New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 60 - SCHOOL PERSONNEL - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part 5 - COMPETENCY TESTING FOR LICENSURE
Section 6.60.5.6 - OBJECTIVE

This rule is adopted by the "PED" for the purpose of establishing the New Mexico teacher assessments ("NMTA") as the primary acceptable examination for educator licensure in New Mexico. Although the PED adopts the New Mexico teacher assessments as the successor examination to the core battery of the national teachers examination, this rule also provides for acceptance of passing test scores from those applicants who took the core battery of the national teachers examination and have applied for licensure on or after July 30, 1999. This rule also establishes the New Mexico content knowledge assessments ("NMCKA"), which is part of the NMTA, as the content tests required to be taken to hold certain endorsements on teaching licenses or to receive an initial elementary K-8 license or pre K-12 special education license. This rule also establishes Prueba de Español para la Certificación Bilingüe as the PED's required Spanish language proficiency examination for persons seeking an endorsement to a teaching license in Spanish/English bilingual education and allows that test or its predecessor to be used as the content knowledge test to be taken for an endorsement in modern, classical and native languages for Spanish. This rule also allows the national family and consumer sciences test to be used as the content knowledge test to be taken for an endorsement in family and consumer sciences. Lastly, this rule establishes procedures for investigating NMTA testing irregularities and taking corrective action.