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October 4, 2023Education Commissioner Concedes State Tutoring Programs Are Falling Short of Projected Goals
In December 2022, ten months ago, Gov. Phil Murphy announced with great fanfare an initiative called called the New Jersey Partnership for Student Success, which would recruit 5,000 volunteers to provide high-dosage tutoring to students who lost learning during school closures and remote instruction.
Today at the State Board of Education public meeting, Murphy’s Commissioner, Angelica Allen-McMillan. acknowledged that the Education Department had recruited 517 tutors. That’s an improvement from March, when there were only 400 tutors, or eight percent of the target. Now, seven months later, the DOE has added another 100 tutors, bringing it 90 percent short of its goal.
Another initiative announced in February, with a price tag of $17 million, is the High Impact Tutoring and RAPID Educator Training Programs that, Allen-McMillan said, would establish “strategies that will accelerate our students’ learning,” According to today’s public presentation, this project has yet to get off the ground in any meaningful way.
