In March, education advocate David Sciarra will step down as head of New Jersey’s Education Law Center after 26 years at the helm. As a civil rights attorney, Sciarra litigated cases on everything from affordable housing to homelessness. He championed education rights for low-income students and students of color, securing groundbreaking requirements from the New Jersey Supreme Court on school funding in the landmark Abbott v. Burke case.
In an interview with NJ Spotlight News, Sciarra said, “I don’t intend to walk away from the ongoing efforts in the struggle for educational equity. We still have a lot of work to do; it almost never ends … I’ll do what I can to continue to help out the cause.”
Sciarra will be replaced as executive director of the center by Robert Kim, a leading expert in education law and policy and author of “Elevating Equity and Justice.”
