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Education Code § 44283.1

ARTICLE 5. Subject Matter Examinations and Assessments

Current as of September 28, 2026Ed. Code, § 44283.1Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 8, Sec. 34. (AB 121) Effective June 27, 2025.

(a) As of the effective date of this section, an applicant for a preliminary multiple subject teaching credential or a preliminary education specialist instruction credential will hold a passing reading instruction competence assessment score prospectively if, within the 10 calendar years following the date the score was earned, the applicant has achieved a reading instruction competence assessment examination score as follows:

(1) A score of 198 earned on the 2009 single administration reading instruction competence assessment examination before July 26, 2021.

(2) A score of 198 earned on each subtest of the three-subtest version of the reading instruction competence assessment on or after July 26, 2021.

(b) This section supersedes subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 80071 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations.