Substitute teachers: Teaching Permit for Statutory Leave: expanded pathways.

Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue various types of teaching and services credentials, including preliminary and clear multiple and single subject teaching credentials. The commission is also authorized to issue emergency teaching and specialist permits that correspond to specified credential types. Existing regulations provide for procedures by which the commission may issue an Emergency 30-Day Substitute Teaching Permit authorizing the holder to substitute teach, as provided. Existing regulations also authorize a local employing agency to request from the commission that the Teaching Permit for Statutory Leave be used when a teacher of record is unable to provide services due to a statutory leave, as provided. This bill would require the commission, through a stakeholder process, to determine whether there is a need to provide a person who holds an Emergency 30-Day Substitute Teaching Permit, who is otherwise qualified to receive a Teaching Permit for Statutory Leave, expanded pathways for meeting the requirements of the Teaching Permit for Statutory Leave, and to make regulatory changes as necessary, on or before July 1, 2019.