HB-4084 Summary

• Eliminates the requirement for teachers to complete a 3-credit course in reading disability diagnosis and remediation to advance from provisional to professional certification.

• Removes the basic skills examination requirement for both elementary and secondary teacher certification candidates, requiring only subject area examinations.

• Allows out-of-state teachers with valid teaching certificates to receive Michigan professional education certificates without passing basic skills or subject area examinations if they have 3+ years successful teaching experience and 18+ semester credit hours of additional coursework.

• Removes basic skills examination requirements from the definition of examination types and modifies examination administration procedures to eliminate the basic skills examination as a prerequisite for student teaching enrollment.

• Updates terminology throughout the statute, replacing "a person" with "an individual" and "pursuant to" with "under" for consistency.