HF 2081: Relating to teachers, including the assessments administered to practitioner preparation program admission candidates and to practitioner preparation program students prior to students’ completion of a practitioner preparation program, field experiences, and certain specified licenses for teachers created by the board of educational examiners, and including notice, effective date, and applicability provisions

What it does

This bill relates to the assessments administered to practitioner preparation program admission candidates and to practitioner preparation program students prior to students’ completion of a practitioner preparation program. Current law provides that the state board of education shall adopt rules requiring all higher education institutions providing practitioner preparation to, prior to a student’s completion of the practitioner preparation program, administer either subject assessments designed by a nationally recognized testing service or a valid and reliable subject-area-specific, performance-based assessment centered on student learning.

Senate subcommittee · named March 8, 2022

• Sen. Amy Sinclair (R) · amy.sinclair@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Eric Giddens (D)
• Sen. Craig Johnson (R) · craig.johnson@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 7 for, 1 against

For: Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa State Education Association; Personal Interest-Mona Bond; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

Against: Educational Testing Services

In plain words

1. January 24, 2022Filed in the House
2. February 28, 2022Passed the House, 94–0
3. March 1, 2022Arrived in the Senate
4. March 8, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Sinclair, Giddens and Johnson
5. March 9, 2022Subcommittee recommended passing it
6. March 15, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
7. May 23, 2022Passed the Senate, 46–0
8. June 2, 2022Sent to the Governor
9. June 13, 2022Signed into law