Utah Highly Qualified Status for Special Education

All educators must have a bachelor's degree and a Utah Special Education License to meet highly qualified teacher status for special education.

Teachers must then meet the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) core content requirements. See Utah's Highly Qualified Teacher's Framework for more information.

Please note that the Praxis^® Subject Assessments, Middle School English Language Arts (5047) and Middle School Mathematics (5169), are substituted here in place of English Language Arts: Content and Analysis (5039) and Mathematics: Content Knowledge (5161), which are taken for most other math and English licensing requirements.

If the subject area in which you are seeking to be highly qualified is not listed in the table below, you can find the appropriate content test listed in the licensure section.

In general, unless it is specifically stated that a calculator is permitted or required for a particular test, calculators may not be used on any Praxis tests (see Calculator Use).

• If you test in Utah at a testing center or using the Praxis at home solution, and your Praxis profile address is in Utah, your score report will be sent automatically to the Utah State Board of Education.
• If you test outside Utah or your Praxis profile address is not in Utah, your scores are not automatically sent to the Utah State Board of Education. To have your scores sent to the Utah State Board of Education, you must select the Utah State Board of Education (state code 8375) as a score recipient when you register.
• For all methods of Praxis testing, to request additional score reports you must select the Utah State Board of Education (state code 8375) with each additional score report request.