2025 Regular Session

• At the request of: (at the request of Senate Interim Committee on Education)
• Bill Title: Relating to nontraditional pathways to licensure for educators.

Catchline/Summary

Digest: The Act tells some agencies to create a strategic plan for the educator workforce in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1).

[Digest: The Act tells the TSPC and EAC to create a plan for people to become licensed as educators in different ways. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).]

[Directs the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission and the Educator Advancement Council to jointly develop a strategic plan for nontraditional pathways to licensure for educators in this state.]

[Requires the commission and the council to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than July 1 of each even-numbered year.]

Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, the Department of Education, the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, the Department of Early Learning and Care and the Educator Advancement Council to jointly develop a three- to five-year strategic plan for agency collaboration to align, coordinate and strengthen the educator workforce in Oregon.

Directs the agencies to include an analysis of progress toward meeting the goals of the strategic plan in specific biennial reports required under the Educators Equity Act.

• Fiscal Impact: Fiscal Impact Issued
• Revenue Impact: No Revenue Impact
• Current Location: In Senate Committee
• Current Committee: Joint Committee On Ways and Means