Bill Text: NJ A3983 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs State Board of Education to authorize general science endorsement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-07 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A3983 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3983-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3983

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 7, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ROSY BAGOLIE

District 27 (Essex and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Directs State Board of Education to authorize general science endorsement.

 

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 State Board of Education shall authorize a general science endorsement to the instructional certificate.  The endorsement shall entitle the holder to teach a biological science, chemistry, earth science, physical science, or physics course in grades nine through 12.  The State board shall establish appropriate requirements for the endorsement that provide a teacher with the special knowledge and skills necessary to work with students in these grades.

     b. Teachers holding a biological science, chemistry, earth science, physical science, or physics endorsement prior to the establishment of the general science endorsement pursuant to subsection a. of this section may, upon application to the State Board of Examiners subject to requirements to be established by the board, be issued the general science endorsement pursuant to subsection a. of this section.

 

     2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill directs the State Board of Education to authorize the issuance of a general science endorsement to the instructional certificate.  The endorsement authorizes the holder to teach a biological science, chemistry, earth science, physical science, or physics course in grades nine through 12.  The bill requires the State board to establish appropriate requirements for the endorsement that provide a teacher with the special knowledge and skills necessary to work with students in these grades.

     The bill permits teachers holding a biological science, chemistry, earth science, physical science, or physics endorsement prior to the establishment of the general science endorsement, upon application to the State Board of Examiners, to be issued the general science endorsement established by the bill.