Education-related positions: previous employment disclosures: Commission on Teacher Credentialing: unprofessional conduct

The law strengthens hiring safeguards intended to ensure schools identify prior reports of egregious misconduct before employing staff. Certificated applicants and school leaders can face credential discipline for noncompliance.

What the law does ​

• Treats a certificated applicant’s failure to list every prior school employer as unprofessional conduct subject to Commission on Teacher Credentialing action.
• Bars district and county superintendents and charter and private school chief administrators from hiring certificated or noncertificated staff before completing required employment-history inquiries.
• Requires those leaders to ensure the inquiries are completed and makes noncompliance unprofessional conduct subject to Commission on Teacher Credentialing action.
• Provides state reimbursement procedures if the Commission on State Mandates finds the new local duties create reimbursable state-mandated costs.

Who it affects ​

• Applicants for certificated positions at public, charter, state special, diagnostic-center, and private schools.
• District and county office superintendents and charter and private school chief administrators.
• Certificated and noncertificated school employees undergoing hiring checks.

Context ​

Schools already must seek and share specified information about credible complaints, substantiated investigations, or discipline involving egregious misconduct.