What We're Fighting For

We need to provide every student the opportunity to enroll in  Pre-K in through their local public school.

Preschool is incredibly important because it teaches students early academic skills, develops their social skills, and provides parents with reliable childcare. 

In some of our communities, families need to win a lottery to secure a spot for their kid; in others, preschool can be as much as $10,000 a year.

Our system is denying kids the opportuniites they need to be successful, and it must change.

We need to revisit how we fund our public schools to prevent wild swings in funding.

The current school formula is leaving our local school systems with multi-million dollar deficits. We need to revisit it in a transparent process that includes community input.

We also need to find a way to avoid wild year-to-year swings in school funding. School funding should be awarded for three-years at a time with opportunities for schools to apply for additional funding due to increased enrollment. 

We need to expand the Garden State Guarantee to cover all four years of undergraduate tuition.

Each year, thousands of eligible New Jersey students take advantage of the Garden State Guarantee, a program which provides two years of college tuition to eligible graduates. Currently, the program requires students to attend two years of community college before applying. This leads many students to take unncessary classes to fulfill the two year-requirement and denies students the opportunity to make important on-campus connections during their freshman and sophomore year.