New York certification through a comparable out-of-state program

Initial Certificate → Completion Of A Comparable Educator Program In Another U.S. State. This pathway covers 94 certificate titles, and the requirements below apply to every one of them.

Requirements shared by all 94 titles

Minimum 2.50 Undergraduate GPA
New York State Teacher Certification Exam - Educating All Students Test (EAS)
Workshop - School Violence Intervention and Prevention
Workshop - Child Abuse Identification (Second Update)
Workshop - Dignity For All Students Act
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Your certificate title may require additional subject-specific exams or coursework beyond this shared baseline. Those are attached to the title you apply for, not to the pathway as a whole.

Certificate titles this pathway covers

94 titles are included. A sample:

Agriculture
Biology (Grades 5-9)
Biology 7-12
Blind And Visually Impaired
Business And Marketing
Chemistry (Grades 5-9)

Where this list comes from

The requirements above are computed from NYSED's own per-pathway requirement table, not written by hand. The page takes the intersection across every certificate title in the pathway, so nothing here is generalised from a single subject.

Source table: I-07 Completion Of A Comparable Educator Program In Another U. S. State / I-07 VariationTable.xlsx

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The list above is the shared baseline. Your certificate title adds subject-specific exams and coursework on top, and those differ from title to title — which is why we do not generalise them here. The free assessment returns the checklist for your own title.

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Sources

NYSED teacher certification requirementslink checked 2026-10-30

CertBridge summarizes public NYSED material. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the New York State Education Department, and the issuing agency makes the final determination on every application. Requirements change — confirm specifics on the official pages above before you rely on them.