Teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools, according to a new law. Act 1669, which was signed into law ...

A New Jersey teachers union wants to change the state's standards for entering the profession. The Garden State currently requires that candidates for teacher certification pass a basic skills test ...

Frederick County students did better on this spring's Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills than they did last year, school officials said Thursday. The achievement test measures second-, fourth- and ...

Fourth-grade students in Charles County posted much higher reading scores on a national skills test that they retook after school administrators questioned the validity of the original results. After ...

The New Jersey Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, has asked its members to urge Gov. Phil Murphy to sign a bill into law that would eliminate the basic skills tests in reading, ...

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