Report 2010-119 Recommendation 8 Responses

Report 2010-119: Commission on Teacher Credentialing: Despite Delays in Discipline of Teacher Misconduct, the Division of Professional Practices Has Not Developed an Adequate Strategy or Implemented Processes That Will Safeguard Against Future Backlogs (Release Date: April 2011)

Recommendation #8 To: Teacher Credentialing, California Commission on

The commission should revise its strategic plan to identify the programmatic, organizational, and external challenges that face the division and the committee, and determine the goals and actions necessary to accomplish its mission.

1-Year Agency Response

The commission adopted an amendment to its 2007 strategic plan at its March 2012 meeting. The amendment adds to the current strategic plan a goal 7: “Effectively, efficiently, and fairly monitor the fitness of all applicants and credential holders to work with California students.” The amendment also identifies five objectives and the major activities that need to take place in order to implement the objectives. According to the commission, the focus of the first two objectives is the remediation of the issues identified by the state auditor in its report. Finally, the commission also indicated that it held a one-day retreat for strategic planning to consider commission-wide issues and challenges. (See 2013-406, p. 52)

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2010-119

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.