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
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