Publications

As of May 2023, the National Student Clearinghouse published their annual Current Term Enrollment Estimates, painting a bleak picture of the state of college enrollment across the nation. Public two-year enrollments dropped 10.1% over the preceding year in 2021, 8.2% in 2022, and rose 0.5% in 2023, respectively.

Declining enrollment is an issue that has plagued schools across America for the greater part of the last decade.

Through collaborations with the Joseph C. Cornwall Center at Rutgers-Newark, the New Jersey State Policy Lab has provided ongoing, rigorous research on the subject of discipline disparities in New Jersey K-12 schools through multiple reports and articles.[i][ii] Generally, the researchers have concluded that schools in New Jersey that are more segregated in terms of racial […]

New Jersey is consistent in featuring at the top of the ranks for two different variables: effective real estate property tax rates and quality of K-12 education services.[1][2] These, unsurprisingly to most who reside here, are not unrelated in the slightest. Each of New Jersey’s whopping 599 school districts is funded to a significant degree […]