The first thing I did this morning was to call the state certification office to make sure that taking the praxis (0041) would be all I needed to do in order to add a Secondary English certification. I waited twelve minutes for a thirty second call to confirm that a passing score (160) and the state paperwork were all that was necessary.

Then I created an ETS account and registered for the exam. Seventeen minutes from start to finish, although I think this might have been a browser issue on my end (fussy chrome extensions). And my credit card is $130 lighter. It is kind of amazing that every teacher in Pennsylvania has to pony up money directly to ETS if they want a certification. Why haven’t individual states gotten into this business? There’s overhead to start but it’d be a license to print money and you’d have total control over the process.