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Basic Skills Requirement (BSR)

The California Education Code and Title 5 Regulations specify that applicants for a credential who wish to serve in a public school in California must verify basic skills proficiency. 

As of June 29, 2024, CA SB 153 allows applicants to a teaching, pupil personnel, or administrative credential program to use their bachelor's degree or higher from a regionally accredited institution as verification of meeting basic skills in reading, writing, and mathematics. 

A bachelor's degree earned outside of the United States must be deemed equivalent to a degree earned at a regionally accredited institution in the United States. Educators who earned their degree outside of the United States must obtain an evaluation of their transcripts through a California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) approved Foreign Transcript Evaluation Agency. (Transcript evaluation is required prior to applying to the university and the evaluation may be used as verification of basic skills if on the approved Transcript Evaluation Agency list).

Your credential program admission advisor will verify your degree or transcript evaluation upon application to your credential program.

Regional Accreditation: Accrediting Organizations

Transcript Evaluation Agencies approved by CSUB & CCTC: Transcript Evaluators

 

 

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