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Adams was placed on paid administrative leave by the Board of Education. Adams has had a contentious relationship with the union since taking charge two years ago, and it boiled over at the Feb. 22 meeting when the board voted 5-2 to place Adams on paid ad- ministrative leave. The district is still on the hook to pay Adams more than $400,000 for his contract, which run out until the middle of 2026, and the school board has yet to say what the long-term plans for district Banished schools chief still owed over $400K Asbury contract run out until the middle of 2026 Charles Daye Asbury Park Press USA TODAY NETWORK NEW JERSEY See SCHOOLS, Page 2A ost students in New Jersey are still behind in math four years after the CO- VID-19 pandemic hit, according to a study by researchers from Harvard and Stanford universities that measured school districts nationwide on a common scale. And a report commissioned by the Murphy administration released this month said that New school children learning losses during the pandemic, more in math than reading.
Losses would have been far less had schools re- opened in person earlier, said the report, compiled by Boston Consulting Group and a law to examine the response to COVID. The state-commissioned report measured learn- ing loss by comparing math and reading scores on a nationally administered test, the National Assess- ment for Education Progress, or NAEP, in 2019 and 2022 before the pandemic began and after the health emergency ended. Eighth graders showed the sharpest declines in math, by 11 points, compared to the national average drop in math scores on the NAEP of 8 points. The state was aware of this in October 2022, yet by legislators to formally target learning loss in the Department of Education have failed. State Sen.
Teresa Ruiz, D-Essex and the Senate majority leader, has sponsored a bundle of four bills to create a learning loss czar in the department, now headed by Kevin Dehmer, who replaced former Acting Commis- sioner Angelica Allen-McMillan after she retired in January. Ruiz has said that the state approached the issue with urgency. A year and half later, most New Jersey students are still lagging, by a lot. The Harvard-Stanford study, called the Education Recovery Scorecard, looked at New Jersey Student Learn- ing Assessment test scores to study academic recovery. If New schoolchildren con- tinue catching up at their current pace, they would need an additional three years to return to 2019-level scores in math, said the authors of the Harvard-Stan- ford study.
With the round of federal COVID relief funds set to expire in October, school leaders have just a few months left to rethink spending plans. Schools should divert remaining federal aid to learning reme- diation programs, the Harvard-Stanford study au- thors said. LAGGING BEHIND Marina Moore-Tuesta teaches students in her kindergarten class phonemic awareness and foundational reading skills at Clifton School 17. Most students in New Jersey are still behind in math four years after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, according to a study by researchers from Harvard and Stanford universities. MICHAEL New K-12 students playing catch up on math, reading four years after COVID-19 struck Mary Ann Koruth NorthJersey.com USA TODAY NETWORK NEW JERSEY Ruiz See LEARNING LOSS, Page 2A It was 3 a.m.
and raining hard one recent night when Howell resident Michael Herlihy accepted a DoorDash order him $15 to deliver food from White Castle to two customers who lived 11 miles away in Freehold. Herlihy accepted. He got in his car, picked up the food, made the two deliveries then clicked on the DoorDash app to see the breakdown in his pay. Most of it came from one generous gratuity. The base pay from DoorDash, once $2 just two months ear- lier, had been cut by saw I got paid $1 for each delivery, and one of the customers even leave me a Herlihy, 60, said.
have to use my gratuity money to pay for gas. To me just insulting they would actually lower base pay that Herlihy is among the workers participating in the so-called gig economy, driving not as a traditional em- ployee, but as an independent contractor for compa- nies like DoorDash and Uber Eats. How are DoorDash drivers paid? They are heavily dependent on generosity of tips Michael L. Diamond Asbury Park Press USA TODAY NETWORK NEW JERSEY See DOORDASH, Page 5A The median home in Monmouth County listed for $841,223 in February, up from the previous $808,750, an analysis of data from Realtor- shows. Compared to February 2023, the median home list price increased 12.2% from $699,950.
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