Bill Text: NJ S187 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee [S187 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S187-Introduced.html

SENATE, No. 187

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  VINCENT J. POLISTINA

District 2 (Atlantic)

Senator  RENEE C. BURGESS

District 28 (Essex)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Johnson

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  


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.    The State Board of Education shall not adopt any regulation or policy which restricts the number of semester-hour credits earned in the field of professional education at a regionally accredited two-year college that may be accepted toward meeting the requirements for teacher certification, provided that  the credits are accepted by a State-approved college professional education preparation program.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits the State Board of Education from limiting the number of professional education credits earned at a regionally accredited two-year college that may be applied towards meeting the requirements for teacher certification, provided that the credits are accepted by a State-approved college professional education preparation program.

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