clause (i) may also serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency if the applicant provides documentation in writing from the registrar or relevant department chair of the regionally accredited institution of higher education where the course was taken. The documentation shall state that the course is an indicator of proficiency in the applicable skill or skills. (11) An applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language through a combination of qualifying coursework described in paragraph (10), passage of a component or components of the state basic skills proficiency test described in subdivision (d) of Section 44252.5, and scores described in paragraph (8).(c) (1) The Superintendent shall adopt an appropriate state test to measure proficiency in these basic skills. In adopting the test, the Superintendent shall seek assistance from the commission and an advisory board. A majority of the members of the advisory board shall be classroom teachers. The advisory board also shall include representatives of school boards, school administrators, parents, and postsecondary educational institutions.(2) The Superintendent shall adopt a normed test that the Superintendent determines will sufficiently test basic skills for purposes of this section.(3) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and approved teacher training institutions, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this section.(d) This section does not require the holders of, or applicants for, a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test unless the requirements for the specific credential required the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of a school district, or the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or the a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs a holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency criteria for the holders of these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(e) The commission shall compile data regarding the rate of passing the state basic skills proficiency test by persons who have been trained in various institutions of higher education. The data shall be available to members of the public, including to persons who intend to enroll in teacher education programs.(f) (1) Each applicant to an approved credential program, unless exempted by subdivision (b), shall take the state basic skills proficiency test in order to provide both the prospective applicant and the program with information regarding the proficiency level of the applicant. Test results shall be forwarded to each California postsecondary educational institution to which the applicant has applied. The program shall use test results to ensure that, upon admission, each applicant receives appropriate academic assistance necessary to pass the state basic skills proficiency test. Persons residing outside the state shall take the test no later than the second available administration following their enrollment in a credential program.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that applicants for admission to teacher preparation programs not be denied admission on the basis of state basic skills proficiency test results. |
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| 68 | | - | CHAPTER 2.4. Safe-To-Tell Program32256. (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Saugus Strong Act.(b) The School Safety Division is hereby established within the department for purposes administering the Safe-To-Tell Program pursuant to this chapter.(c) The School Safety Division shall be administered by the Director of School Safety, who shall be appointed by the Superintendent and who may hire staff as appropriate to implement this chapter.(d) (1) The Safe-To-Tell account is hereby established in the General Fund for purposes of implementing this chapter. Funds in the account shall be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, only for purposes of this chapter.(2) Funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter shall not count toward satisfying the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.32257. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department pursuant to this chapter.(b) The Director of School Safety shall implement the Safe-To-Tell Program consistent with all of the following requirements:(1) (A) The program shall enable any person to anonymously report any dangerous, violent, or unlawful activity that is being conducted or threatened to be conducted on the property of a local educational agency, at an activity sponsored by the local educational agency, or on a schoolbus of a local educational agency.(B) The identity of a person who reports information to the program shall not be known by persons operating the program, shall not be disclosed to any person, and shall remain unknown to persons employed by, contracting with, volunteering with, or otherwise assisting any organization operating any program platform.(C) For purposes of this chapter, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school.(2) (A) (i) The program shall operate a crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address for purposes of the program.(ii) The crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address shall be operated by the School Safety Division or the department may contract, consistent with the requirements of this chapter and state law, with a qualified organization to operate the crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, or email address.(B) The crisis call center shall be staffed by individuals with evidence-based counseling and crisis intervention training and shall be operational 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and shall support and help facilitate a coordinated response by schools, public safety dispatchers, and sworn law enforcement agents to an identified crisis when such a response is to be reasonably expected.(3) The School Safety Division shall develop and implement a triage approach to disseminating anonymous tips based on the severity of the tip.(4) All information received by the program shall be strictly confidential and School Safety Division shall develop policies and procedures to ensure all of the following:(A) All relevant information reported to the program is promptly forwarded to the appropriate public safety agencies and the appropriate school-based teams established pursuant to Section 32259.(B) A person shall not be compelled to produce or disclose any record or information provided to the program except upon a court order.(C) If a report filed with the program is determined by the Director of School Safety to be a false report, information about the subject of the false report shall be immediately removed from the subject pupils record, if they are a pupil, including records held by the local educational agency and an individual school, and the director shall notify any law enforcement agencies previously notified of the report. Law enforcement agencies notified by the director pursuant to this clause shall remove the report from any records on the subject, unless the report is part of an active criminal investigation.32258. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program Advisory Committee is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department.(b) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the committee shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, all of the following information:(1) The total number of tips received for the previous school year.(2) The total number of tips received since the program began, disaggregated by school and each of the following:(A) Tips by type.(B) Method by which the tip was received.(C) The total number of false reports received.(3) The total number of responses to incoming tips disaggregated by disciplinary actions, nondisciplinary actions, and interventions, as well as the gender and race of the pupil subject to the disciplinary action, nondisciplinary action, or intervention.32259. (a) Each local educational agency shall establish school-based teams of at least three members of the administrative staff at each of its schools for purposes of receiving notice of any report submitted to the program concerning the respective school.(b) The School Safety Division shall maintain a list of points of contact for each school-based team, local law enforcement dispatch, and law enforcement agencies.(c) The School Safety Division shall develop and provide training to all of the following:(1) Each member of a school-based team concerning the appropriate response to various types of tips.(2) Pupils and teachers on how to recognize and identify observable warning signs and signals of an individual or peer who may be at risk of harming themselves or others, the importance of taking threats seriously and seeking help, and how to make a report on one of the program platforms.(3) Law enforcement dispatchers as to how to receive notice of any report submitted to the program that requires response from sworn law enforcement.(d) Local educational agencies shall not be additionally liable as a result of their participation in the program. |
