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