Here's how millennials are keeping N.J. school enrollment flat

September 6, 2016

For three years in a row, the number of students in New Jersey’s public schools has declined slightly and begun to level off — a pattern James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, attributes to millennials’ choices.

Many of these young adults — roughly defined as those born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s — have prolonged starting families because of unstable financial situations, Hughes said.

NJ.com, September 6

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