The NJEA’s Active Role in the Scorched-Earth Politics Aimed at the North Hunterdon-Voorhees School Board
Posted On01/26/2024 byAs intended, Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJEA-funded NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) succeeded in turning a regular North Hunterdon-Voorhees (NHV) school board meeting into a large-scale political campaign — backed and financed by the NJEA. On the other side are NHV parents and school board members. It’s a hugely lopsided playing…Read More
Mendacious Michael Gottesman and NJPEC Want to Turn a North Hunterdon-Voorhees School Board Meeting into a Scorched-Earth Political Battleground
Posted On01/22/2024 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJEA-funded NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) will stop at nothing to impose their progressive education agenda on NJ school districts. NJ citizens should be very concerned about the scorched-earth political campaigns Gottesman and NJPEC (with NJEA help) are bringing down on NJ school boards like North Hunterdon-Voorhees…Read More
More Bullying of School Boards by Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and NJPEC — with the NJEA’s Help
Posted On01/19/2024 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) are back, once again seeking to intimidate school boards into adopting their progressive agenda, this time at the North Hunterdon-Voorhees school district (NHV). NJPEC gets funding from the NJEA, so it is also the NJEA that is aggressively pushing progressive agendas on…Read More
2022-23 Census Data Shows NJ Citizens Are Voting with Their Feet: a Net 44,666 People Left Other States
Posted On01/12/2024 byMore data shows that NJ continues to have a serious outmigration problem, with 44,666 people leaving NJ for other states from 2022-23, or -0.5% of NJ’s population. NJ remains one of the bottom five states when it comes to domestic migration. Earlier this week, we reported on the United Van Lines (UVL) and U-Haul…Read More
United Van Lines and U-Haul: NJ Continues to Lose People and Wealth to More Affordable States
Posted On01/09/2024 byUnited Van Lines (UVL) and U-Haul came out with their 2023 annual surveys, and once again NJ ranks as one of the states with the most people leaving. A large number of the leavers are older, higher-income retirees, so wealth also continues to leave NJ for lower-tax, lower cost-of-living states — mainly in the south….Read More
If NJ Teachers Had a Choice, Would They Vote to Cut NJEA Political Spending and Executive Pay To Get a 50%+ Cut in Dues?
Posted On01/03/2024 byThanks to NJEA-friendly laws, they don’t have that choice, but Dade County, FL shows what can happen when teachers get a choice about who represents them at the bargaining table. They can choose to certify a new union that promises to get out of partisan politics, allow locals to control their own dues revenues,…Read More
NJEA Pushes for a “Progressive” State Board of Ed Against the Wishes of NJ Citizens. How Does this Benefit Teachers, President Spiller?
Posted On12/20/2023 byNJEA President Sean Spiller is using the NJEA’s well-bought influence with Gov. Murphy and the Democratic legislature to try to turn the State Board of Education (SBOE) into a thoroughly “progressive” policymaker. But how does this benefit teachers? It doesn’t, which is likely why Spiller published his op-ed on a news website but not on…Read More
Jobs Data Shows NJ’s Economy Underperforms the Rest of the Nation
Posted On12/13/2023 byAll is not well with the New Jersey economy. The Wall Street Journal delved into NJ’s October 2023 employment numbers and came up with a discouraging picture. NJ’s economy underperforms the rest of the nation, plain and simple. As shown in the chart below, NJ’s unemployment rate hit 4.6%, and increase of 1.3% from a…Read More
NJEA Leadership’s Scheme to Hide the Facts from Teachers
Posted On12/11/2023 byWhen Teachers Learn the Facts About Excessive Compensation and Political Spending, Many Choose to Leave the NJEA ***** EXECUTIVE SUMMARY “[The Wayne Education Association president] certifies that since the Sunlight Policy Center email campaign began … far fewer members have chosen to enroll in the Association, and the net result has been a decline in…Read More
Truth In Accounting: NJ Last in the Nation for Long-Term Financial Condition. Again.
Posted On12/06/2023 byAnother last-in-the-nation ranking for New Jersey under Gov. Murphy. Last week, we reported that New Jersey’s tax climate for businesses was dead last, and this week it’s New Jersey’s long-term financial condition that’s ranked dead last, according to Truth In Accounting’s “Financial State of the States 2023.” New Jersey has been dead last in the…Read More