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Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: April 11, 2023 09:55 AM
From: Senator Michele Brooks
To: All Senate members
Subject: Allowing Additional Highly-Qualified Individuals to Obtain Career and Technical Instructional I Certificates
 
In the near future, I will be introducing legislation allowing additional highly-qualified individuals to obtain their Career and Technical Instructional I Certificate, who currently may not be able to due to restrictive program requirements and instructor certification hoops.
 
There are an abundance of highly-skilled individuals in occupations that could provide instruction to students, but do not meet the Career and Technical Instructional I Certificate requirements.  This was first brought to my attention in regards to firefighter training, but applies to other industries throughout the Commonwealth as well.
 
Currently, an applicant is issued a Career and Technical Instructional I Certificate upon presenting evidence of 8,000 hours (equivalent to 4 years full-time) wage-earning experience in the occupational area to be taught and satisfactory achievement on the assessment of basic skills.
 
This legislation, crafted in partnership with County Career Centers, would offer a simple solution to allow these schools better support their students, communities and the entire Commonwealth, by allowing instructors to be issued a Career and Technical Instructional I Certificate if they meet one of the following:
  • A minimum of 8,000 hours (equivalent to 4 years full-time) wage-earning experience in the occupational area to be taught;
  • A minimum of 8,000 hours (equivalent to 4 years full-time) experience as a volunteer firefighter or public safety officer in the occupational area to be taught, or;
  • A minimum of 8,000 hours (equivalent to 4 years full-time) teaching post-secondary courses in the occupational area to be taught.
I hope you will join me in cosponsoring this important legislation that will allow Career and Technical Centers to be responsive to both our industry’s and the Commonwealth’s needs.
 


Introduced as SB700