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| 50 | + | 44252. (a) (1) The commission shall establish standards and procedures for the initial issuance and renewal of credentials.(2) (A) The commission shall require an initial or renewal applicant who submits an initial or renewal application for his or her the applicants credential online, as part of the application process, to read and attest by electronic signature a statement that the applicant for the credential understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(B) The commission shall require an initial applicant who submits an application in paper form, as part of the application process, to read and attest by signature a statement that the applicant understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(C) The statement described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall be substantially in the following form:As a documentholder authorized to work with children, it is part of my professional and ethical duty to report every instance of child abuse or neglect known or suspected to have occurred to a child with whom I have professional contact.I understand that I must report immediately, or as soon as practicably possible, by telephone to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency, and will send a written report and any evidence relating to the incident within 36 hours of becoming aware of the abuse or neglect of the child.I understand that reporting the information regarding a case of possible child abuse or neglect to an employer, supervisor, school principal, school counselor, coworker, or other person is not a substitute for making a mandated report to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency.I understand that the reporting duties are individual and no supervisor or administrator may impede or inhibit my reporting duties.I understand that once I submit a report, I am not required to disclose my identity to my employer.I understand that my failure to report an instance of suspected child abuse or neglect as required by the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act under Section 11166 of the Penal Code is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.I acknowledge and certify that as a documentholder, I will fulfill all the duties required of a mandated reporter.(b) The commission shall not issue initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language as provided in Section 44252.5 or 44252.7. The commission shall exempt the following persons from the basic skills proficiency test requirement:(1) A person credentialed solely for the purpose of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program.(2) An applicant for an adult education designated subject credential for other than an academic subject.(3) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination administered by the state where the person is credentialed.(4) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination that has been developed and administered by the school district offering that person employment, by cooperating school districts, or by the appropriate county office of education. School districts administering a basic skills proficiency examination under this paragraph shall comply with the requirements of subdivision (h) of Section 44830. The applicant shall be granted a nonrenewable credential, valid for not longer than one year, pending fulfillment of the basic skills proficiency requirement pursuant to Section 44252.5.(5) An applicant for a child care childcare center permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped if the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(6) The holder of a credential, permit, or certificate to teach, other than an emergency permit, who seeks an additional authorization to teach.(7) An applicant for a credential to provide service in the health profession.(8) An applicant who achieves scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT Test, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.(9) An applicant for an eminence credential to be issued pursuant to Section 44262.(10) (A) An applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as described in subparagraph (B), that is determined by a credential preparation program, or determined by the commission for an applicant not enrolled in a California credential preparation program, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. As used in this section, qualifying coursework means a course or courses of a semester length of at least three units, or the equivalent number of quarter units, taken at a regionally accredited institution of higher education for academic credit that applies toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree. Qualifying coursework does not include professional development or continuing education units, inservice training or workshops, or courses where credits do not apply toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree.(B) (i) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the following courses are sufficient to serve as alternative indicators of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills:(I) For reading proficiency, a course in the subjects of critical thinking, literature, logic, philosophy, reading, rhetoric, or textual analysis.(II) For writing proficiency, a course in the subjects of composition, English, rhetoric, written communications, or writing.(III) For mathematics proficiency, a course in the subjects of geometry, mathematics, quantitative reasoning, or statistics.(ii) A course that does not fall within a subject described in clause (i) may also serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency if the applicant provides documentation in writing from the registrar or relevant department chair of the regionally accredited institution of higher education where the course was taken. The documentation shall state that the course is an indicator of proficiency in the applicable skill or skills. (11) An applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language through a combination of qualifying coursework described in paragraph (10), passage of a component or components of the state basic skills proficiency test described in subdivision (d) of Section 44252.5, and scores described in paragraph (8).(c) (1) The Superintendent shall adopt an appropriate state test to measure proficiency in these basic skills. In adopting the test, the Superintendent shall seek assistance from the commission and an advisory board. A majority of the members of the advisory board shall be classroom teachers. The advisory board also shall include representatives of school boards, school administrators, parents, and postsecondary educational institutions.(2) The Superintendent shall adopt a normed test that the Superintendent determines will sufficiently test basic skills for purposes of this section.(3) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and approved teacher training institutions, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this section.(d) This section does not require the holders of, or applicants for, a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test unless the requirements for the specific credential required the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of a school district, or the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or the a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs a holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency criteria for the holders of these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(e) The commission shall compile data regarding the rate of passing the state basic skills proficiency test by persons who have been trained in various institutions of higher education. The data shall be available to members of the public, including to persons who intend to enroll in teacher education programs.(f) (1) Each applicant to an approved credential program, unless exempted by subdivision (b), shall take the state basic skills proficiency test in order to provide both the prospective applicant and the program with information regarding the proficiency level of the applicant. Test results shall be forwarded to each California postsecondary educational institution to which the applicant has applied. The program shall use test results to ensure that, upon admission, each applicant receives appropriate academic assistance necessary to pass the state basic skills proficiency test. Persons residing outside the state shall take the test no later than the second available administration following their enrollment in a credential program.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that applicants for admission to teacher preparation programs not be denied admission on the basis of state basic skills proficiency test results. |
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| 70 | | - | CHAPTER 2.4. Safe-To-Tell Program32256. (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Saugus Strong Act.(b) The School Safety Division is hereby established within the department for purposes administering the Safe-To-Tell Program pursuant to this chapter.(c) The School Safety Division shall be administered by the Director of School Safety, who shall be appointed by the Superintendent and who may hire staff as appropriate to implement this chapter.(d) (1) The Safe-To-Tell account is hereby established in the General Fund for purposes of implementing this chapter. Funds in the account shall be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, only for purposes of this chapter.(2) Funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter shall not count toward satisfying the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.32257. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department pursuant to this chapter.(b) The Director of School Safety shall implement the Safe-To-Tell Program consistent with all of the following requirements:(1) (A) The program shall enable any person to anonymously report any dangerous, violent, or unlawful activity that is being conducted or threatened to be conducted on the property of a local educational agency, at an activity sponsored by the local educational agency, or on a schoolbus of a local educational agency.(B) The identity of a person who reports information to the program shall not be known by persons operating the program, shall not be disclosed to any person, and shall remain unknown to persons employed by, contracting with, volunteering with, or otherwise assisting any organization operating any program platform.(C) For purposes of this chapter, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school.(2) (A) (i) The program shall operate a crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address for purposes of the program.(ii) The crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address shall be operated by the School Safety Division or the department may contract, consistent with the requirements of this chapter and state law, with a qualified organization to operate the crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, or email address.