Thanks to NJEdReport for reposting Sunlight’s blog on the special-interest revolving door from the NJEA to Gov. Murphy’s administration back to the NJEA.  (Of course it was NJEdReport’s reporting that alerted us to the move in the first place.) Cornavaca wins, the NJEA wins, Murphy wins, but what about ordinary New Jersey citizens?Read More

Thanks once again to NJEdReport‘s boosting Sunlight’s work.  Sunlight hopes that NJEdReport readers will take a moment to look at our short blog.  The NJEA proudly and brazenly boasts of its influence over our governor and the quid pro quo relationship they have.  New Jersey under Murphy: by and for the special interests.Read More

Thanks to NJEdReport for commenting on Sunlight’s recent piece reminding Gov. Murphy that before he goes off running for president, there is a whole lot of unfinished business in New Jersey.  NJEdReport dies its usual excellent job of summarizing and highlighting the salient points.Read More

Thanks once again to NJEdReport for posting Sunlight’s blog on Outmigration.  Another study, another last-in-the-nation ranking for NJ.  But Gov. Murphy has studiously ignored the issue.  His mind is apparently focused elsewhere: on a possible run  for the White House.  Too bad for NJ!Read More

Thanks to NJEdReport for posting Sunlight’s blog and adding a great picture (from the Academy Award-winning movie “Cabaret”) of cherry-picking – which is Weber and Baker go-to method of “research.”  Weber and Baker predetermine their conclusion – in this case and very often the supposed need for more education spending by the state – and…Read More

Thanks to the Star-Ledger for publishing Sunlight’s op-ed on a new kind of “dark money” in NJ politics.  Traditionally, dark money has referred to secret funders of Super PACs (political action committees).   Here, we know that the NJEA funded its Super PAC, Garden State Forward, with $42 million, but because of inadequate disclosure, we…Read More

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