Education Community Colleges Resist Budgetary Cuts - Community colleges statewide have spoken out against a $20 million reduction in state aid which will halt colleges’ expansion plans and force them to raise tuition and cut programming and services. State aid should account for a third of funding for community colleges, yet 55% of funding currently comes [...]
By Sania Murtuza, Tai Vu, & Yao Sun, Ph.D. With the intention of developing an interactive map for Jersey City, Newark, and Trenton, the research team first obtained zip code data for New Jersey from an online dataset [...]
By Bernie Lombardi, Ph.D., Betsy Kim, Ph.D., and Robyn Ince, Ed.M. As part of our ongoing study funded by the New Jersey State Policy Lab on youth who were disconnected from college during COVID-19 in Newark, we conducted focus groups [...]
Education Assembly Education Committee Advances ‘Freedom to Read’ Bill - The Assembly Education Committee advanced on June 6 A3446, a bill which requires local districts to create policies on book curation in school and public libraries that bar the removal of books based on authors’ backgrounds, origins, or views. The legislation would also make librarians immune [...]
Photo ©: Block Wind Farm By Jessica Parineet Offshore wind development is in its early stages in the United States, with just under one gigawatt (GW) of utility scale capacity constructed[1][2]. State decarbonization goals have catalyzed industry progress thus far, however the Biden administration has increased federal support, including a national goal to deploy [...]
By Vishal Trehan, Stephanie Walsh, Gregory Porumbescu, and Andrea Hetling. Digital skills are increasingly essential for citizens to access and utilize online government services effectively. However, there are also reports of disparities in digital skill levels [...]
Education Legislators Advance Measures to Address Teacher Shortage - On May 20, the state Senate passed two pieces of legislation to alleviate NJ’s teacher shortage. S1287 would bar officials from requiring teaching candidates to pass a basic skills test to obtain teaching certification. Some testing requirements would remain for candidates in specific subject areas. The bill [...]
By Carla Villacis. As researchers, there is a systematic process for conducting research that has been ingrained in us through our training. First, we identify the topic, research question, and target population [...]
State of Affairs with Steve Adubato on NJ PBS interviewed NJSPL Policy Fellow Linda Stamato regarding her personal crusade to support and protect local journalism.
By Marilyn Rubin. On his first day in office in January 2021, President Biden signed Federal Executive Order #13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government, directing federal agencies [...]
