By John Mooney
Senate President Sweeney uses venue to announce preschool services, full-day kindergarten among his ‘top-five’ priorities
New Jersey holds a unique position in the national discussion about public preschool.
For the better part of a decade, the state has been seen as having one of the nation’s more generous models of publicly funded preschool, one largely spawned by the Abbott v. Burke school-equity rulings and serving more than 40,000 children in more than 30 of the state’s neediest districts.
But for at least the past six years, New Jersey’s attempts to expand the state-funded program into more districts have run into tough economic realities — even as other states have lurched ahead.
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