Once Again, the Star-Ledger Editorial Board Keeps NJ Citizens Informed About Millions in Pay for NJEA Leadership
Posted On07/13/2022 bySunlight tips its hat to the Star-Ledger editorial board. As Sunlight’s readers probably know, Sunlight came out with a report last week after we discovered that NJEA Executive Director Ed Richardson was paid $2.5 million in 2019. This jaw-dropping revelation elicited exactly zero coverage in the New Jersey media. Zero. Until today, when the plugged-in…Read More
New NJEA Tax Return: ELC, NJ Policy Perspective and NJ Working Families Continue to Take Lots of NJEA Money
Posted On07/01/2022 byMore from the NJEA’s 2019 tax return, this time on the NJEA’s network of allies. Sunlight’s readers know that the NJEA’s generous funding of its allies is a big part of how it wields its dominant influence over New Jersey’s political system. These allies help execute the NJEA’s agenda by giving it the appearance of…Read More
New NJEA Tax Return: HQ Staff Cuts, Less Teacher Support for Political Spending but NJEA Leadership Still Spends More on Politics
Posted On06/30/2022 byAt long last, a new NJEA IRS filing has been provided to the public, this one a Form 990 for the 2019 tax year (9/1/2019 to 8/31/2020). Because of massive backlogs at the IRS, the public has not seen a NJEA IRS filing since the 2017 tax year. That’s three years of silence about the…Read More
NJ Teachers’ Highest-in-the-Nation Dues Are Secretly Being Used to Fund Murphy’s Political Ambitions
Posted On06/23/2022 bySome things never change. Teachers and New Jersey citizens are being scammed again. Northjersey.com revealed that the NJEA has contributed $750,000 to a Stronger Fairer Forward (SFF), a dark money Super PAC supporting Gov. Murphy run for president. This is a continuation of the role the NJEA played in Murphy’s 2021 re-election. During Murphy’s first…Read More
New Sweeney Center Report on NJ Budget Is a Valuable and Ominous Warning
Posted On06/17/2022 bySunlight wanted to comment on a recent report from former-Senate President Steve Sweeney’s Center for Public Policy at Rowan University. The report is the work of a bipartisan Multi-Year Budget Workgroup and constitutes a valuable contribution to the discussion about New Jersey’s fiscal future. As we approach the beginning of FY2023, it is imperative that…Read More
Newsflash: We Never Needed to Close Schools or Mask Kids During COVID
Posted On06/15/2022 bySunlight is posting an entire piece from NJEdReport because it is so important for New Jersey citizens to know this: New Jersey students’ “staggering” learning loss during COVID school closures is not news. Here’s what is: those school closures and months of remote instruction were unnecessary. Instead, New Jersey and the rest of the country…Read More
More Biased, Substandard “Research” from Mark Weber and NJ Policy Perspective
Posted On06/10/2022 byAnother Mark Weber (a.k.a “Jersey Jazzman”) report for New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP), another example of substandard, biased research. The sad thing is that the media takes what Weber says at face value when they shouldn’t. As Sunlight has documented, there are many, many examples of Weber’s shoddy and biased “research.” Weber returns to a…Read More
More Data Showing NJ Is Losing People and Wealth to Other States: Please Take Note, Tom Moran
Posted On06/06/2022 byThe Star-Ledger’s Tom Moran has been having a back-and-forth with Sunlight over whether New Jersey has an out-migration problem. We respect Moran and have found him to be a good-faith interlocutor and we have some data to add to the discussion. Here’s the argument in a nutshell. Moran contends that New Jersey’s outmigration problem is…Read More
NJEA President Spiller, Are You Calling Teachers Who Vote Republican “Racists” and “White Supremacists”?
Posted On06/02/2022 byNJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller had some choice words for Republicans in the aftermath of the Buffalo mass-murder. A Patch report quotes Spiller as saying: “Sadly, racism and white supremacy have become ingrained in the mainstream of today’s Republican Party.“ That’s quite a wholesale indictment of the Republican Party. What’s more, “mainstream” Republicans means most Republicans, so…Read More
New Healthcare Law Saves Millions for School Employees but Taxpayers Are Paying More
Posted On05/31/2022 byMary Ann Koruth of NorthJersey.com brings some needed focus on the reality of the much-heralded 2021 “Chapter 78 relief” law negotiated by then-Senate President Steve Sweeney and the NJEA. In “New state teacher health plan didn’t deliver promised savings, say school districts,” Koruth reports that out of the 158 school districts surveyed, 85% said that…Read More