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By Tom Chorneau
Monday, December 10, 2012
Despite some misgivings tied to robbing Peter to pay Paul, the state’s Commission on Teacher Credentialing gave its consent late last week to to moving ahead on imposing a fee for accrediting university preparation programs.
As one of the few state agencies that is self-funding, the CTC is under pressure from the Brown administration and legislative leaders to find ways to streamline operations and recover more of its operating costs.
One of the commission’s primary duties is ensuring that teacher training programs in California are properly preparing educators as defined by state standards. There are about 260 training programs currently, which are perpetually revising coursework and objectives to reflect changes in state law and policies.
The institutional accreditation process, however, is provided to college and universities at no charge from the CTC – something both Gov. Jerry Brown’s office and the non-partisan Legislative Analyst have suggested should change.
“If we don’t take some sort of leadership role, this will be thrust upon us,” said Rich Zeiger, chief deputy to state