GA HR1485

Creates a 16-member Certification and Professional Learning Task Force to review educator certificate renewal requirements and procedures and recommend improvements aimed at enhancing schools, teaching, and student learning

Prompted by shrinking school system resources, educator furloughs, and the temporary suspension of Professional Standards Commission rules for professional learning requirements for clear renewable certificates

Task force membership includes representatives from the Professional Standards Commission, Department of Education, state legislature, public and private colleges of education, a regional educational service agency, a local superintendent, a principal, elementary/middle/high school teachers, the Georgia Staff Development Council, and the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget

Task force is charged with studying the roles of state and local entities in providing professional learning, the effectiveness of current renewal requirements on student learning, and the adequacy of the professional learning delivery system

An interim report is due to the House Education and Senate Education and Youth committees by April 15, 2011, with a final report due by November 30, 2011, at which point the task force stands abolished; members serve without compensation