As the world strives to return to normalcy, every week seems to bring us a deeper appreciation of the scale of learning loss and the human toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Newark the last two weeks delivered us the sad news that 9 of 10 students in Newark’s district schools are projected to fail…Read More…

Saying yes to expansion requests by top-performing schools would have cost the Murphy Administration almost nothing. The cost of saying no, however, is that hundreds of children across the state will have their education upended yet again, on the heels of two years of pandemic-related upheavals that exacerbated our already massive  academic achievement gaps.Read More…

The NJ Children’s Foundation submitted the following letter to the New Jersey Department of Education expressing vehement disagreement with the four letters submitted by the Newark school district last week. These four letters opposed the renewal applications submitted by four Newark charter schools. NJ Children’s Foundation is committed to speaking out on this issue, and…Read More…