By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-01 17:59:02 | Updated at 2025-01-04 10:51:45
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Teachers Will No Longer Need To Pass Basic Reading, Writing And Math Test For Certification In This Blue State
Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | December 30, 2024 | Jaryn Crouson
Posted on 01/01/2025 9:49:55 AM PST by george76
A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for certification will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.
The law, Act 1669, was passed by Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy as part of the state’s 2025 budget in June in an effort to address a shortage of teachers in the state... Individuals seeking an instructional certificate will no longer need to pass a “basic skills” test
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Just months earlier, Murphy signed a similar bill into law that created an alternative pathway for teachers to sidestep the testing requirement. A powerful teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association, was a driving force behind the bill, calling the testing requirement “an unnecessary barrier to entering the profession.” Teachers in the state are paid an average of $81,102 annually,
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New Jersey followed the example of New York, which scrapped basic literacy requirements for teachers in 2017 in the name of “diversity.”
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Other states such as California and Arizona also lower requirements for teacher certification by implementing fast-track options for substitute teachers to become full-time educators and eliminating exam requirements in order to make up for shortages in the field that were worsened by Covid
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As students struggle to regain learning losses caused by school closures during the pandemic, some states, such as Massachusetts, have opted to lower testing requirements for students in order to allow more to pass rather than make up for the lost education.
Teachers unions continue to hold major bargaining power in some blue states, pushing legislation that protects teachers despite their failure to improve learning outcomes for students. Only about half of New York students in grades three through eight tested as proficient in English and Math in the 2022 to 2023 school year despite the state spending almost twice the national average on education and New York teachers remaining some of the highest-paid in the country, according to the National Education Association.
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1 posted on 01/01/2025 9:49:55 AM PST by george76
To: george76
Oh this will improve things! /sarc
2 posted on 01/01/2025 9:52:47 AM PST by xp38
To: george76
Easier to program the indoctrinators when the have even fewer ways to receive uncontrolled information.
3 posted on 01/01/2025 9:53:19 AM PST by Skwor
To: george76
In the eyes of the educrat union, the stupider the better
4 posted on 01/01/2025 9:53:56 AM PST by PGR88
To: george76
DEI must now stand for:
Dumbest
Education
Institutions
5 posted on 01/01/2025 9:55:57 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: george76
Teachers in NJ will be basically baby-sitting indoctrinators. Not educators.
6 posted on 01/01/2025 9:56:13 AM PST by Reddy (BO stinks)
To: george76
Fitting. This is the state that gave us Chris Christie.
To: george76
I can’t believe a governor would be part of something like this - even a democrat governor.
The optics and the reality are terrible.
This governor might as well take a D9 and push the schools over.
8 posted on 01/01/2025 9:57:34 AM PST by jeffersondem
To: george76
Proof of the old saying:
“Those who can’t do, teach.”
9 posted on 01/01/2025 9:58:58 AM PST by sevlex
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