Thank to NJ Education Report for highlighting Sunlight’s response to Gov. Murphy’s inaugural address.  We think NJEdReport plucked out the right lines.  Like Politico‘s Matt Friedman (also quoted by NJEd Report), we question whether Murphy will reduce property taxes, and even if he does, he will likely raise other taxes to help him do it….Read More

As usual, NJEdReport gets at the key points and then presents them in a thoroughly digestible way.  A quick and easy way to understand how the NJEA spent $20 million – that’s $167 for each and every teacher –  of its members’ highest-in-the-nation dues exclusively on supporting Gov. Murphy and Democrats and enriching well-connected Democrat…Read More

As usual, NJEdReport added its own excellent and informed take on Sunlight’s blog congratulating Montclair voters on their landslide victory.  Montclair will now have an elected school board, and the deeply conflicted NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Spiller will no longer have control over Montclair’s school board. Montclair parents saw their children locked out of school for…Read More

Kudos to Jeff Pillets and NJSpotlight for their excellent, balanced report on the NJEA’s massive, taxpayer-funded support for Gov. Murphy’s re-election.  Pillets gets quotes from all sides of the debate, including from Sunlight and NJEA President Sean Spiller.  Sunlight particularly liked this quote from Ben Dworkin of Rowan University: “In the NJEA, the governor has…Read More

Thanks to NJEdReport for citing to Sunlight’s research on the (at least) $15.5 million the NJEA has spent for Gov. Murphy’s re-election.Read More

Thanks again to NJEdReport for amplifying the facts.  It’s particularly important that the facts get out into the public domain so they can counter the happy talk from the Murphy administration.  Unfortunately, the NJ press neglects to do so.  The fact is that Gov. Murphy prefers to accede to the wishes of his public union…Read More

In a fair and even-handed piece, the Montclair Local reported on Sunlight’s research into the record amount of money that was spent to elect NJEA President Sean Spiller as Montclair mayor.  Sunlight estimates that $310,000 was spent to elect Spiller versus $10,000 spent by his opponent Renee Baskerville, which was $80,000 more than was spent in…Read More

NJEdReport does an excellent job of condensing Sunlight’s work into a readable one-pager, and adding a picture of Spiller and his pal, Gov. Murphy, which is worth a thousand words.Read More

BuryPensions – one of the most informed observers of NJ’s pension crisis – cited to Sunlight’s research on NJ teachers’ woefully underfunded pensions as compared to NJEA executives overfunded pensions.  Sunlight would add that top NJEA exec pensions are worth as much as 6x what a teacher’s pension is worth.  All of this paid for…Read More

Once again, thanks to NJ Education Report for posting Sunlight’s blog rebutting the NJEA’s hit piece on Sunlight.  Clearly, the NJEA is nervous about Sunlight’s campaign to inform teachers of their 1st Amendment rights and is trying desperately to keep them in the dark.Read More