(B) The crisis call center shall be staffed by individuals with evidence-based counseling and crisis intervention training and shall be operational 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and shall support and help facilitate a coordinated response by schools, public safety dispatchers, and sworn law enforcement agents to an identified crisis when such a response is to be reasonably expected.(3) The School Safety Division shall develop and implement a triage approach to disseminating anonymous tips based on the severity of the tip.(4) All information received by the program shall be strictly confidential and School Safety Division shall develop policies and procedures to ensure all of the following:(A) All relevant information reported to the program is promptly forwarded to the appropriate public safety agencies and the appropriate school-based teams established pursuant to Section 32259.(B) A person shall not be compelled to produce or disclose any record or information provided to the program except upon a court order.(C) If a report filed with the program is determined by the Director of School Safety to be a false report, information about the subject of the false report shall be immediately removed from the subject pupils record, if they are a pupil, including records held by the local educational agency and an individual school, and the director shall notify any law enforcement agencies previously notified of the report. Law enforcement agencies notified by the director pursuant to this clause shall remove the report from any records on the subject, unless the report is part of an active criminal investigation.32258. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program Advisory Committee is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department.(b) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the committee shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, all of the following information:(1) The total number of tips received for the previous school year.(2) The total number of tips received since the program began, disaggregated by school and each of the following:(A) Tips by type.(B) Method by which the tip was received.(C) The total number of false reports received.(3) The total number of responses to incoming tips disaggregated by disciplinary actions, nondisciplinary actions, and interventions, as well as the gender and race of the pupil subject to the disciplinary action, nondisciplinary action, or intervention.32259. (a) Each local educational agency shall establish school-based teams of at least three members of the administrative staff at each of its schools for purposes of receiving notice of any report submitted to the program concerning the respective school.(b) The School Safety Division shall maintain a list of points of contact for each school-based team, local law enforcement dispatch, and law enforcement agencies.(c) The School Safety Division shall develop and provide training to all of the following:(1) Each member of a school-based team concerning the appropriate response to various types of tips.(2) Pupils and teachers on how to recognize and identify observable warning signs and signals of an individual or peer who may be at risk of harming themselves or others, the importance of taking threats seriously and seeking help, and how to make a report on one of the program platforms.(3) Law enforcement dispatchers as to how to receive notice of any report submitted to the program that requires response from sworn law enforcement.(d) Local educational agencies shall not be additionally liable as a result of their participation in the program. |
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(a) (1) The commission shall establish standards and procedures for the initial issuance and renewal of credentials.(2) (A) The commission shall require an initial or renewal applicant who submits an initial or renewal application for his or her the applicants credential online, as part of the application process, to read and attest by electronic signature a statement that the applicant for the credential understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(B) The commission shall require an initial applicant who submits an application in paper form, as part of the application process, to read and attest by signature a statement that the applicant understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(C) The statement described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall be substantially in the following form:As a documentholder authorized to work with children, it is part of my professional and ethical duty to report every instance of child abuse or neglect known or suspected to have occurred to a child with whom I have professional contact.I understand that I must report immediately, or as soon as practicably possible, by telephone to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency, and will send a written report and any evidence relating to the incident within 36 hours of becoming aware of the abuse or neglect of the child.I understand that reporting the information regarding a case of possible child abuse or neglect to an employer, supervisor, school principal, school counselor, coworker, or other person is not a substitute for making a mandated report to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency.I understand that the reporting duties are individual and no supervisor or administrator may impede or inhibit my reporting duties.I understand that once I submit a report, I am not required to disclose my identity to my employer.I understand that my failure to report an instance of suspected child abuse or neglect as required by the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act under Section 11166 of the Penal Code is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.I acknowledge and certify that as a documentholder, I will fulfill all the duties required of a mandated reporter.(b) The commission shall not issue initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language as provided in Section 44252.5 or 44252.7. The commission shall exempt the following persons from the basic skills proficiency test requirement:(1) A person credentialed solely for the purpose of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program.(2) An applicant for an adult education designated subject credential for other than an academic subject.(3) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination administered by the state where the person is credentialed.(4) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination that has been developed and administered by the school district offering that person employment, by cooperating school districts, or by the appropriate county office of education. School districts administering a basic skills proficiency examination under this paragraph shall comply with the requirements of subdivision (h) of Section 44830. The applicant shall be granted a nonrenewable credential, valid for not longer than one year, pending fulfillment of the basic skills proficiency requirement pursuant to Section 44252.5.(5) An applicant for a child care childcare center permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped if the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(6) The holder of a credential, permit, or certificate to teach, other than an emergency permit, who seeks an additional authorization to teach.(7) An applicant for a credential to provide service in the health profession.(8) An applicant who achieves scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT Test, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.(9) An applicant for an eminence credential to be issued pursuant to Section 44262.(10) (A) An applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as described in subparagraph (B), that is determined by a credential preparation program, or determined by the commission for an applicant not enrolled in a California credential preparation program, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. As used in this section, qualifying coursework means a course or courses of a semester length of at least three units, or the equivalent number of quarter units, taken at a regionally accredited institution of higher education for academic credit that applies toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree. Qualifying coursework does not include professional development or continuing education units, inservice training or workshops, or courses where credits do not apply toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree.(B) (i) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the following courses are sufficient to serve as alternative indicators of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills:(I) For reading proficiency, a course in the subjects of critical thinking, literature, logic, philosophy, reading, rhetoric, or textual analysis.(II) For writing proficiency, a course in the subjects of composition, English, rhetoric, written communications, or writing.(III) For mathematics proficiency, a course in the subjects of geometry, mathematics, quantitative reasoning, or statistics.(ii) A course that does not fall within a subject described in clause (i) may also serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency if the applicant provides documentation in writing from the registrar or relevant department chair of the regionally accredited institution of higher education where the course was taken. The documentation shall state that the course is an indicator of proficiency in the applicable skill or skills. (11) An applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language through a combination of qualifying coursework described in paragraph (10), passage of a component or components of the state basic skills proficiency test described in subdivision (d) of Section 44252.5, and scores described in paragraph (8).(c) (1) The Superintendent shall adopt an appropriate state test to measure proficiency in these basic skills. In adopting the test, the Superintendent shall seek assistance from the commission and an advisory board. A majority of the members of the advisory board shall be classroom teachers. The advisory board also shall include representatives of school boards, school administrators, parents, and postsecondary educational institutions.