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I. BACKGROUND

A. The Parties and Relevant Nonparties The Commission establishes the professional standards for obtaining teaching credentials in California. (§ 44225.) The Commission is also authorized to take adverse action against credential holders. (§ 44421.) The Commission may privately admonish or publicly reprove a credential holder, or revoke or suspend a credential holder for immoral or unprofessional conduct or persistent defiance of the laws regulating the duties of persons serving in the public school system, or for any cause that would have warranted the denial of an application for a credential or the renewal thereof. (Ibid.) The Commission appoints the Committee, an investigatory arm comprised of seven members (two full-time classroom teachers from public schools, one administrative employee from a public school, one member of the governing board of a school district, and three members of the public). (§ 44240.) The Committee is charged with investigating allegations of misconduct by credential holders. (§ 44242.5, subd. (e).)

Undesignated statutory references are to the Education Code.

2 The administrators are credential holders currently or formerly…