Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Adds Serial Bullying to His Serial Mendacity
Posted On09/28/2023 byThanks to one of our readers for a heads-up about more bullying from mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman, the founder of NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC). Sunlight has documented Gottesman’s serial mendacity and now we can add serial bullying to Gottesman’s profile. We think there’s a strong case that Gottesman and NJPEC are NEA/NJEA…Read More
NJPP’s Weber and Baker Say NJ Must Spend $4 Billion More to Match Massachusetts’ Education Results, but MA Spends Less than NJ
Posted On09/21/2023 byWe cannot let a new report from the dynamic duo of New Jersey Policy Perspective’s Mark Weber, PhD. (a.k.a., “Jersey Jazzman”) and Bruce Baker go by without a perusal. Sunlight has documented their long history of producing shoddy, biased research in the service of NJPP’s $1.25 million donor, the NJEA (of which Weber is a…Read More
NJEA Leadership Hides $64 Million in Super PAC Political Spending from Teachers Whose Dues Pay for It
Posted On09/14/2023 bySome of the most consistent feedback Sunlight has received in its campaign to inform teachers of their 1st Amendment rights revolves around the fact that most teachers have no idea that the NJEA’s Super PAC, Garden State Forward, even exists. Much less do they know that their regular dues are paying for Garden State Forward….Read More
A Question for Northjersey.com’s Mary Ann Koruth: Why Such One-Sided Coverage of NJ’s Culture Wars?
Posted On09/12/2023 byWe have some questions for northjersey.com‘s Mary Ann Koruth about her report “National right-wing groups enter NJ’s legal battles with schools over parental rights.” It is true, as she states, that the Goldwater Institute has joined the legal battle over parental notification policies by supporting a lawsuit by a Marlboro parent against the State of…Read More
Confirmed: NJEA Dues Are the Highest in the Nation — by 32% — and NJEA Membership Below 193,000
Posted On09/07/2023 byWe have independent confirmation of our blog post on Tuesday, where we reported that the NJEA raised teachers’ dues to $1,038 a year, the highest in the nation by far and that NJEA membership had fallen to 193,000 in 2021-22. Looks like we were right on both counts. As the graph below shows, at $1,038…Read More
NJEA Hikes Teachers’ Highest-in-the-Nation Dues to $1,038; Estimated Membership Declines to 193,000
Posted On09/06/2023 byWith the start of the new school year, New Jersey teachers’ highest-in-the-nation dues just went 4% higher, from $999 for the 2022-23 school year to $1,038 this year. Perhaps because teachers’ dues were already so very high, the NJEA delegate assembly voted to freeze dues for last year, but no longer. The dues for the…Read More
Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman, NJPEC Use Open Record Requests to Intimidate School Boards and Parents
Posted On08/15/2023 byMichael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) are trying to intimidate school boards and parents who dared to opt their kids out of the state’s controversial sex-ed guidelines. Thanks to a friend, Sunlight was sent a copy of an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request signed by Gottesman individually and…Read More
During the Pandemic, People Left NJ and Took a Record Amount of Wealth with Them, Mostly to Low-Tax, Non-Lockdown Florida
Posted On08/03/2023 byWhen it comes to domestic migration, how did New Jersey fare during the first year of the pandemic? Unfortunately, not well: New Jersey saw a net loss of over 12,000 taxpayers and $3.8 billion of gross income, the largest annual outflow of wealth in its history. This was despite the largest inflow of wealth from…Read More
Strong 2023 Investment Returns But Teachers’ Pension Plan Is Still in Trouble
Posted On08/01/2023 byThe Star-Ledger reports that state pension investments have “raked in huge gains” so far this year, but the structurally unsound state pension system is still in trouble. It is of course good news that stock markets have had strong returns this year and that state pension plan assets have rebounded after a dismal 2022. And…Read More
Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Adds Hypocrisy to His Habitual Mendacity
Posted On07/19/2023 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman is at it again. The founder of the New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) recently took to the pages of NJEdReport to decry parents ostensibly using their children as “spies” to expose “woke” indoctrination in public school classrooms. Gottesman claims that, by such actions, the “radical right” aims to…Read More