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How are New Jersey’s public schools doing? Depends if you live in Moorestown or Willingboro.

The New Jersey Education Association, NJ’s primary teacher union, trumpets, “New Jersey’s schools are the best in the nation!”

But a non-profit, Advocates for Children of New Jersey, counters, “an analysis of third graders’ performance on state reading tests from the 2009-2010 school year shows only 42 percent of traditional public school students and 46 percent of charter school students are proficient.”

Which is it? Well, it all depends on your zip code.

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