Pre-K teacher Vera Csizmadia teaches 3- and 4-year-old students in her classroom at the Dr. Charles Smith Early Childhood Center, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, in Palisades Park, N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy tou

New Jersey's Segregated Schools

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 10, 2023

John Mooney, founding editor of NJ Spotlight News, talks about the launch of a cross-newsroom collaboration examining the lack of racial and economic diversity in New Jersey's public schools, despite the diversity in the population as a whole. And Javier Robles, vice president of the Latino Action Network of New Jersey (LAN) and Rutgers professor in the Kinesiology and Health department, discusses the soon-to-be-decided lawsuit brought by LAN and NAACP and others in 2018 over the lack of diversity in New Jersey's schools.

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