Groups Urge Governor Murphy to Prioritize Programs to Alleviate Learning Loss

Today more than 15 groups, comprised of education advocates, business associations, parents, and teachers, joined in urging Governor Murphy to prioritize the creation of statewide programs to alleviate learning loss.  Research is projecting not only staggering learning loss for the students of New Jersey, but also long-term negative economic impacts.  We should be acting now to allocate federal resources in a systematic and effective way to create statewide programs.  Tutoring, summer school, and extended school time are all known and proven strategies that can accelerate student learning.  This pandemic has the potential to exacerbate educational and economic inequities for an entire generation of students — we cannot wait for this crisis to subside to serve our students.