New Jersey
New Jersey's education accountability system identifies schools for Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI), Additional Targeted Support (ATSI), and Targeted Support (TSI). Every designation requires measurement infrastructure that identifies which students need help — and whether they're getting it.
NJDOE has the assessments. What's missing is the verification layer.
That's what VERA provides.
600+ districts across New Jersey. 100,000+ ELL students statewide.
Accountability Designations
New Jersey's accountability system identifies schools and districts for targeted support. Each designation triggers intervention requirements — but do those interventions reach the students who need them most?
CSI
Schools in the bottom 5% of performance, or with graduation rates below 67%. Requires comprehensive needs assessment and evidence-based interventions.
ATSI
Schools with student subgroups performing at CSI level. Requires targeted interventions for specific populations — but which students within those subgroups?
TSI
Schools with chronically underperforming subgroups. The designation exists. The infrastructure to verify intervention effectiveness does not.
New Jersey's Data Infrastructure
New Jersey operates comprehensive education data systems. NJSLA assessments, School Performance Reports, NJSLEDS longitudinal tracking — millions of data points.
Speaking, listening, reading, writing scores for English Language Learners across all grades.
New Jersey Student Learning Assessments in ELA, Mathematics, and Science with claim-level breakdowns.
New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment for high school graduation requirements.
Public accountability data with district-level performance metrics, demographics, and growth data.
Are the state's interventions actually reaching the students who need them most? Every system measures outcomes — what a student scored, whether they graduated. None measures whether the intervention a district funded is reaching the right student, in the right way, at the right time. That is the accountability gap New Jersey must close.
The Student No System Sees
The child who can speak English fluently but cannot write it at grade level. Present in every large district. Invisible in every aggregate report. No accountability system in New Jersey — or anywhere — identifies these students by name.
VERA uses ACCESS for ELLs speaking scores against NJSLA ELA writing scores to compute a district-level oral-written delta that identifies precisely which populations have been left behind.
In Newark's Grade 7 ELL population, speaking proficiency exceeds writing by 34 scale score points. These students are receiving oral language support when they need writing intervention.
That's not a data anomaly. It's thousands of students.
The Platform
The Verification Engine for Results and Accountability is live, built on New Jersey's existing public data, producing district-level oral-written delta measurements today. No new data collection. No new burden on districts.
VERA produces the evidentiary foundation for everything ESSA accountability requires: verification that CSI interventions reach CSI students, that ATSI supports target the right subgroups, that TSI designations trigger appropriate responses.
Not more dashboards. Not more designations. Verification that interventions actually reach the students who need them.
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