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PELSB updates major licensure rule package: arts, ethnic studies and computer science among top changes

Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board · August 15, 2025
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Summary

Board staff briefed members on the large '4863' rule package and arts rulemaking, proposing structural changes to arts licenses, narrowing ethnic-studies licensure to grades 5–12 with a K–6 endorsement option, and splitting computer-science licensure; staff proposed stakeholder surveys and submission to the reviser's office for consolidated language.

Staff and members of the arts steering committee reported progress on two interlocking rulemaking efforts at the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board meeting on Aug. 15.

Steve Rollin, the board's rulemaking attorney, summarized the large rule package (referred to in the meeting as '4863') that implements recent legislative changes and several technical corrections. Among the staff-recommended items: follow legislative changes expanding bachelor-degree exemptions to certain licensure areas; add required renewal components for American Indian history and culture; streamline portfolio requirements and fix…

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