NJEA Leadership Tries to Block Teachers from Learning about the Facts Behind Dr. Dupont’s Petition, Which Already Has 1,785 Signatures
Posted On10/10/2025 byThanks to a friendly teacher, Sunlight was alerted to another attempt by NJEA leadership to keep teachers from learning the truth. Below is the NJEA’s “Advocates’ Update” emailed to members on October 3. As can be seen, NJEA leadership is trying to discredit Sunlight’s text messages, (falsely) suggesting they are unlawful and a scam. They…Read More
More Questionable Use of Teachers’ Dues: Another $7 Million in Political Spending and a “Violent, Anti-Semitic, and Anti-Christian” Editor of NJEA Review
Posted On10/08/2025 byDespite the recent lawsuit filed by two teachers against former-President Sean Spiller and the NJEA for misusing $45 million of teachers’ dues, NJEA leadership brazenly continues to spend millions of dues on politics without the knowledge or consent of the very teachers’ whose dues are paying for it. Now it looks like those dues are…Read More
Two Courageous Teachers File a Lawsuit Against Sean Spiller and the NJEA for Misusing $45 Million of Teachers’ Dues and Hiding the Truth from Teachers
Posted On10/01/2025 byDon’t mess with New Jersey teachers — even if you are the NJEA. Two courageous teachers — Dr. Marie Dupont of Roselle and Ann Marie Pocklembo of Hamilton — are suing the NJEA and its former-President Sean Spiller for using $45 million of teachers’ dues to fund Spiller’s vanity run for governor and hiding the…Read More
Is Mendacious Michael Gottesman’s Reckless Behavior Putting Turning Point USA Supporters at Risk?
Posted On09/25/2025 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman is back at it — more vicious than ever. The founder of the NJEA-funded New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) is once again trying to to intimidate and silence those with whom he disagrees and trying to enlist New Jersey reporters to help him do it. This time, Gottesman…Read More
Courageous Roselle Teacher Launches a Petition To Hold NJEA Leadership Accountable for Wasting $45 million of Dues and Hiding the Truth from Teachers
Posted On09/16/2025 byDr. Marie Dupont, the courageous Roselle teacher who dared to challenge NJEA leadership’s profligate waste of $45 million of teachers’ dues on then-NJEA President Sean Spiller’s vanity run for governor, hasn’t given up her fight. Finding her concerns unaddressed by leadership and suffering what she sees as retaliation from them, Dr. Dupont has launched a…Read More
Big Payday for the NJEA Execs Who Plotted Sean Spiller’s Vanity Run for Governor and Teachers’ Dues Paid for ALL of It
Posted On09/09/2025 byTop NJEA execs were very well compensated during the 2023-24 school year, according to the most recent NJEA IRS Form 990. The NJEA headquarters staff did particularly well, with Executive Director Kevin Kelleher pulling down a whopping $871,987 — “Wall Street“-level pay, as the Star-Ledger described it in the past. The top 10 execs averaged…Read More
More Proof that NJEA Leadership Hid the Truth About Spending $45 Million of Dues on Sean Spiller’s Vanity Run for Governor
Posted On09/05/2025 byA few more interesting tidbits from the September NJEA Review, which contains the most recent NJEA Summary Budget and Delegate Assembly (DA) minutes provided to teachers. Both reveal the extent to which NJEA leadership hid the truth from teachers: that $45 million of their highest-in-the-nation dues were being spent on then-NJEA President Sean Spiller’s vanity…Read More
NJEA Leadership Spent $45 Million of Dues on Sean Spiller’s Vanity Run and Just Hiked Teachers’ Dues Another 4.2% — the Highest in the Nation By Far
Posted On09/04/2025 byIt’s a new school year and things certainly have changed at NJEA Review, the NJEA’s monthly magazine for teachers. After months of issues full of “Spiller for Governor” ads and messages, the current issue has exactly ZERO mentions of now-former-NJEA President Sean Spiller. Looks like current NJEA leadership wants to pretend like Spiller’s $45 million…Read More
Sunlight Finds Another Mysterious $1 Million NJEA Payment for Canvassing for Sean Spiller, Bringing the Total to $9.3 Million. Will There Ever Be an Accounting?
Posted On08/29/2025 byThe mystery behind NJEA President Sean Spiller’s $45 million run for governor just got more mysterious. A recent IRS filing revealed that the NJEA’s Super PAC, Garden State Forward, sent an additional $1 million to AP Consulting Firm in support of Spiller’s vanity run. Recall that the NJEA-funded, pro-Spiller Super PAC Working New Jersey previously…Read More
New Study: NJ’s Downward Spiral Continues with 522,288 People and $31 Billion in Income Leaving for Other States Over the Past Decade
Posted On08/27/2025 byAnother study, another confirmation of New Jersey’s enormous outmigration of people and wealth. Over the past decade, New Jersey lost a total of -522,288 people and over $31 billion of personal income to other states, the 4th-worst totals in the nation. Only New York, California, and Illinois were worse. New Jersey’s overall population kept stable…Read More