Bill Text: NJ A3982 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits DOE from requiring minimum score on any individual subtest to qualify for certain endorsements; requires DOE to establish average minimum score on multiple subject matter tests to qualify for certain teacher endorsements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-07 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A3982 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3982-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3982

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 7, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ROSY BAGOLIE

District 27 (Essex and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits DOE from requiring minimum score on any individual subtest to qualify for certain endorsements; requires DOE to establish average minimum score on multiple subject matter tests to qualify for certain teacher endorsements.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning teacher certification and supplementing chapter 26 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1. a. The Department of Education shall not require a teacher candidate seeking an instructional certificate with an elementary school teacher endorsement to achieve a minimum score on an individual subtest of a Commissioner-approved test on reading and language arts, mathematics, social studies, or science.

     b. The department shall require a teacher candidate seeking an instructional certificate with an elementary school teacher endorsement to achieve a minimum average score on the individual subtests of reading and language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science. The minimum average score shall be determined by the Commissioner of Education.

 

     2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits the Department of Education from requiring a teacher candidate seeking an instructional certificate with an elementary school teacher endorsement to achieve a minimum score on an individual subtest of a Commissioner-approved test on reading and language arts, mathematics, social studies, or science. Under the bill, the department is to require a teacher candidate seeking an instructional certificate with an elementary school teacher endorsement to achieve a minimum average score on the individual subtests of reading and language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science.  The bill requires the commissioner to determine the minimum average score.

     Currently, a teacher candidate seeking an instructional certificate with an elementary school teacher endorsement is required to achieve a passing score on a Reading and Language Arts subtest, Mathematics subtest, Social Studies subtest, and a Science subtest.