2011 California Code
Education Code
TITLE 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION [33000 - 64100]
ARTICLE 4. Credential Types
Section 44257


CA Educ Code § 44257 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

(a) The commission shall issue single subject teaching credentials only in the following subjects:

(1) Agriculture.

(2) Art.

(3) Business.

(4) English.

(5) Foreign Language.

(6) Health Science.

(7) Home Economics.

(8) Industrial and Technology Education.

(9) Mathematics.

(10) Music.

(11) Physical Education.

(12) Science.

(13) Social Science.

(b) The commission shall issue the single subject credential in foreign language with an authorization to teach Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish, or any other language that the commission determines is appropriate.

(c) Subjects that are commonly taught in departmentalized classes in California public schools shall be subsumed under the credential categories in subdivision (a) of this section.

(d) The commission shall issue single subject teaching credentials in the categories that were identified in Section 44282 as of December 31, 1993, to applicants who were in the process of preparing to earn those credentials prior to the effective date of the commission s implementation of subdivision (a).

(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 809, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 1994.)

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