John Mooney is the founding editor of NJ Spotlight, starting the news site in 2009 after more than 30 years in print journalism. Before NJ Spotlight, John was an education reporter with the Newark Star-Ledger and the Bergen Record and a contributing writer for The New York Times.
There’s little disagreement that the state needs to determine how much ‘learning loss’ has occurred. The argument is about the best way to collect data