Stunning Hypocrisy: Funded by $40 Million from the Wealthiest Donor of All, Sean Spiller Decries His Opponents’ Wealthy Donors; the Most Non-Transparent Candidate Calls for Transparency.
Posted On05/20/2025 byConfronted with the reality that he was the only one of the six Democratic candidates absent from the debate stage for Sunday’s gubernatorial debate, NJEA President Sean Spiller is trying to turn his obvious weakness as a candidate into a virtue. As Spiller’s poor polling shows, the reason for Spiller’s anemic fundraising is that he…Read More
Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Wants NJ Reporters to Join His Hit-Job on Wake Up Call NJ. Will They?
Posted On05/14/2025 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman, founder of the NJEA-front New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC), is back, once again trying to intimidate and silence those with whom he disagrees. This time, Gottesman is reaching out to 46 reporters at all the major New Jersey news publications as well as some national ones in order…Read More
US News Says NJ Schools are #1 but Urban Institute Accounts for Low-Income Students and Says NJ Schools Are #16
Posted On05/09/2025 byThe NJEA, its president/gubernatorial candidate Sean Spiller, and Spiller’s pal Gov. Murphy wasted no time in trumpeting New Jersey’s ranking as the #1 K-12 school system in the most recent US News & World Report study. New Jersey’s top ranking is good news so far as it goes, and New Jersey educators (rather than the…Read More
NEA Misleads NJ Teachers into Believing They Have a Big Salary Premium, but NJ Cost of Living Erases It
Posted On05/06/2025 byOnce again, the NJEA’s parent, the National Education Association (NEA), is misleading teachers into believing they are better paid than they really are — thanks to the teachers unions. In New Jersey, the NEA wants teachers to believe that they are paid 15% more than the average teacher nationally. But in the real world, New…Read More
NJ Monitor: “Slippery” Sean Spiller Dodges Questions While Attorney General Platkin Sits on the Criminal Investigation of Spiller
Posted On04/30/2025 byThe dam really has broken. First, it was the recognition by the New York Times that NJEA leadership was indeed spending teachers’ mandatory, annual dues backing NJEA President Sean Spiller’s ego trip run for governor. Soon all the major New Jersey news media followed with similar stories.* As a result, after two-and-a-half years of hiding…Read More
NJEA President Sean Spiller’s Run for Governor Is a “Weird Spiller Ego Trip,” Says Noted Journalist Matt Yglesias
Posted On04/24/2025 bySunlight has been calling NJEA President Sean Spiller’s campaign for governor a “vanity run,” but noted journalist Matt Yglesias has a better term: “weird Spiller ego trip.” As Yglesias wrote (as reported in the always excellent NJEdReport): This weird Spiller ego trip is … a reminder that unions sometimes make bad calls due to weird…Read More
Census Data: In 2024, 35,554 NJ Citizens Left for Other States; Since 2020, 192,209 Have Left
Posted On04/22/2025 byNew Jersey citizens continue to vote with their feet and move to other states. That was true for FY2024, when a net 35,554 left, and it was true from 2020 to 2024, when a net 192,209 left. In both cases, New Jersey had the 4th-worst outmigration among the 50 states. Only international immigration kept New…Read More
A TikTok of NJEA President Sean Spiller FINALLY Admitting that Teachers’ Regular Dues are Funding His Run for Governor
Posted On04/18/2025 byThe dam has indeed broken. After the New York Times and NJ.com stated unequivocally that NJEA members’ regular dues were being used to fund NJEA President Sean Spiller’s vanity run for governor, Spiller was finally forced to admit it (see below). Sort of. In a dissembling sort of way. But note that it is April…Read More
NJ.com: Sean Spiller Finally Admits What the NJEA Has Been Hiding: Teachers’ Regular Dues Are Funding His Vanity Run for Governor
Posted On04/14/2025 byThe dam has finally broken: two more news stories on NJEA leadership’s spending $35 million of teachers’ mandatory, annual dues on NJEA President Sean Spiller’s vanity run for governor. These news stories have finally forced Spiller to admit — albeit with much dissembling — what the NJEA has long tried to hide from teachers. Last…Read More
NY Times: NJEA to Spend $35 Million of Teachers’ Annual Dues on a “Blank Check” for Sean Spiller’s Run for Governor
Posted On04/09/2025 byWe are thankful to see the New York Times confirm what Sunlight has been saying for a long time: NJEA leadership plans to spend $35 million of teachers’ mandatory, annual dues on a”blank check” for NJEA President Sean Spiller’s run for governor. Yet NJEA leadership continues to hide this fact from the very teachers whose…Read More