(2) The Superintendent shall adopt a normed test that the Superintendent determines will sufficiently test basic skills for purposes of this section.(3) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and approved teacher training institutions, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this section.(d) This section does not require the holders of, or applicants for, a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test unless the requirements for the specific credential required the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of a school district, or the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or the a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs a holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency criteria for the holders of these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(e) The commission shall compile data regarding the rate of passing the state basic skills proficiency test by persons who have been trained in various institutions of higher education. The data shall be available to members of the public, including to persons who intend to enroll in teacher education programs.(f) (1) Each applicant to an approved credential program, unless exempted by subdivision (b), shall take the state basic skills proficiency test in order to provide both the prospective applicant and the program with information regarding the proficiency level of the applicant. Test results shall be forwarded to each California postsecondary educational institution to which the applicant has applied. The program shall use test results to ensure that, upon admission, each applicant receives appropriate academic assistance necessary to pass the state basic skills proficiency test. Persons residing outside the state shall take the test no later than the second available administration following their enrollment in a credential program.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that applicants for admission to teacher preparation programs not be denied admission on the basis of state basic skills proficiency test results. |
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| 76 | | - | 32256. (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Saugus Strong Act.(b) The School Safety Division is hereby established within the department for purposes administering the Safe-To-Tell Program pursuant to this chapter.(c) The School Safety Division shall be administered by the Director of School Safety, who shall be appointed by the Superintendent and who may hire staff as appropriate to implement this chapter.(d) (1) The Safe-To-Tell account is hereby established in the General Fund for purposes of implementing this chapter. Funds in the account shall be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, only for purposes of this chapter.(2) Funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter shall not count toward satisfying the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. |
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(a) (1) The commission shall establish standards and procedures for the initial issuance and renewal of credentials.(2) (A) The commission shall require an initial or renewal applicant who submits an initial or renewal application for his or her the applicants credential online, as part of the application process, to read and attest by electronic signature a statement that the applicant for the credential understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(B) The commission shall require an initial applicant who submits an application in paper form, as part of the application process, to read and attest by signature a statement that the applicant understands the duties imposed on a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 11164) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code), including, but not limited to, the duty of a holder of a teaching credential or a services credential to report to any police department, sheriffs department, county probation department authorized to receive reports, or county welfare department, whenever he or she, the credentialholder, in his or her the credentialholders professional capacity or within the scope of his or her the credentialholders employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the holder of a teaching credential or a services credential knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.(C) The statement described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall be substantially in the following form:As a documentholder authorized to work with children, it is part of my professional and ethical duty to report every instance of child abuse or neglect known or suspected to have occurred to a child with whom I have professional contact.I understand that I must report immediately, or as soon as practicably possible, by telephone to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency, and will send a written report and any evidence relating to the incident within 36 hours of becoming aware of the abuse or neglect of the child.I understand that reporting the information regarding a case of possible child abuse or neglect to an employer, supervisor, school principal, school counselor, coworker, or other person is not a substitute for making a mandated report to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency.I understand that the reporting duties are individual and no supervisor or administrator may impede or inhibit my reporting duties.I understand that once I submit a report, I am not required to disclose my identity to my employer.I understand that my failure to report an instance of suspected child abuse or neglect as required by the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act under Section 11166 of the Penal Code is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.I acknowledge and certify that as a documentholder, I will fulfill all the duties required of a mandated reporter.(b) The commission shall not issue initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language as provided in Section 44252.5 or 44252.7. The commission shall exempt the following persons from the basic skills proficiency test requirement:(1) A person credentialed solely for the purpose of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program.(2) An applicant for an adult education designated subject credential for other than an academic subject.(3) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination administered by the state where the person is credentialed.(4) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination that has been developed and administered by the school district offering that person employment, by cooperating school districts, or by the appropriate county office of education. School districts administering a basic skills proficiency examination under this paragraph shall comply with the requirements of subdivision (h) of Section 44830. The applicant shall be granted a nonrenewable credential, valid for not longer than one year, pending fulfillment of the basic skills proficiency requirement pursuant to Section 44252.5.(5) An applicant for a child care childcare center permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped if the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(6) The holder of a credential, permit, or certificate to teach, other than an emergency permit, who seeks an additional authorization to teach.(7) An applicant for a credential to provide service in the health profession.(8) An applicant who achieves scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT Test, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University.(9) An applicant for an eminence credential to be issued pursuant to Section 44262.(10) (A) An applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as described in subparagraph (B), that is determined by a credential preparation program, or determined by the commission for an applicant not enrolled in a California credential preparation program, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. As used in this section, qualifying coursework means a course or courses of a semester length of at least three units, or the equivalent number of quarter units, taken at a regionally accredited institution of higher education for academic credit that applies toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree. Qualifying coursework does not include professional development or continuing education units, inservice training or workshops, or courses where credits do not apply toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree.(B) (i) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the following courses are sufficient to serve as alternative indicators of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills:(I) For reading proficiency, a course in the subjects of critical thinking, literature, logic, philosophy, reading, rhetoric, or textual analysis.(II) For writing proficiency, a course in the subjects of composition, English, rhetoric, written communications, or writing.(III) For mathematics proficiency, a course in the subjects of geometry, mathematics, quantitative reasoning, or statistics.(ii) A course that does not fall within a subject described in clause (i) may also serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency if the applicant provides documentation in writing from the registrar or relevant department chair of the regionally accredited institution of higher education where the course was taken. The documentation shall state that the course is an indicator of proficiency in the applicable skill or skills. (11) An applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language through a combination of qualifying coursework described in paragraph (10), passage of a component or components of the state basic skills proficiency test described in subdivision (d) of Section 44252.5, and scores described in paragraph (8).