California Education Code

§ 44283

EDC § 44283 Effective Jun 27, 2025Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 25 · Ch. 2 · Art. 5

Statute text

(a)The Legislature hereby recognizes that teacher competence in reading instruction is essential to the progress and achievement of pupils learning to read in elementary and secondary schools. It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission develop a reading instruction competence assessment to measure the knowledge, skill, and ability of first-time credential applicants who are not credentialed in any state who will be responsible for reading instruction.

(b)The commission shall develop, adopt, and administer a reading instruction competence assessment consisting of one or more instruments to measure an individual’s knowledge, skill, and ability relative to effective reading instruction. The reading instruction competence assessment shall measure the knowledge, skill, and ability of first-time credential applicants who are not credentialed in any state that the commission determines to be essential to reading instruction and shall be consistent with the state’s reading curriculum framework adopted after July 1, 1996, and the Reading Program Advisory published by the department in 1996. The commission shall perform the following duties with respect to the reading instruction competence assessment:

(1)(A) Develop, adopt, and administer the assessment.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 8, Sec. 33. (AB 121) Effective June 27, 2025.