[Fwd: Fwd: SB 1643 Update (CTC Watch)]
From: Tsai-Tsai O-Lee (toleemath.ucla.edu)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:31:40 -0700 (PDT)

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Your source for current events impacting the Commission on Teacher Credentialing......
Authored & Published by:
Bruce Kitchen, CCTC/School District Liaison
San Bernardino & San Diego Counties
TIME TO ACT!
Senate Bill 1643 (Torlakson) would create a law that would circumvent the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and give teacher licensing authority to County Boards of Education.  This bit of legislation would serve as a "door opener" that would remove credentialing authority and oversight from the CTC and place it in the hands of 58 different County Offices of Education.  As written, SB 1643 would allow non NCLB compliant teachers, who are not fully vetted or monitored, into our children's classrooms. 
Surprisingly (well, maybe not) this Governor sponsored bill has sped through both the Senate Education and Senate Appropriations Committees and moved to the Assembly WITHOUT DISSENT.  It is scheduled for hearing in the Assembly Education Committee on June 25.  You can read this "its no big deal" proposal for yourself by clicking on the following link
If it concerns you speak up.  Write a letter to the Chair of the Assembly Education Committee and express your opposition.  If you haven't got time feel free to copy mine.  It is attached.

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