According to information from an NVRA insider, the California license is now obtainable if you have NVRA’s cert. RPRs don’t have this reciprocity via NCRA’s cert. A massive failure of the National Court Reporters Association and all the money spent on it.
Look at what you’re getting for your money with NCRA. Stenonymous does more advertising and search engine operations to end the shortage and call attention to court reporting. Protect Your Record Project does more advocacy in calling out the dishonesty of larger corporations. Now NVRA’s certification has an edge in one of the largest court reporting states in the country (and frankly, one of the largest GDPs in the world). All these smaller organizations seem to have more ability to impact the real world on the regular and for the regular working reporter. They do more for the people that believe in them and take part in them.
Maybe it’s time to slaughter the sacred cow called the National Court Reporters Association. We are starving while feeding a beast that never has enough money to do what has to be done while absorbing more money than any other player on the field.
NVRA has just made its membership that much more valuable. Take it or leave it, students and working reporters. I personally picked up a membership.
National Verbatim Reporters Association is ending its reciprocity for the RPR in a couple of months. The bottom line is that RPRs have low pass rates in California while CVRs tend to test well. The NVRA can no longer trust the NCRA’s cert, so it makes logical sense that they’re ending the reciprocity on December 31st, 2024.
That’s the scoop. I’m going back to my writing hiatus. I will continue to approve comments that come in.
Wow. This is interesting!!!