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The MDRC Center for Criminal Justice Research released a new study today showing that New Jersey’s Criminal Justice Reform Act is helping to reduce arrests, increase the use of summonses in lieu of warrants, and increase the number of defendants released without conditions.

A new study by MDRC and colleagues in Early Childhood Research Quarterly details efforts by the Boston Public Schools to align instruction and professional development in the early grades through the implementation of a pre-k to second grade model.

Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP)™ is an ambitious multistate effort to boost employment and educational opportunities for young people who are navigating some of life’s most challenging circumstances, including homelessness and involvement in the child welfare or justice systems.

Mary Jo Bane, chair of the MDRC Board of Directors, announced today that, after a nationwide search, Virginia Knox has been appointed the next president of MDRC, succeeding Gordon Berlin. Knox will assume her new role on October 15, 2019.