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

Sunlight Policy Center Report: How Much Does The NJEA Really Spend On Politics? Over the last two weeks, since our launch, the Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey (SPCNJ) has shined a strong light on two important issues related to the powerful NJEA. We showed, with each step clearly sourced, how the NJEA leadership funds…Read More

Sunlight Policy Center Report: How Much Does The NJEA Really Spend On Politics? Over the last two weeks, since our launch, the Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey (SPCNJ) has shined a strong light on two important issues related to the powerful NJEA. We showed, with each step clearly sourced, how the NJEA leadership funds…Read More

Phil Murphy still raising money from secret donors for group backing NJ tax increases by Justin Racioppi, Trenton Bureau Gov. Phil Murphy still is raising money from secret donors for the “dark money” group that’s now airing ads backing his call to raise taxes on millionaires, he acknowledged Friday. Those ads hit cable stations and the…Read More

Did You Know that Every New Jersey Property Taxpayer Directly Funds New Jersey’s Most Powerful Special Interest Group? …. Yes, you read that correctly…and sadly, it’s a fact.   Last week, the Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey issued a report that made news throughout the state, when we uncovered that the NJEA has been…Read More

Is NJEA the Ventriloquist and Governor Murphy the Dummy? Once upon a time the New Jersey Education Association was about education and professional development for teachers. But NJ’s primary teachers’ union has undergone a shift and, according to a new report out by Michael Lilley, “today’s NJEA is all politics.” This shift ties directly to…Read More