(c) (1) The Superintendent shall adopt an appropriate state test to measure proficiency in these basic skills. In adopting the test, the Superintendent shall seek assistance from the commission and an advisory board. A majority of the members of the advisory board shall be classroom teachers. The advisory board also shall include representatives of school boards, school administrators, parents, and postsecondary educational institutions.(2) The Superintendent shall adopt a normed test that the Superintendent determines will sufficiently test basic skills for purposes of this section.(3) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and approved teacher training institutions, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this section.(d) This section does not require the holders of, or applicants for, a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test unless the requirements for the specific credential required the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of a school district, or the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or the a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs a holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency criteria for the holders of these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(e) The commission shall compile data regarding the rate of passing the state basic skills proficiency test by persons who have been trained in various institutions of higher education. The data shall be available to members of the public, including to persons who intend to enroll in teacher education programs.(f) (1) Each applicant to an approved credential program, unless exempted by subdivision (b), shall take the state basic skills proficiency test in order to provide both the prospective applicant and the program with information regarding the proficiency level of the applicant. Test results shall be forwarded to each California postsecondary educational institution to which the applicant has applied. The program shall use test results to ensure that, upon admission, each applicant receives appropriate academic assistance necessary to pass the state basic skills proficiency test. Persons residing outside the state shall take the test no later than the second available administration following their enrollment in a credential program.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that applicants for admission to teacher preparation programs not be denied admission on the basis of state basic skills proficiency test results. |
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| 90 | | - | 32257. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department pursuant to this chapter.(b) The Director of School Safety shall implement the Safe-To-Tell Program consistent with all of the following requirements:(1) (A) The program shall enable any person to anonymously report any dangerous, violent, or unlawful activity that is being conducted or threatened to be conducted on the property of a local educational agency, at an activity sponsored by the local educational agency, or on a schoolbus of a local educational agency.(B) The identity of a person who reports information to the program shall not be known by persons operating the program, shall not be disclosed to any person, and shall remain unknown to persons employed by, contracting with, volunteering with, or otherwise assisting any organization operating any program platform.(C) For purposes of this chapter, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school.(2) (A) (i) The program shall operate a crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address for purposes of the program.(ii) The crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address shall be operated by the School Safety Division or the department may contract, consistent with the requirements of this chapter and state law, with a qualified organization to operate the crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, or email address.(B) The crisis call center shall be staffed by individuals with evidence-based counseling and crisis intervention training and shall be operational 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and shall support and help facilitate a coordinated response by schools, public safety dispatchers, and sworn law enforcement agents to an identified crisis when such a response is to be reasonably expected.(3) The School Safety Division shall develop and implement a triage approach to disseminating anonymous tips based on the severity of the tip.(4) All information received by the program shall be strictly confidential and School Safety Division shall develop policies and procedures to ensure all of the following:(A) All relevant information reported to the program is promptly forwarded to the appropriate public safety agencies and the appropriate school-based teams established pursuant to Section 32259.(B) A person shall not be compelled to produce or disclose any record or information provided to the program except upon a court order.(C) If a report filed with the program is determined by the Director of School Safety to be a false report, information about the subject of the false report shall be immediately removed from the subject pupils record, if they are a pupil, including records held by the local educational agency and an individual school, and the director shall notify any law enforcement agencies previously notified of the report. Law enforcement agencies notified by the director pursuant to this clause shall remove the report from any records on the subject, unless the report is part of an active criminal investigation. |
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| 68 | + | I understand that I must report immediately, or as soon as practicably possible, by telephone to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency, and will send a written report and any evidence relating to the incident within 36 hours of becoming aware of the abuse or neglect of the child. |
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| 70 | + | I understand that reporting the information regarding a case of possible child abuse or neglect to an employer, supervisor, school principal, school counselor, coworker, or other person is not a substitute for making a mandated report to a law enforcement agency or a child protective agency. |
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| 72 | + | I understand that the reporting duties are individual and no supervisor or administrator may impede or inhibit my reporting duties. |
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| 74 | + | I understand that once I submit a report, I am not required to disclose my identity to my employer. |
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| 76 | + | I understand that my failure to report an instance of suspected child abuse or neglect as required by the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act under Section 11166 of the Penal Code is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine. |
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| 78 | + | I acknowledge and certify that as a documentholder, I will fulfill all the duties required of a mandated reporter. |
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| 80 | + | (b) The commission shall not issue initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language as provided in Section 44252.5 or 44252.7. The commission shall exempt the following persons from the basic skills proficiency test requirement: |
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| 82 | + | (1) A person credentialed solely for the purpose of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program. |
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| 84 | + | (2) An applicant for an adult education designated subject credential for other than an academic subject. |
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| 86 | + | (3) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination administered by the state where the person is credentialed. |
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| 88 | + | (4) A person credentialed in another state who is an applicant for employment in a school district in this state who has passed a basic skills proficiency examination that has been developed and administered by the school district offering that person employment, by cooperating school districts, or by the appropriate county office of education. School districts administering a basic skills proficiency examination under this paragraph shall comply with the requirements of subdivision (h) of Section 44830. The applicant shall be granted a nonrenewable credential, valid for not longer than one year, pending fulfillment of the basic skills proficiency requirement pursuant to Section 44252.5. |
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| 90 | + | (5) An applicant for a child care childcare center permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped if the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree. |
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| 92 | + | (6) The holder of a credential, permit, or certificate to teach, other than an emergency permit, who seeks an additional authorization to teach. |
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| 94 | + | (7) An applicant for a credential to provide service in the health profession. |
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| 96 | + | (8) An applicant who achieves scores on the writing, reading, and mathematics sections of the College Board SAT Reasoning Test, the enhanced ACT Test, or the California State University Early Assessment Program that are sufficient to waive the English placement test and the entry level mathematics examination administered by the California State University. |
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| 98 | + | (9) An applicant for an eminence credential to be issued pursuant to Section 44262. |
