{"id":2387422,"date":"2025-01-07T13:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T18:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-a-joke-nj-dems-just-ended-reading-writing-test-requirements-for-teachers\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T13:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T18:41:43","slug":"not-a-joke-nj-dems-just-ended-reading-writing-test-requirements-for-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-a-joke-nj-dems-just-ended-reading-writing-test-requirements-for-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Joke: NJ Dems Just Ended Reading, Writing Test Requirements for Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnot-a-joke-nj-dems-just-ended-reading-writing-test-requirements-for-teachers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2387422&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u2064text discusses a recent law passed in New\u2063 Jersey, known as bill A1669, which removes the requirement for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/universities-race-based-hiring-policies-are-present-injustices-meant-to-fix-past-ones\/\" title=\"Universities\u2019 Race-Based Hiring Policies Are Present Injustices Meant To Fix Past Ones\">teaching candidates<\/a> to\u200b pass basic academic skills tests to \u2062obtain their teaching certificates. Approved\u2064 on June 28, 2024, \u2062and signed \u2064by Governor Phil Murphy, the\u200b bill \u200bis seen\u2063 by critics as \u200da move to lower educational standards in response to \u200da teacher shortage. the\u200d piece raises basic\u200c questions about the effectiveness \u2063of state certification in improving education quality,\u2064 arguing that\u200b the current\u2063 system creates bureaucratic\u2062 barriers rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">fostering genuine teaching competency<\/a>. It\u2062 suggests that \u200cto attract quality teachers, the state should dismantle existing certification requirements and allow\u200d schools to implement \u2062their own \u200drigorous hiring \u200dand assessment \u2062processes.The argument emphasizes a shift\u2063 from\u200b government control over \u2063teacher certification to local \u2063decision-making in education.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Every story of this kind should begin with the same question. Otherwise, one misses the fundamental point.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, if we could create a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-unions-nightmare-study-shows-charter-schools-more-cost-effective-than-district-schools\/\" title=\"Teachers\u2019 Unions Nightmare: Study Shows Charter Schools More Cost-Effective Than District Schools\">public education system<\/a> from scratch, would it look anything like the one we have?<\/p>\n<p>If the answer is &ldquo;no&rdquo; &mdash; and it should be &ldquo;no&rdquo; &mdash; then the <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Party_control_of_New_Jersey_state_government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrat-controlled<\/a> New Jersey state legislature&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njleg.state.nj.us\/bill-search\/2024\/A1669\/bill-text?f=AL24&amp;n=26_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill A1669<\/a>, which prohibited the State Board of Education from requiring certificate-seeking teaching candidates to pass a basic academic skills test, amounts to lipstick on a pig.<\/p>\n<p>Approved on June 28, 2024, and signed into law by Democratic Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dem-gov-offers-pathetic-excuse-kamalas-refusal-talk-media-plenty-time-interviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phil Murphy<\/a>, the bill took effect on Wednesday, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/06\/us-news\/new-jersey-ends-basic-reading-and-writing-skills-test-requirement-for-teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Section 1b, the bill&rsquo;s major provision, established the ban on testing.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the State Board of Education shall not require a candidate seeking a certificate of eligibility, a certificate of eligibility with advanced standing, a provisional certificate, or a standard instructional certificate to complete a Commissioner of Education-approved test of basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills including, but not limited to, the Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators test, in order to obtain a certificate of eligibility, a certificate of eligibility with advanced standing, a provisional certificate, or a standard instructional certificate,&rdquo; the section read.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Democrats supported the bill for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives, however, must be clear and honest about why we should oppose said bill.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Post, in 2023 the New Jersey Education Association characterized skills testing as a &ldquo;barrier&rdquo; to certification.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, to solve a teacher shortage, Democrats decided to lower the standards.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need more teachers,&rdquo; Democratic state Sen. Jim Beach said when the bill was passed. &ldquo;This is the best way to get them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The notion that one improves upon a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/never-students-teachers-union-demands-billions-homeless-migrants-lgbt-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bad system<\/a> by making things easier would occur only to a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, conservatives should respond by asking a more fundamental question: Namely, why should the state certify teachers at all? In other words, why do we give the government a monopoly on deciding who has the competence to teach?<\/p>\n<p>Consider, for instance, the present state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lgbt-indoctrination-push-suffer-massive-blow-state-gop-advances-massive-public-school-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public education<\/a>. Has requiring teachers to obtain a state certificate resulted in higher quality education for children? Or, has it merely produced a bureaucratic monopoly on education policy?<\/p>\n<p>For prospective teachers, the real &ldquo;barrier&rdquo; has nothing to do with reading, writing, or mathematics tests.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the real &ldquo;barrier&rdquo; &mdash; the factor that makes excellent undergraduate students recoil from the prospect of a teaching career &mdash; involves certification itself, for certification means completion of a comically absurd education curriculum, which many education students themselves, in honest and private moments with professors in their fields, have mocked as unserious and therefore beneath contempt.<\/p>\n<p>In short, if Democrats want to attract quality teachers, then they should destroy the current education cartel. No longer should bureaucrats set education standards of any kind. After all, have we not had enough of so-called &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/shame-gop-rep-torches-fauci-comments-making-people-get-vaccinated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experts<\/a>&ldquo;?<\/p>\n<p>Instead, allow public schools to conduct their own screening processes. Since those processes will determine the quality of the community&rsquo;s teachers, we may rely upon their rigor.<\/p>\n<p>Then, having put their prospective teachers through rigorous interviews, let those schools hire whomever they choose. 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If we were to design a public education system from the ground up, would it resemble our current one? If the answer is &#8220;no&#8221; \u2014 and it ought to be &#8220;no&#8221; \u2014 then the New Jersey state legislature&#8217;s Bill A1669, which prevents the State Board of Education from mandating that teaching candidates pass a basic academic skills test, is merely superficial reform. Passed on June 28, 2024, and signed into law by Democratic Governor Phil Murphy, this bill took effect recently. Its main provision prohibits testing for various teaching certificates. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats supported this legislation for misguided reasons. Conservatives must clearly articulate their opposition to it. The New Jersey Education Association labeled skills testing as an obstacle to certification in 2023; thus, Democrats opted to lower standards in response to a teacher shortage. Democratic state Senator Jim Beach stated that easing requirements was the best way to attract more teachers.<\/p>\n<p>However, conservatives should pose a more fundamental question: Why does the state even certify teachers? Does requiring state certification lead to better educational outcomes for students or simply create bureaucratic control over education policy? <\/p>\n<p>For aspiring educators, the true &#8220;barrier&#8221; isn&#8217;t related to tests in reading or math but rather stems from the absurdity of certification itself\u2014often seen as trivial by many education students during candid discussions with their professors.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, if Democrats aim to recruit quality teachers, they should dismantle the existing educational bureaucracy and allow schools autonomy in hiring without mandatory certifications after thorough evaluations of potential candidates&#8217; capabilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2387423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Classroom.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[37383,48065,48068,48067,48066],"class_list":["post-2387422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-education-reform","tag-nj-dems","tag-reading-writing-skills","tag-standardized-testing","tag-teacher-requirements"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Classroom.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387432,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387422\/revisions\/2387432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}