InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack Provides Slanted Coverage of the Culture Wars — Joining Others in the NJ Press Corps
Posted On10/17/2023 byLooks like more slanted coverage of the culture wars by the NJ press corps. This time it’s InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack. We’re starting to see a pattern. In his piece “Judicial Integrity and the Culture Wars,” Snowflack has this lede: “Sexualization of children … lies by the parent’s rights lobby … astonishment in Hanover.” The clear…Read More
Can InsiderNJ’s Jay Lassiter Explain Why This Shouldn’t Be Construed as Bias?
Posted On10/13/2023 byWhen Sunlight publishes a report, we send it to a press list that we have complied over the years. One of the reporters on the list is Jay Lassiter of InsiderNJ. Reporters are the filter through which many people get their news, and it is our view is that reporters should be unbiased and report…Read More
PERC Ruling Confirms Teachers Have Been Kept in the Dark by the NJEA, and Once They Learn the Facts from Sunlight, Many Are Leaving the NJEA
Posted On10/11/2023 byLast week, we reported on the NJEA’s efforts (via the Wayne EA) to have the NJ Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) order the Wayne school district to censor Sunlight’s emails to teachers informing them of their 1st Amendment rights. We read PERC’s ruling rejecting motions for summary judgement from both sides and found some revealing…Read More
It’s a Fact: NJEA Leadership Wants to Keep Teachers in the Dark About Their Constitutional Rights, and Wants PERC to Help Them
Posted On10/05/2023 byWe now have incontrovertible confirmation that the NJEA is trying to keep teachers in the dark about their 1st Amendment rights. A recent New Jersey Monitor report described how the Wayne Education Association (WEA) is pushing the NJ Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) to force the Wayne School District to block Sunlight’s emails informing teachers…Read More
NJEA President Sean Spiller Appears Happy to Spend NJ Teachers’ Dues on His Personal Political Career
Posted On10/03/2023 byNJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller looks like he’s serious about his post-NJEA political career and is happy to spend teachers’ highest-in-the-nation dues to get there. One of Sunlight’s readers sent us the flyer below, which announces an “evening in conversation” at the South Orange Performance Arts Center, hosted by Sean M. Spiller and paid-for by…Read More
Post-Pandemic, Teachers are Stretched and Stressed.
Posted On10/02/2023 bySo why is the NJEA leadership in Trenton focused on getting teachers involved in local politics and culture wars? According to a recent Monmouth poll, the NJEA’s proposed policies are opposed by the vast majority of New Jersey citizens and parents. Post-pandemic learning loss and increased student misbehavior are making it harder for teachers to…Read More
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