71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
NOTE: Matter within { + braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within { - braces and minus
signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within
{ + braces and plus signs + } .
LC 3031
A-Engrossed
Senate Bill 782
Ordered by the Senate May 8
Including Senate Amendments dated May 8
Sponsored by Senator GORDLY, Representative WESTLUND; Senator
HANNON
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure.
{ - Requires applicants for teaching or administrative
license to demonstrate cultural competence. Requires applicants
for teaching license to demonstrate competence in teaching
reading skills. - } { + Requires Superintendent of Public
Instruction to recommend to Teacher Standards and Practices
Commission qualities needed by teachers and other specified
school personnel to demonstrate multicultural competence and to
implement multicultural education program. Requires school
districts to provide regular in-service training on strategies
and curricula for multicultural education. Requires applicant for
initial, basic, standard or continuing teaching license to
demonstrate level of competence in multicultural education needed
to meet recommendation of superintendent. + }
Declares emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to school personnel; creating new provisions; amending
ORS 336.113, 342.123, 342.135 and 342.138; and declaring an
emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 336.113 is amended to read:
336.113. (1) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall
direct the Department of Education to increase efforts to:
(a) Evaluate the distribution of ethnic, racial and cultural
backgrounds of the public school students of Oregon and the use
of demographic data by school districts for curricula and program
planning as reflected in school districts' consolidated
improvement plans;
(b) Examine strategies to inform school district boards, school
administrators, teachers, parents of students and the public
about multicultural and diversity laws and policies;
(c) Identify and review exemplary multicultural curricula for
different grade levels based on the needs of Oregon's public
school students;
(d) Identify and review strategies to integrate a multicultural
education program with other education programs of school
districts; and
(e) Evaluate how current laws on diversity and multicultural
education are being implemented and applied at the state and
school district levels.
(2) The superintendent shall:
(a) Seek federal and other funds to develop and implement
multicultural education;
(b) Seek federal and other funds to provide funding and
technical support for school districts to develop and implement
multicultural curricula and educational programs; { - and - }
(c) Report to the State Board of Education on the funds
available, the success in obtaining funds, the plans to develop
and implement multicultural education and the development of a
system for evaluation { + ; and
(d) Recommend to the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission
the knowledge, content, skills, competencies and disposition
needed by Oregon teachers, counselors, school psychologists,
administrators and school nurses to demonstrate multicultural
competence and to implement the multicultural education program
described in subsection (1) of this section + }.
(3) The superintendent { - may - } { + shall + } appoint an
advisory committee to accomplish the requirements of this
section. The superintendent and the advisory committee shall seek
and incorporate input from the business community, educators and
{ - minority - } representatives { - that - } { + of the
Commission on Asian Affairs, the Commission on Black Affairs, the
Commission on Hispanic Affairs and the Commission on Indian
Services. The superintendent and the advisory committee shall
seek and incorporate input from persons who + } reflect the
demographics and geographic regions of this state.
{ + (4) Each school district shall regularly provide
in-service training to school personnel on strategies and
curricula for multicultural education as recommended by the
superintendent under this section. + }
SECTION 2. ORS 342.123 is amended to read:
342.123. (1) In addition to and not in lieu of any other law or
rule or standard established by the Teacher Standards and
Practices Commission, the commission shall require an applicant
for a teaching license or any renewal thereof demonstrate
knowledge of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX
of the Education Amendments of 1972, and federal statutes
pertaining thereto, as well as state statutes prohibiting
discrimination. { +
(2) The commission shall require an applicant for an initial
teaching license to demonstrate multicultural competence
appropriate to the license as recommended by the Superintendent
of Public Instruction under ORS 336.113. + }
{ - (2) - } { + (3) + } An applicant shall be required to
demonstrate { + multicultural competence and + } knowledge of
federal and state statutes prohibiting discrimination { + as + }
required by { - subsection - } { + subsections + } (1)
{ + and (2) + }of this section only once.
SECTION 3. ORS 342.135 is amended to read:
342.135. (1) A teaching license provided for in this section
shall qualify its holder to accept any instructional assignment
from preprimary through grade 12 for which the holder has
completed the professional requirements established by the rules
of the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.
(2) A basic teaching license shall be issued on application to
an otherwise qualified person who has completed an approved
teacher education program and meets such other requirements as
the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission may consider
necessary to maintain and improve quality of instruction in the
public schools of the state.
