The bill would end the Praxis core test requirement just months after a new law created a pathway letting teachers eschew the basic skills test. (Courtesy of the New Jersey Governor's Office) A bill ...

A New Jersey teachers union wants to change the state's standards for entering the profession. The Garden State currently requires that candidates for teacher certification pass a basic skills test ...

Teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools, according to a new law. Act 1669, which was signed into law ...

November 26, 2025 - Come prepare a meal with the fifth and sixth graders of Pacific Elementary, in Davenport, California, where the district attracts students just for the lunch. The caller had ...

A New Jersey law that went into effect Jan. 1 to address an ongoing teacher shortage by eliminating certain testing required of aspiring teachers has created a social media frenzy of confusion amid ...

Praxis Basic Skills test was a requirement for teacher certification Nearly all of New Jersey’s legislators voted last year to remove the Praxis Basic Skills test as a requirement for teacher ...

Aspiring educators in New Jersey are no longer required to pass a basic skills test for reading, writing and math due to a new law intended to address the state's teacher shortage by lowering the ...

The New Jersey Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, has asked its members to urge Gov. Phil Murphy to sign a bill into law that would eliminate the basic skills tests in reading, ...