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NJ Monitor: NJEA President Spiller’s “Highly Unusual” Campaign for Governor Is Being Funded by Teachers’ Regular Dues Without Their Knowledge or Approval
Posted On03/11/2025 byKudos to New Jersey Monitor‘s Dana Difilippo for her excellent article on NJEA President Sean Spiller’s “highly unusual” campaign for governor. We commend Ms. Difilippo and the Monitor for not being in the tank for the NJEA the way New Jersey Globe is. Independent journalism is not dead yet in New Jersey. Difilippo provides several…Read More
Another Unsustainable Budget Proposed by NJ’s Status Quo Governor: Record Spending; Higher Taxes
Posted On02/28/2025 byAs we have said many times, Gov. Murphy is a status quo governor. He was elected with the support of New Jersey’s powerful, taxpayer-funded government unions, especially its largest, the NJEA, which spent over $20 million supporting Murphy. Murphy has repaid the favor by largely governing for their benefit. The result is another unsustainable FY2026…Read More
The NJEA Slings Mud and Peddles Falsehoods to Keep Teachers from Sunlight’s Facts
Posted On02/25/2025 byIn a recent ad on InsiderNJ, the NJEA reached a new low. They previously tried to block Sunlight’s emails from reaching teachers, scare teachers from opening Sunlight’s messages by falsely labeling Sunlight’s texts as a “phishing scam” that might infect their phones, and discredit Sunlight by putting us at the top of the NJEA’s “propaganda”…Read More
More Sobering Data on NJ Students’ Learning Loss and a “Wake Up Call” for NJ Parents
Posted On02/20/2025 byMore sobering analysis surrounding the recent “lackluster” performance by New Jersey students on national assessments and the attendant long-term decline in student achievement, as well as the welcome arrival of a new organization, Wake Up Call New Jersey, which seeks to alert New Jersey parents to this grim reality. It’s not a pretty picture but…Read More
Memo to Gov. Murphy and NJEA President Spiller: The Numbers Don’t Lie: NJ Is Not #1 in Education by a Long Shot
Posted On02/19/2025 byWe know that Gov. Murphy and his good pal, NJEA President/gubernatorial candidate Sean Spiller, like to claim that New Jersey’s public schools are #1 in the nation, but the results from the 2024 National Assessment of Academic Progress (NAEP) tests say otherwise, especially when it comes to New Jersey’s disadvantaged students. Overall, the Urban Institute…Read More
More Signs that NJEA President Spiller Has Turned His Union into One, Big “Spiller for Governor” Super PAC
Posted On02/13/2025 byNJEA President Sean Spiller is running for governor and, despite the obvious conflict of interest, he has not been shy about using his union to assist his political ambitions. That’s why Sunlight previously characterized the current NJEA as one, big “Spiller for Governor” Super PAC. We’ve just seen more signs of how true this is….Read More
More Empty Rhetoric from AG Platkin About Equal Justice for the “Well-Connected.” What About Gov. Murphy’s Pals Spiller and Gill?
Posted On02/07/2025 byWill New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin ever live up to his words? He repeatedly spouts high-sounding rhetoric about prosecuting political corruption and equal justice before the law but then sits silently while Gov. Murphy’s political pals, Sean Spiller and Brendan Gill, remain untouched. Platkin took to the pages of northjersey.com to tout his creation…Read More
NJEA Leadership Secretly Funnels Another $10 Million to Spiller’s Personal Vanity Project, For an Astounding Total of $22.25 Million of Teachers’ Regular Dues
Posted On02/03/2025 byNJEA President Sean Spiller’s personal vanity project just got a whole lot more expensive for New Jersey teachers. And for what? A weak and compromised candidate, according to the Star-Ledger‘s estimable Tom Moran. In its latest IRS filing, the NJEA’s Super PAC, Garden State Forward reported the contribution of another $10 million to the pro-Spiller,…Read More
NJ Globe Details Sean Spiller’s Political Career but Curiously Omits Facts About His Serious Legal Troubles
Posted On01/30/2025 byNew Jersey Globe reporter Joey Fox published a long and detailed summary of NJEA President/former-Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller’s political career as part of a series on the 2025 gubernatorial candidates, but Fox left several important facts out of the story — including facts about Spiller’s serious legal troubles that surely would be of interest to…Read More
NJ Is Losing Residents to Other States but Overall Population Has Grown Due to International Immigration
Posted On01/24/2025 byNew research shows New Jersey is losing people to other states but its overall population has increased due to international immigration, a substantial portion of which appears to have been undocumented/illegal immigration. In order to pre-empt some potential confusion about New Jersey’s population and migration patterns, Sunlight wants to put some new information into context….Read More