As Phil Murphy succeeds Chris Christie as New Jersey's governor Tuesday, there's at least one thing students and teachers in the state's public schools can expect: an end to controversial PARCC testing.

But when and how that will happen remains unclear.

Murphy on Monday reiterated his campaign promise to eliminate the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career tests, which are computerized exams designed to be more challenging than previous standardize tests.

"The answer to the logistics of how it's done, honestly, I don't know," the Democrat said after an unrelated event in Ewing the day before he's set to be sworn in. "So bear with me on that. But soon."

New Jersey began PARCC testing in the 2014-15 school year. And though Christie,a Republican, dropped Common Core standards in 2015, he decided to keep PARCC in place.

Murphy said last week that his nominee for state education commissioner, Asbury Park schools superintendent Lamont Repollet, will help him do away with the tests.

"The notion of assessing kids to make sure we understand how they're doing, I'm all in for that," Murphy said Monday. "But these big, white-knuckle, once-a-year, with lots of weeks getting folks tuned up to take a particular test I'm not a fan of. Never have been."

He noted not only that he has four children but that one of his sisters is a retired teacher from Boston who is against the tests.

"We're into shorter feedback loops," Murphy said. "You take the test on Monday and you find out how you did on Friday or the next Monday or something like that."

"I think educators should be first and foremost at the table to figure out what the actual best model is," he added.

Marie Blistan, president of the New Jersey Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, recently told WHYY that "the entire testing system needs to be reviewed, and, absolutely, I question whether the PARCC test is the appropriate test to use in any way, shape, or form here."

The NJEA -- one of Christie's foes the last eight years -- endorsed Murphy in last year's election.

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