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“Basic Skills” Test No Longer Required for NJ Teachers

New Jersey teachers no longer need to be educated in order to educate your kids, apparently. 

Starting the first day of 2025, a new state law rules that educators may now become certified teachers without needing to pass a “basic skills” test administered by New Jersey’s Commissioner of Education, the Daily Caller News Foundationreports.  

The exam, which included a basic required reading, writing and mathematics assessment was considered “an unnecessary barrier to entering the profession” by none other than the state’s Education Association (Our entitled teacher’s union strikes again.) 

With enough squawking, they got Democrat State Senator Jim Beach to sponsor Act 1669, a bill passed by Democrat Governor Phil Murphy as part of the state’s budget in July. Beach called it the “best way” to ameliorate an apparent shortage of teachers…

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