2E Relating to education; modifying and clarifying certain provisions relating
to basic skills requirements and licensure for teacher candidates; allowing the
board of teaching to issue a temporary one-year teaching license to certain qualified candidates and providing for renewal of the license for participants in a remedial assistance program; requiring availability of remedial assistance upon request; establishing a teacher licensure advisory task force to make recommendations to the board of teaching, the education commissioner, and the legislature on requirements for teacher candidates to demonstrate mastery of college-level reading, writing, and math and an alternative licensure pathway for nonnative English speakers seeking licensure to teach in a language immersion program; sunset provision
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