Announcements

The  April 2022 Commission Meeting Agenda is now available. 

• The Commission has updated the Commission at a Glance and the following California Educator Supply pages with 2020-21 fiscal year data.
• Teacher Supply: Credentials and Interns, Permits and Waivers.
• Other Teacher Supply: Bilingual Authorizations,  Designated Subjects Teaching Credentials and English Learner Authorizations.
• Other Educator Supply: Services Credentials, Child Development Permits and Substitute Permits.

Form 41-LS updated: Please use form 41-LS (Rev. 03/2022) when obtaining a Live Scan fingerprint in CA.

The February 2022 Commission Meeting Agenda is now available. 

Coded Correspondence 22-01: Executive Order N-3-22 and New Staffing Flexibilities is now available.

The January 2022 Closed Session Agenda is now available.

The Commission on Teacher Credentialing is seeking applications to fill a vacancy for the Elementary Teacher and School Board Member positions on the Committee of Credentials. The application can be found at the Committee of Credentials webpage. The final filing date for applications is March 16, 2022.

The December 2021 Commission Meeting Agenda is now available. 

The December 2021 Ad Hoc Committee Agenda is now available.

The California state budget signed by the Governor in July 2021 includes a total of $350 million in funding for competitive grants to support a collaborative partnership between an eligible Local Education Agency (LEA) or a consortium of LEAs partnering with one or more Commission-approved teacher preparation programs offered by a regionally accredited institution of higher education (IHE) to expand, strengthen, improve access to, or create teacher residency programs. The funding may be used to establish new teacher residency programs that support either of the following: (a) designated shortage fields including special education, bilingual education, computer science, science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), transitional kindergarten (TK), or kindergarten and/or (b) local efforts to recruit, develop support systems for, provide outreach and communication strategies to, and retain a diverse teacher workforce that reflects a local education agency community’s diversity.

Twenty-five million dollars is available for Teacher Residency Capacity Grant awards up to a maximum of $250,000 per eligible applicant, and the Request for Applications (RFA) for this grant opportunity is now available and is due to the Commission by 5:00 PM PDT on February 14, 2022.

Please visit the Commission’s Teacher Residency Grants webpage for more information.