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| 100 | + | (10) (A) An applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as described in subparagraph (B), that is determined by a credential preparation program, or determined by the commission for an applicant not enrolled in a California credential preparation program, to sufficiently serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. As used in this section, qualifying coursework means a course or courses of a semester length of at least three units, or the equivalent number of quarter units, taken at a regionally accredited institution of higher education for academic credit that applies toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree. Qualifying coursework does not include professional development or continuing education units, inservice training or workshops, or courses where credits do not apply toward the requirements for an associates degree, baccalaureate degree, or higher degree. |
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| 102 | + | (B) (i) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the following courses are sufficient to serve as alternative indicators of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills: |
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| 106 | + | (II) For writing proficiency, a course in the subjects of composition, English, rhetoric, written communications, or writing. |
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| 108 | + | (III) For mathematics proficiency, a course in the subjects of geometry, mathematics, quantitative reasoning, or statistics. |
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| 110 | + | (ii) A course that does not fall within a subject described in clause (i) may also serve as an alternative indicator of proficiency if the applicant provides documentation in writing from the registrar or relevant department chair of the regionally accredited institution of higher education where the course was taken. The documentation shall state that the course is an indicator of proficiency in the applicable skill or skills. |
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| 112 | + | (11) An applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language through a combination of qualifying coursework described in paragraph (10), passage of a component or components of the state basic skills proficiency test described in subdivision (d) of Section 44252.5, and scores described in paragraph (8). |
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| 114 | + | (c) (1) The Superintendent shall adopt an appropriate state test to measure proficiency in these basic skills. In adopting the test, the Superintendent shall seek assistance from the commission and an advisory board. A majority of the members of the advisory board shall be classroom teachers. The advisory board also shall include representatives of school boards, school administrators, parents, and postsecondary educational institutions. |
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| 116 | + | (2) The Superintendent shall adopt a normed test that the Superintendent determines will sufficiently test basic skills for purposes of this section. |
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| 118 | + | (3) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and approved teacher training institutions, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this section. |
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| 120 | + | (d) This section does not require the holders of, or applicants for, a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test unless the requirements for the specific credential required the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of a school district, or the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or the a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs a holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency criteria for the holders of these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test. |
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| 122 | + | (e) The commission shall compile data regarding the rate of passing the state basic skills proficiency test by persons who have been trained in various institutions of higher education. The data shall be available to members of the public, including to persons who intend to enroll in teacher education programs. |
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| 124 | + | (f) (1) Each applicant to an approved credential program, unless exempted by subdivision (b), shall take the state basic skills proficiency test in order to provide both the prospective applicant and the program with information regarding the proficiency level of the applicant. Test results shall be forwarded to each California postsecondary educational institution to which the applicant has applied. The program shall use test results to ensure that, upon admission, each applicant receives appropriate academic assistance necessary to pass the state basic skills proficiency test. Persons residing outside the state shall take the test no later than the second available administration following their enrollment in a credential program. |
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| 126 | + | (2) It is the intent of the Legislature that applicants for admission to teacher preparation programs not be denied admission on the basis of state basic skills proficiency test results. |
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| 128 | + | SEC. 2. Section 44830 of the Education Code is amended to read:44830. (a) The governing board of a school district shall employ for positions requiring certification qualifications, only persons who possess the qualifications for those positions prescribed by law. It is contrary to the public policy of this state for a person or persons charged, by the governing boards, with the responsibility of recommending persons for employment by the boards to refuse or to fail to do so for reasons of race, color, religious creed, sex, or national origin of the applicants for that employment.(b) (1) The governing board of a school district shall not initially hire on a permanent, temporary, or substitute basis a certificated person seeking employment in the capacity designated in his or her the certificated persons credential unless that person has demonstrated basic skills proficiency as provided in Section 44252.5 or is exempted exempt from the requirement by subdivision (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), or (k). (l).(1)(A) The governing board of a school district, with the authorization of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, commission, may administer the state basic skills proficiency test required under Sections 44252 and 44252.5.(2)(B) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and local governing boards, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this subdivision.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that in effectively implementing this subdivision, the governing boards of school districts shall direct superintendents of schools to prepare for emergencies by developing a pool of qualified emergency substitute teachers. This preparation shall include public notice of the test requirements and of the dates and locations of administrations of the tests. The governing board of a school district shall make special efforts to encourage individuals who are known to be qualified in other respects as substitutes to take the state basic skills proficiency test at its earliest administration.(3) Demonstration of proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics by a person pursuant to Section 44252 satisfies the requirements of this subdivision.(c) A certificated person is not required to take the state basic skills proficiency examination if he or she the certificated person has taken and passed it at least once, achieved a passing score on any of the tests specified in subdivision (b) of Section 44252, or possessed a credential before the enactment of the statute that made the test a requirement.(d) This section does not require a person employed solely for purposes of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program, approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards Division of the Department of Industrial Relations, to pass the state proficiency assessment instrument as a condition of employment.(e) This section does not require the holder of a child care childcare permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped to take the state basic skills proficiency test, so long as the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(f) This section does not require the holder of a credential issued by the commission who seeks an additional credential or authorization to teach, to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(g) This section does not require the holder of a credential to provide service in the health profession to take the state basic skills proficiency test if that person does not teach in the public schools.(h) This section does not require the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test as a condition of employment unless the requirements for the specific credential require the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of each a school district, or each the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or each a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency for these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(i) This section does not require the holder of a preliminary or clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test.(j) This section does not require certificated personnel employed under a foreign exchange program to take the state basic skills proficiency test. The maximum period of exemption under this subdivision shall be one year.(k) This section does not require a credential applicant who qualifies for an exemption described in paragraph (10) or (11) of subdivision (b) of Section 44252 to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(k) (l) Notwithstanding any other law, a school district or county office of education may hire certificated personnel who have not taken the state basic skills proficiency test if that person has not yet been afforded the opportunity to take the test. The person shall take the test at the earliest opportunity and may remain employed by the school district pending the receipt of his or her the persons test results. |
