A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for certification ... report from the state’s education department.

and echoes some of the reasons in New York State’s Education Department’s own decision not to send a certification letter. New Jersey schools receive about $1.2 billion in federal assistance ...

New Jersey’s education chief is standing ... The federal Education Department said that states that didn’t sign the certification would lose federal education funding. Cutting off federal ...