California Education Code ARTICLE 8 - Certificates and Credentials

• Section 44330.
  Except where such service is provided by a school district pursuant to Section 44332.5, each county or city and county board of education may provide...
• Section 44331.
  County boards of education may renew any certificate legally issued by them prior to October 1, 1945, and now in force; provided, that no certificate...
• Section 44332.
  (a) Except where that service is provided by a school district authorized to register certification documents pursuant to Section 44332.5, each county board of education or...
• Section 44332.5.
  (a) (1) A school district that may issue warrants pursuant to Section 42647 may, at its discretion, provide for the registration of a valid certification or other...
• Section 44332.6.
  (a) (1) Before issuing a temporary certificate pursuant to Section 44332, a county board of education or city and county board of education shall obtain proof that...
• Section 44333.
  The standard for the exchange credential shall be as prescribed by the commission pursuant to Section 44853.This credential shall authorize service in a position requiring...
• Section 44334.
  Except as provided in this code, no certification document shall be granted to any person unless and until he has subscribed to the following oath...
• Section 44335.
  The issuance of any teaching credential requires (1) the passing of a satisfactory examination on the provisions and principles of the Constitution of the United...
• Section 44336.
  When required by the commission, the application for a certification document or the renewal thereof shall be accompanied by a certificate in such form as...
• Section 44337.
  No person otherwise qualified shall be denied the right to receive credentials from the commission, to receive training for the purpose of becoming a teacher,...
• Section 44338.
  No person otherwise qualified shall be denied the right to receive credentials issued by the commission, to receive training for the purpose of becoming a...
• Section 44339.
  (a) The commission shall adopt, in addition to any other regulations authorized by law, regulations requiring every applicant for a credential, or for the renewal of...
• Section 44340.
  Each applicant for a credential, or for the renewal of a credential, shall submit with his application duplicate personal identification cards provided by the commission...
• Section 44341.
  (a) (1) For the purpose of ascertaining the moral character and true identity of the holder of a credential or an applicant for a credential or the...
• Section 44342.
  Teachers, principals, supervisors, school librarians, superintendents and assistant superintendents, and other certified personnel who are presently employed in public schools in California shall not be...
• Section 44343.
  A credential which was issued prior to July 1, 1973, shall remain in force as long as it is valid and continues to be valid...
• Section 44343.5.
  (a) The commission shall grant or deny a completed application for a credential within seven days of the date that the commission received the application if...
• Section 44344.
  (a) The commission shall issue the appropriate credentials authorized by the law operative, and the rules and regulations of the commission in effect on December 31,...
• Section 44345.
  The commission may deny any application for the issuance of a credential or for the renewal of a credential made by any applicant who falls...
• Section 44346.
  (a) The commission shall deny any application for the issuance of a credential or for the renewal of a credential made by any applicant who comes...
• Section 44346.1.
  (a) The commission shall deny any application for the issuance of a credential made by an applicant who has been convicted of a violent or serious...
• Section 44346.5.
  (a) The Commission on Teacher Credentialing shall submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information required by the Department of Justice of all...
• Section 44347.
  The terms of credentials shall be as specified in this article.(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
• Section 44348.
  Except as otherwise specifically required in this chapter, the commission shall establish regulations pertaining to the expiration dates of initially issued and renewed credentials.(Enacted by...
• Section 44349.
  Each credential issued by the commission shall clearly state the kind of service that it authorizes, the grades or classes, or the types of schools...
• Section 44350.
  (a) Each credential issued shall contain its date of expiration, be issued on a form prescribed by the commission, and bear the signatures of the executive...
• Section 44351.
  Whenever the date of expiration of any credential occurs while the person holding the credential is in the active military service of the United States...
• Section 44352.
  Whenever satisfactory proof is presented to the commission by any person to whom the commission has granted a credential that has been lost or destroyed,...
• Section 44353.
  Satisfactory proof shall consist of an affidavit by the person, giving the kind of the credential, the date of issue, if possible, and the basis...
• Section 44354.
  Any oath required of an applicant for a credential may be administered by any of the persons enumerated in Section 60, by such employees of...
• Section 44355.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), all credentials regularly issued are valid until revoked, suspended, or expired as provided by law.(b) A credential issued under either...

Last modified: October 22, 2018