NJEA: Major win for students and educators! NJ eliminates edTPA requirement
| Major win for students and educators! NJ eliminates edTPA requirement |
| TRENTON, NJ — Earlier today, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill to eliminate edTPA as a requirement for teacher certification in New Jersey, a top priority for NJEA for several years. Over the last two years, thousands of NJEA members, along with many education stakeholder partners, lobbied for this critical change. It was due large in part to those efforts that the bill garnered unanimous support in the Legislature prior to being signed today.
First imposed in New Jersey under Gov. Chris Christie, edTPA proved to be a cumbersome, costly and discriminatory obstacle that frustrated future educators and kept qualified candidates out of New Jersey classrooms. In the current staffing crisis, its elimination is a welcome step forward that will provide immediate benefits to our schools and students as approximately 500 potential educators will become immediately eligible for certification. NJEA’s officers, President Sean M. Spiller, Vice President Steve Beatty, and Secretary-Treasurer Petal Robertson, issued this statement commending the change: Read more>> |
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