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Panel approves limited path to reinstate revoked teacher licenses and clarifies ethics coverage
Summary
The committee approved a bill creating a narrowly controlled path for reinstating revoked educator licenses and adopted a measure to make the educator code of ethics apply to conduct when a person held a license even if it later expired; sponsors said both changes preserve classroom safety while allowing rare second-chance petitions.
Senate Bill 382 would create a narrowly circumscribed process allowing the State Board of Education to adopt rules to reinstate revoked educator licenses in rare circumstances. Ivy Pfeffer of the Department of Education told the committee that an enumerated list of disqualifying offenses (in existing law) still bars reinstatement for the most serious conduct, but…
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