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| 134 | + | 44830. (a) The governing board of a school district shall employ for positions requiring certification qualifications, only persons who possess the qualifications for those positions prescribed by law. It is contrary to the public policy of this state for a person or persons charged, by the governing boards, with the responsibility of recommending persons for employment by the boards to refuse or to fail to do so for reasons of race, color, religious creed, sex, or national origin of the applicants for that employment.(b) (1) The governing board of a school district shall not initially hire on a permanent, temporary, or substitute basis a certificated person seeking employment in the capacity designated in his or her the certificated persons credential unless that person has demonstrated basic skills proficiency as provided in Section 44252.5 or is exempted exempt from the requirement by subdivision (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), or (k). (l).(1)(A) The governing board of a school district, with the authorization of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, commission, may administer the state basic skills proficiency test required under Sections 44252 and 44252.5.(2)(B) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and local governing boards, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this subdivision.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that in effectively implementing this subdivision, the governing boards of school districts shall direct superintendents of schools to prepare for emergencies by developing a pool of qualified emergency substitute teachers. This preparation shall include public notice of the test requirements and of the dates and locations of administrations of the tests. The governing board of a school district shall make special efforts to encourage individuals who are known to be qualified in other respects as substitutes to take the state basic skills proficiency test at its earliest administration.(3) Demonstration of proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics by a person pursuant to Section 44252 satisfies the requirements of this subdivision.(c) A certificated person is not required to take the state basic skills proficiency examination if he or she the certificated person has taken and passed it at least once, achieved a passing score on any of the tests specified in subdivision (b) of Section 44252, or possessed a credential before the enactment of the statute that made the test a requirement.(d) This section does not require a person employed solely for purposes of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program, approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards Division of the Department of Industrial Relations, to pass the state proficiency assessment instrument as a condition of employment.(e) This section does not require the holder of a child care childcare permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped to take the state basic skills proficiency test, so long as the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(f) This section does not require the holder of a credential issued by the commission who seeks an additional credential or authorization to teach, to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(g) This section does not require the holder of a credential to provide service in the health profession to take the state basic skills proficiency test if that person does not teach in the public schools.(h) This section does not require the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test as a condition of employment unless the requirements for the specific credential require the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of each a school district, or each the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or each a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency for these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(i) This section does not require the holder of a preliminary or clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test.(j) This section does not require certificated personnel employed under a foreign exchange program to take the state basic skills proficiency test. The maximum period of exemption under this subdivision shall be one year.(k) This section does not require a credential applicant who qualifies for an exemption described in paragraph (10) or (11) of subdivision (b) of Section 44252 to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(k) (l) Notwithstanding any other law, a school district or county office of education may hire certificated personnel who have not taken the state basic skills proficiency test if that person has not yet been afforded the opportunity to take the test. The person shall take the test at the earliest opportunity and may remain employed by the school district pending the receipt of his or her the persons test results. |
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| 136 | + | 44830. (a) The governing board of a school district shall employ for positions requiring certification qualifications, only persons who possess the qualifications for those positions prescribed by law. It is contrary to the public policy of this state for a person or persons charged, by the governing boards, with the responsibility of recommending persons for employment by the boards to refuse or to fail to do so for reasons of race, color, religious creed, sex, or national origin of the applicants for that employment.(b) (1) The governing board of a school district shall not initially hire on a permanent, temporary, or substitute basis a certificated person seeking employment in the capacity designated in his or her the certificated persons credential unless that person has demonstrated basic skills proficiency as provided in Section 44252.5 or is exempted exempt from the requirement by subdivision (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), or (k). (l).(1)(A) The governing board of a school district, with the authorization of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, commission, may administer the state basic skills proficiency test required under Sections 44252 and 44252.5.(2)(B) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and local governing boards, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this subdivision.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that in effectively implementing this subdivision, the governing boards of school districts shall direct superintendents of schools to prepare for emergencies by developing a pool of qualified emergency substitute teachers. This preparation shall include public notice of the test requirements and of the dates and locations of administrations of the tests. The governing board of a school district shall make special efforts to encourage individuals who are known to be qualified in other respects as substitutes to take the state basic skills proficiency test at its earliest administration.(3) Demonstration of proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics by a person pursuant to Section 44252 satisfies the requirements of this subdivision.(c) A certificated person is not required to take the state basic skills proficiency examination if he or she the certificated person has taken and passed it at least once, achieved a passing score on any of the tests specified in subdivision (b) of Section 44252, or possessed a credential before the enactment of the statute that made the test a requirement.(d) This section does not require a person employed solely for purposes of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program, approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards Division of the Department of Industrial Relations, to pass the state proficiency assessment instrument as a condition of employment.(e) This section does not require the holder of a child care childcare permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped to take the state basic skills proficiency test, so long as the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(f) This section does not require the holder of a credential issued by the commission who seeks an additional credential or authorization to teach, to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(g) This section does not require the holder of a credential to provide service in the health profession to take the state basic skills proficiency test if that person does not teach in the public schools.(h) This section does not require the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test as a condition of employment unless the requirements for the specific credential require the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of each a school district, or each the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or each a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency for these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(i) This section does not require the holder of a preliminary or clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test.(j) This section does not require certificated personnel employed under a foreign exchange program to take the state basic skills proficiency test. The maximum period of exemption under this subdivision shall be one year.(k) This section does not require a credential applicant who qualifies for an exemption described in paragraph (10) or (11) of subdivision (b) of Section 44252 to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(k) (l) Notwithstanding any other law, a school district or county office of education may hire certificated personnel who have not taken the state basic skills proficiency test if that person has not yet been afforded the opportunity to take the test. The person shall take the test at the earliest opportunity and may remain employed by the school district pending the receipt of his or her the persons test results. |
