SPCNJ in the news
Former ADP Head Josh Weston Speaks Out About Lavish NJEA Leadership Compensation
Posted On07/19/2022 byThanks to Tapinto‘s James McQueeny for his excellent interview with former-Automatic Data Processing CEO Josh Weston, in which Weston joined the Star-Ledger in blasting the NJEA leadership for their excessive compensation and suggesting that some of it should be clawed back. Sunlight’s research is prominently featured, and we note that the NJEA does not dispute…Read More
Once Again, the Star-Ledger Editorial Board Keeps NJ Citizens Informed About Millions in Pay for NJEA Leadership
Posted On07/13/2022 bySunlight tips its hat to the Star-Ledger editorial board. As Sunlight’s readers probably know, Sunlight came out with a report last week after we discovered that NJEA Executive Director Ed Richardson was paid $2.5 million in 2019. This jaw-dropping revelation elicited exactly zero coverage in the New Jersey media. Zero. Until today, when the plugged-in…Read More
Sunlight in Montclair Local on Mayor Spiller Becoming President of the NJEA
Posted On03/25/2021 byThe Montclair Local cited Sunlight’s reporting on Mayor Sean Spiller massive conflict of interest – which is now even bigger as Spiller will become the president of the NJEA.Read More
NJLeftBehind on SPCNJ’s Response to Jersey Jazzman’s Flawed Defense of His Flawed Research
Posted On07/23/2020 byThanks to NJLeftBehind for blogging and Tweeting SPCNJ’s response to Jersey Jazzman’s flawed defense of his flawed research. As usual, NJLeftBehind adds its own take and helpfully includes @stateaidguy in the thread. To reiterate: Jersey Jazzman’s two research reports for New Jersey Policy Perspective are deeply flawed. Despite Jazzman’s Ph.D., he seems not to understand…Read More
Jersey Jazzman’s Defense of His Shoddy Research Is Just as Shoddy
Posted On07/21/2020 bySunlight (not “Sunshine,” Jazzman) Policy Center of New Jersey (SPCNJ) will give credit where credit is due: at least The Jazzman (a.k.a., Mark Weber, Ph.D.) took the time to defend his research. Presumably, no self-respecting Ph.D. would allow SPCNJ’s critique “More Shoddy Research from Jersey Jazzman and New Jersey Policy Perspective” to go unchallenged. However,…Read More
NJLeftBehind Digs into Jazzman/NJ Policy Perspective’s Flawed Research
Posted On07/14/2020 byKudos and thanks to NJLeftBehind for a masterful critique of Mark Weber, Ph.D. (a.k.a., Jersey Jazzman) and New Jersey Policy Perspective’s (NJPP) latest piece of shoddy research. NJLeftBehind calls it like it sees it, and it sees Weber and NJPP as essentially paid lobbyists for the NJEA. After the two shoddy pieces of research Weber…Read More
NJ Education Aid Finds Gaps in Weber/NJPP Report on a Teacher Shortage
Posted On07/13/2020 byThe excellent New Jersey Education Aid provides facts and data (here)that expose gaps in Mark Weber, Ph.D.’s (a.k.a., Jersey Jazzman) latest report for New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) (here) on a shortage of teacher candidates in NJ. In other words, NJ Education Aid does what Weber does not do: provides sound, evidence-based research that supports…Read More