Performance
Despite decades of strong state funding for Abbott schools, the results are at best mixed. Early education programs including free preschool helped close part of the gaps for Fourth graders whose performance gap "narrowed from 31 points in 1999 to 19 points in 2007, and on state reading tests from 22 points in 2001 to 15 points in 2007." However, as students advanced in grade, their relative performance gains were lost, such that high school students showed no improvement at all and one expert, the Assistant Commissioner at the New Jersey Department of Education from 2002 to 2007 stated, "When you get to middle school, eighth grade, high school – forget about it. This has been a huge failure."
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