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GA SR1199
Resolution
Status
Engrossed
3/22/2010
Primary Sponsor
Don Balfour
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AI Summary
- Professional Standards Commission directed to temporarily reduce professional learning requirements for clear renewable certificate renewal to no more than five professional learning units (or equivalent) between July 1, 2010, and July 1, 2015, due to shrinking school resources, educator furloughs, and financial constraints
- A 16-member Certification and Professional Learning Task Force is created to review certificate renewal requirements and recommend improvements aimed at enhancing schools, teaching, and student learning
- Task force membership draws from the Professional Standards Commission, Department of Education, University System of Georgia, a private college of education, local school systems, regional educational service agencies, practicing teachers (elementary, middle, and high school), the Georgia Staff Development Council, and the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget
- Task force charged with studying the roles of state and local agencies in providing professional learning, evaluating the effectiveness of current renewal requirements on student learning, and assessing the adequacy of the professional learning delivery system
- Interim report due to legislative education committee chairs by April 15, 2011, with a final report presented to a joint session of the House and Senate education committees by November 30, 2011, at which point the task force stands abolished
Legislative Description
Certification and Professional Task Force; create; directing Professional Standards Commission to temporarily modify its rule; certificate renewal
Last Action
House Second Readers
3/26/2010
Committee Referrals
Education3/24/2010
Education and Youth3/10/2010
Full Bill Text
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