{"id":2862,"date":"2020-04-08T19:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/?page_id=2862"},"modified":"2021-08-26T19:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:22:27","slug":"covid-19coronavirus-updates-for-teacher-preparation-programs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/covid-19coronavirus-updates-for-teacher-preparation-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19\/Coronavirus Updates for Teacher Preparation Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The Mississippi State Board of Education in collaboration with the Mississippi Department of Education has taken the following actions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Suspended (waived) the test requirements for program entry at both the traditional (undergraduate) and nontraditional (MAT) through December 31, 2021.\u00a0Students must still meet GPA requirements.\u00a0On January 1, 2022, test prerequisites will be reinstated and students must again adhere to all requirements<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Suspended (waived) the licensure requirements of various tests when applicants are applying for licenses through December 31, 2021. On January 1, 2022, prerequisites will be reinstated and students must again adhere to all requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">If you have additional questions, you may access the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdek12.org\/COVID19\">https:\/\/www.mdek12.org\/COVID19<\/a><\/strong> for full details and a complete list of State Board of Education policy suspensions.\u00a0 You may also contact the Center for Teacher Quality at 601-979-4111.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Mississippi State Board of Education in collaboration with the Mississippi Department of Education has taken the following actions: Suspended (waived) the test requirements for program entry at both the traditional (undergraduate) and nontraditional (MAT) through December 31, 2021.\u00a0Students must still meet GPA requirements.\u00a0On January 1, 2022, test prerequisites will be reinstated and students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_mc_calendar":[]},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2862\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}