Teacher credentialing: supplementary authorization: ethnic studies.

Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law authorizes the commission to grant an added or supplementary authorization to a credentialholder who has met the requirements and standards of the commission for the added or supplementary authorization. This bill would require the commission to develop an added or supplementary authorization in ethnic studies. The bill would require the commission to grant the added or supplementary authorization in ethnic studies to a credentialholder who has met the requirements and standards of the commission for the added or supplementary authorization in ethnic studies, as provided.