Section 44301 Of Article 5.5. Emergency Permits From California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 25. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 5.5.
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. (a) Any person who does not hold a valid California teaching
credential that requires a baccalaureate degree shall be required to
pass the appropriate subject matter competency examination or
examinations, as determined by the commission, before he or she may
be initially issued an emergency multiple- or single-subject teaching
permit, except an emergency substitute teaching permit, authorizing
him or her to teach a subject that is specified by the commission.
(b) The commission may issue an emergency multiple- or
single-subject teaching permit to an applicant who has not taken the
appropriate subject matter competency test, provided the employing
agency certifies all of the following to the commission:
(1) The applicant has not had the opportunity to take the test.
(2) The applicant shall take the appropriate subject matter
competency test at its next regularly scheduled administration.
(3) The employing agency shall discontinue employment of the
person eight weeks after the date on which the test is administered
if he or she does not give the employing agency evidence of having
passed the required subject matter competency test on that date.
(c) The emergency teaching permit issued pursuant to subdivision
(b) shall expire on the next regular expiration date for emergency
permits, or on a date that is eight weeks after the date on which the
required subject matter competency test was administered, whichever
date comes first.
(d) The commission shall waive the requirements of this section
for each applicant for each of the following:
(1) An emergency single-subject teaching permit, if the applicant
has successfully completed at least 18 semester units, or nine
semester units of upper division or graduate coursework, at a
regionally accredited institution of postsecondary education, in the
subject area to be taught.
(2) An emergency multiple-subjects permit, if the applicant has
successfully completed at least 40 semester units, or the equivalent,
at a regionally accredited institution of postsecondary education,
in the subjects that are commonly taught in elementary schools, as
determined by the commission.