Gov. Murphy Tours Asia While His Tutoring Programs Fail and NJ Students Fall Further Behind
Posted On10/26/2023 byA governor who fails in his duty to educate New Jersey’s children is a failure as a governor. ALL New Jersey children, including — especially — those who are struggling the most. Like the Black and Latino kids who suffered the greatest learning loss from COVID-related school closures on Governor Murphy’s watch. But Murphy is…Read More
After Being Caught Offsides by a Monmouth Poll, the NJEA Engineers Its Own Poll to Claim It is Aligned with Parents
Posted On10/24/2023 byAs is well known in polling, if you want a certain response, you have to ask the right question. The way you phrase the question makes all the difference. Now we have a classic example of such polling in the New Jersey culture wars, and in particular over mandatory parental notification policies. The NJEA has…Read More
A Deeply Deceptive Ad from Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and NJ Public Education Coalition
Posted On10/19/2023 byMore mendacity from Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and the NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC), this time in a deeply deceptive digital ad. The bullying Gottesman likes to accuse his opponents of lying, but, using his terminology, who is really lying here? Once again, it is Gottesman. Will the facts cause InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack revise…Read More
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