(a) Holders of the basic teaching license who meet the
requirements of the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to
teach in the regular classroom program of the public schools,
kindergarten through grade nine, may renew the basic license to
qualify them to continue in such teaching by verification of
{ + demonstrated + } successful teaching experience and of
continuing professional development in keeping with Teacher
Standards and Practices Commission rules.
(b) A holder of the basic teaching license with an indorsement
in art, educational media, foreign language, health, home
economics, industrial arts, music, physical education and reading
may renew the initial basic license by verification of { +
demonstrated + } successful teaching experience and of continuing
professional development in keeping with Teacher Standards and
Practices Commission rules. This subsection applies to licenses
for preprimary programs and grades 1 through 8 and shall include
grade 9 if the teacher is teaching in a middle school or a junior
high.
(c) Secondary teachers may teach in the public schools, grades
5 through 12, in those subject fields in which they have met the
requirements of the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.
(d) The holder of the standard teaching license who meets the
requirements of the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to
teach in the regular classroom program of the public schools in
kindergarten through grade 12 is eligible to renew the standard
license to qualify to continue in such teaching by verification
of { + demonstrated + } successful teaching experience and of
continuing professional development consistent with rules of the
Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.
(3)(a) A standard teaching license shall be issued on
application to an otherwise qualified person who has completed an
approved teacher education program, has taught on a basic
teaching license for a minimum period of time to be determined by
the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, and is
recommended for licensing by the approved teacher education
institution or the school district, whichever offered the
program.
(b) Preparation shall be a planned education program consisting
of courses taken in an approved teacher education institution or
in an in-service training program offered by a school district
for which credit is given by an approved teacher education
institution or some combination of both, in accordance with rules
of the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.
(4) { - Notwithstanding subsection (2) of this section, - }
The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission shall by rule
adopt dates by which continuing professional development is
required for renewal of a basic or standard teaching
license. { + A portion, to be determined by the commission, of
the professional development required for renewal of a basic or
standard teaching license shall focus on the knowledge, content,
skills, competencies and disposition appropriate to the license
and needed to provide multicultural education as recommended by
the Superintendent of Public Instruction under ORS 336.113. + }
SECTION 4. ORS 342.138 is amended to read:
342.138. (1) A continuing teaching, personnel service or
administrative license shall qualify the holder to accept any
assignments for preprimary through grade 12 for which the holder
has completed the advanced requirements established by the rules
of the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.
(2) A continuing license shall be issued on application for
five years to an otherwise qualified person who has:
(a) Completed an advanced professional education program
approved by the commission;
(b) Been employed on an initial license for a minimum period of
time to be determined by the commission in an Oregon public
school or an Oregon private school that meets the standards
adopted by the commission by rule or is registered as a private
school under ORS 345.505 to 345.575; and
(c) Demonstrated minimum competencies, knowledge and skills
required for the continuing license through an approved teacher
education institution, school district, professional organization
identified in ORS 342.121, or professional assessment approved by
the commission.
(3) The holder of a continuing license may renew the continuing
license for five years by verification of { + demonstrated + }
successful teaching experience and continuing professional
development in accordance with the rules of the commission.
{ + A portion, to be determined by the commission, of the
professional development required for renewal of a continuing
teaching license shall focus on knowledge, content, skills,
competencies and disposition appropriate to the license and
needed to provide multicultural education as recommended by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction under ORS 336.113. + }
SECTION 5. { + (1) The Superintendent of Public Instruction
shall report to the Seventy-second Legislative Assembly on the
progress of implementing the amendments to ORS 336.113 by section
1 of this 2001 Act. The report shall include the recommendations
of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the Teacher
Standards and Practices Commission under ORS 336.113 (2)(d).
(2) The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission shall report
to the Seventy-second Legislative Assembly on the progress of
implementing the amendments to ORS 342.123, 342.135 and 342.138
by sections 2 to 4 of this 2001 Act. + }
SECTION 6. { + The amendments to ORS 342.123, 342.135 and
342.138 by sections 2 to 4 of this 2001 Act first apply to
persons applying to the Teacher Standards and Practices
Commission for an initial teaching license or for renewal of a
basic, standard or continuing teaching license on or after July
1, 2003. + }
SECTION 7. { + This 2001 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2001 Act takes effect on its
passage. + }
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