New Jersey Tutoring Corps Opens 2025 With Thirty-Two Tutoring Locations Across the Garden State
“Thanks to the support of Governor Phil Murphy, First Lady Tammy Murphy, and our legislative champions, Senate Majority Leader Teresa Ruiz and Senate Education Committee Chair Vin Gopal, NJTC has become a national model for tutoring across the country.”
[New Jersey – February 5, 2025] - The New Jersey Tutoring Corps, Inc. (NJTC) announced today that it is working this school year with thirty-two tutoring sites in school districts and public charter schools throughout the Garden State, serving an estimated 2000 students statewide.
Launched during the 2022-23 school year, NJTC initially served approximately 500 scholars. Since then, it has become a needed focal point for advocating and expanding tutoring in New Jersey and has scaled to serve over 12,500 scholars in 247 locations, creating 740 jobs for residents. The most recent independent third-party evaluation showed that NJTC scholars' grade-level performance jumped by 550% in math and 150% in literacy after just one year of NJTC tutoring.
Anchoring this dramatic increase in tutoring has been the consistent support it has received from Governor Phil Murphy, Senate Majority Leader Teresa Ruiz, and Senate Education Committee Chair Vin Gopal during the last three budget cycles.
"Thanks to the support of Governor Phil Murphy, First Lady Tammy Murphy, and our legislative champions, Senate Majority Leader Teresa Ruiz and Senate Education Committee Chair Vin Gopal, NJTC has become a national model for high-impact tutoring across the country,” stated NJTC Chief Executive Officer Katherine Bassett. "We know that quality high-impact tutoring is one of the few solidly proven educational interventions available, but what we have in New Jersey is executive and legislative leadership that understands that fact and has acted swiftly, consistently, and aggressively to help build NJTC. Over the last three years, we have implemented a laser-like focus on bringing New Jersey scholars in grades k-8 who are furthest behind to, or close to, grade-level proficiency in math and literacy. In addition to the tremendous support and friendship of our elected leaders, I also want to thank our partners, both school and community, and the members of our NJTC team who have so passionately dedicated their lives to serving public students throughout the state. We are very excited and grateful in 2025 to announce our school-year partners, some of which started programs in September and others just starting in January."
Those tutoring sites will include the following New Jersey School District and New Jersey Public Charter Schools: Clinton Township, Gloucester Township, Hamilton Township, iLearn Charter School, Lawrence Township, Monmouth County Boys and Girls Clubs, Paterson Charter School Science & Technology, Pemberton Township, Penns Grove - Carneys Point Regional School District, Riverton School District, Salem City School District, and Waterford Township School District.
“We saw the children who worked with NJTC experience growth in their reading abilities, leading to more confidence and success in the classroom,” stated Jeanne Muzi, Lawrence Township School District.
“We are happy to partner with NJTC to support our students’ academic progress,” stated Gurkan Kose, iLearn Chief Academic Officer.
“The district and company have formed a true partnership focusing on one goal – student success. I view NJTC staff as members of our instruction staff,” Anthony Scotto, Hamilton Township School District, Curriculum, Director
“After three months, we experienced growth in mathematics standards by over 90% of our students who participated in the small group tutoring sessions. I look forward to our continued partnership and observing the individual growth of our rockstar students,” Josh Zagorski, Superintendent/Principal, Riverton School District.
Today's announcement caps two significant developments by NJTC in the last year. Last Fall, the National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA) at Stanford University announced that NJTC had received its prestigious national "Tutoring Program Design Badge," formally indicating that NJTC meets the highest tutoring standards and aligns with the national principles of all Tutoring Quality Standards. In addition, earlier this year, the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) named NJTC as the first tutoring provider in the country to be provided the formal designation as a federally Registered Apprentice Pathway (RAP).
Initially established by First Lady Tammy Murphy, Laura Overdeck, and anchor institutions such as the Overdeck Family Foundation, the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund, the New Jersey Children's Foundation, the Prudential Foundation, and the Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation, NJTC serves as a needed corrective response to the state's dramatic learning gaps exacerbated by the pandemic. NJTC's model is co-designed with schools, districts, and community partners, ensuring its research-based, evidence-rich program meets individual partners' needs. NJTC staff members provide responsive, personalized, hands-on instruction aligned to New Jersey state standards. Partners co-design each implementation. Tutors are often embedded in classrooms during the school day and receive support from instructional coaches and site coordinators. Tutors serve scholars in 30 to 60-minute embedded sessions during the school day, after school, or in summer programs two to three times per week. The program provides a 1:1 up to 1:3 tutor-to-scholar ratio, with the same tutor working with the same scholars throughout a program cycle, following the recommendations of the Annenberg Institute.