The state Senate has unanimously passed two bills that will allow teacher licenses to be revoked.
Legislation by State Senator Bob Margett allows teachers who plead no contest to certain sex crimes or drug offenses or have had their licenses revoked in other states to be banned from teaching in California.
The bills are opposed by the California Teachers Association, the A-C-L-U, and gay rights groups.
The bills are in response to an Associated Press Investigation that reported more than 25-hundred teachers nationwide had sexual misconduct allegations from 2001 to 2005.
More than 300 of those teachers were in California.
Prior to Margett’s bills passing the Credentialing Commission would hold a discretionary review hearing.
The bill would also extend the statute of limitations for disclosing past teacher misconduct—making records available for five years.Margett’s bills are now going to the full Assembly for approval.
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