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| 138 | + | 44830. (a) The governing board of a school district shall employ for positions requiring certification qualifications, only persons who possess the qualifications for those positions prescribed by law. It is contrary to the public policy of this state for a person or persons charged, by the governing boards, with the responsibility of recommending persons for employment by the boards to refuse or to fail to do so for reasons of race, color, religious creed, sex, or national origin of the applicants for that employment.(b) (1) The governing board of a school district shall not initially hire on a permanent, temporary, or substitute basis a certificated person seeking employment in the capacity designated in his or her the certificated persons credential unless that person has demonstrated basic skills proficiency as provided in Section 44252.5 or is exempted exempt from the requirement by subdivision (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), or (k). (l).(1)(A) The governing board of a school district, with the authorization of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, commission, may administer the state basic skills proficiency test required under Sections 44252 and 44252.5.(2)(B) The Superintendent, in conjunction with the commission and local governing boards, shall take steps necessary to ensure the effective implementation of this subdivision.(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that in effectively implementing this subdivision, the governing boards of school districts shall direct superintendents of schools to prepare for emergencies by developing a pool of qualified emergency substitute teachers. This preparation shall include public notice of the test requirements and of the dates and locations of administrations of the tests. The governing board of a school district shall make special efforts to encourage individuals who are known to be qualified in other respects as substitutes to take the state basic skills proficiency test at its earliest administration.(3) Demonstration of proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics by a person pursuant to Section 44252 satisfies the requirements of this subdivision.(c) A certificated person is not required to take the state basic skills proficiency examination if he or she the certificated person has taken and passed it at least once, achieved a passing score on any of the tests specified in subdivision (b) of Section 44252, or possessed a credential before the enactment of the statute that made the test a requirement.(d) This section does not require a person employed solely for purposes of teaching adults in an apprenticeship program, approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards Division of the Department of Industrial Relations, to pass the state proficiency assessment instrument as a condition of employment.(e) This section does not require the holder of a child care childcare permit or a permit authorizing service in a development center for the handicapped to take the state basic skills proficiency test, so long as the holder of the permit is not required to have a baccalaureate degree.(f) This section does not require the holder of a credential issued by the commission who seeks an additional credential or authorization to teach, to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(g) This section does not require the holder of a credential to provide service in the health profession to take the state basic skills proficiency test if that person does not teach in the public schools.(h) This section does not require the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test as a condition of employment unless the requirements for the specific credential require the possession of a baccalaureate degree. The governing board of each a school district, or each the governing board of a consortium of school districts, or each a governing board involved in a joint powers agreement, which employs the holder of a designated subjects special subjects credential credential, shall establish its own basic skills proficiency for these credentials and shall arrange for those individuals to be assessed. The basic skills proficiency criteria established by the governing board shall be at least equivalent to the test required by the district, or in the case of a consortium or a joint powers agreement, by any of the participating districts, for graduation from high school. The governing board or boards may charge a fee to individuals being tested to cover the costs of the test, including the costs of developing, administering, and grading the test.(i) This section does not require the holder of a preliminary or clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential to pass the state basic skills proficiency test.(j) This section does not require certificated personnel employed under a foreign exchange program to take the state basic skills proficiency test. The maximum period of exemption under this subdivision shall be one year.(k) This section does not require a credential applicant who qualifies for an exemption described in paragraph (10) or (11) of subdivision (b) of Section 44252 to take the state basic skills proficiency test.(k) (l) Notwithstanding any other law, a school district or county office of education may hire certificated personnel who have not taken the state basic skills proficiency test if that person has not yet been afforded the opportunity to take the test. The person shall take the test at the earliest opportunity and may remain employed by the school district pending the receipt of his or her the persons test results. |
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| 98 | | - | (1) (A) The program shall enable any person to anonymously report any dangerous, violent, or unlawful activity that is being conducted or threatened to be conducted on the property of a local educational agency, at an activity sponsored by the local educational agency, or on a schoolbus of a local educational agency. |
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| 100 | | - | (B) The identity of a person who reports information to the program shall not be known by persons operating the program, shall not be disclosed to any person, and shall remain unknown to persons employed by, contracting with, volunteering with, or otherwise assisting any organization operating any program platform. |
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| 102 | | - | (C) For purposes of this chapter, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school. |
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| 104 | | - | (2) (A) (i) The program shall operate a crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address for purposes of the program. |
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| 106 | | - | (ii) The crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, and email address shall be operated by the School Safety Division or the department may contract, consistent with the requirements of this chapter and state law, with a qualified organization to operate the crisis call center, internet website, mobile telephone application, or email address. |
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| 108 | | - | (B) The crisis call center shall be staffed by individuals with evidence-based counseling and crisis intervention training and shall be operational 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and shall support and help facilitate a coordinated response by schools, public safety dispatchers, and sworn law enforcement agents to an identified crisis when such a response is to be reasonably expected. |
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| 110 | | - | (3) The School Safety Division shall develop and implement a triage approach to disseminating anonymous tips based on the severity of the tip. |
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| 112 | | - | (4) All information received by the program shall be strictly confidential and School Safety Division shall develop policies and procedures to ensure all of the following: |
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| 114 | | - | (A) All relevant information reported to the program is promptly forwarded to the appropriate public safety agencies and the appropriate school-based teams established pursuant to Section 32259. |
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| 116 | | - | (B) A person shall not be compelled to produce or disclose any record or information provided to the program except upon a court order. |
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| 118 | | - | (C) If a report filed with the program is determined by the Director of School Safety to be a false report, information about the subject of the false report shall be immediately removed from the subject pupils record, if they are a pupil, including records held by the local educational agency and an individual school, and the director shall notify any law enforcement agencies previously notified of the report. Law enforcement agencies notified by the director pursuant to this clause shall remove the report from any records on the subject, unless the report is part of an active criminal investigation. |
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| 120 | | - | 32258. (a) The Safe-To-Tell Program Advisory Committee is hereby established within the School Safety Division of the department.(b) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the committee shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, all of the following information:(1) The total number of tips received for the previous school year.(2) The total number of tips received since the program began, disaggregated by school and each of the following:(A) Tips by type.(B) Method by which the tip was received.(C) The total number of false reports received.(3) The total number of responses to incoming tips disaggregated by disciplinary actions, nondisciplinary actions, and interventions, as well as the gender and race of the pupil subject to the disciplinary action, nondisciplinary action, or intervention. |
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