Here’s the full re-post.Read More

Mike Antonucci – one of the most knowledgeable experts on teachers unions – cites SPCNJ’s discovery and points out that the NJEA’s initial cloak of silence is not unusual for NEA state affiliates.  It still begs the question: why? Read the full EIA piece here.Read More

Thanks to InsiderNJ for posting SPCNJ’s discovery on its “Morning Intelligence Briefing.”  Now InsiderNJ should ask the NJEA about its strange silence regarding the departure of their long-time executive director. Read the InsiderNJ post here.  Read More

Thanks to our good friends at NJLeftBehind.   Still no word from NJEA on the matter.  Strange. Read the re-post here.Read More

Thanks to NJ Left Behind for re-posting the piece.  We hope that interested citizens and journalists are paying attention.  Despite what the facts presented in SPCNJ’s piece show – that Weber’s research is indeed deeply flawed – Weber has not made any public refutation, nor has he even been asked by the media for a…Read More

AS ONE TEACHER UNION FRONT GROUP IS EXPOSED, ANOTHER TAKES ITS PLACE By Mike Antonucci on Sep 19, 2019 06:00 am September 19, 2019 The New Jersey media was abuzz last week upon the release of a list of contributors to New Direction New Jersey, a political advocacy group run by close advisers of Democratic Gov….Read More

Thanks to POLITICO for quoting SPCNJ’s issue update on the NJEA’s $4.5 million in funding for New Direction New Jersey and the conflict of interest it presents for Governor Murphy.  The “Quote of the Day” section is about five paragraphs down from the top. See POLITICO’s New Jersey Playbook here. Read More

Thank you, InsiderNJ, for the recognition of SPCNJ and the work we have been doing. Here’s the InsiderNJ entry for #99 Mike Lilley:  “On the opposing side of the NJEA, the Princeton grad and former head of Better Education For Kids started the self-funded Sunlight Policy Center, which has released a steady stream of cited…Read More

The Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey released another report today – “NJEA: Higher Taxes – Who Has Been Complaing About the Sales Tax Anyway“. Excerpts below: Thanks to the NJEA’s lobbying, state law permits collective bargaining for multiyear contracts with career salary schedules. The NJEA directs local associations to use “step and lane”salary guides,…Read More

By BuryPensions: The Sunlight Policy Center released another report yesterday blasting the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), this time for their complicity in the bankruptcy of the retirement system that included a helpful history though I disagreed on a couple of points. Unsurprisingly,the NJEA blames it all on the state: “The state’s failure to fund…Read More