So… what is “maintenance of equity” and why is it critical & easy for @NJGov (particularly @NJSenatePres @SpeakerCoughlin @GovMurphy) to enforce this critical component of @JoeBiden’s American Rescue Plan. A thread. (1/ Inside the ARP, which provided critical relief to @NJGov, our schools & municipalities, are provisions about what states must do for schools when they accept that money. One of these is “maintenance of equity,” which was put in after advocacy by @EdTrust & others. Txt below. (2/

The funding crisis facing Jersey City students is not theoretical. And it’s becoming more real as information comes out. Here’s some of what we’ve learned in recent weeks and are presenting to the council today. This includes classroom targets at 27 students for Kindergarten classrooms, 28 for grades 1-5, 29 for grades 6-8. (This is a significant increase from 2017-2018 when the targets were 21 for Kindergarten, 23 for grades 1-3, 24 for grades 4-5, 25 for grades 6-8.)