OAN Staff James Meyers
12:57 PM – Friday, January 3, 2025
A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing, and mathematics test for certification went into effect on January 1st, 2025.
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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) signed the law in June 2024.
The law, Act 1669, cleared the state Senate in a 34-2 vote as part of the state’s 2025 budget.
The legislation states: “The State Board of Education shall not require a candidate seeking any instructional certificate, except in the case of a limited certificate of eligibility or a limited certificate of eligibility with advanced standing … to complete a Commissioner of Education-approved test of basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills including, but not limited to, the Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators test, in order to obtain an…
