New Jersey Teachers No Longer Required to Pass Basic Reading, Writing, Math TestKatherine Hamilton 7 Jan 2025
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Teachers in New Jersey are no longer required to pass a basic reading, writing, and mathematics test to be eligible for jobs in public schools, under a new law that went into effect at the beginning of 2025.
Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed the law, Act 1669, in June, which was designed to address teacher shortages in the state, Fox News reported. The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), a teachers’ union, pushed for the law, calling the eligibility tests a “barrier” to certification in 2023.
At the same time, students in New Jersey are still struggling to recover to pre-pandemic levels of proficiency, according to December 2024 data released by the state education department. In 2024, 52.2 percent of students were proficient in reading, while 39.6 percent were proficient in math.
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