SUNLIGHT POLICY CENTER OF NEW JERSEY WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO…. . “JERSEY JAZZMAN” – RESEARCH ANALYST FOR NEW JERSEY POLICY PERSPECTIVE Policy is important. Policy affects people’s lives.  Policy is the anchor behind the creation of the Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey (SPCNJ). But policy must be founded on facts and evidence-based research…….Read More

WE HAVE HEARD FROM NEW JERSEY TEACHERS – THEY WANT TO KNOW… WHERE DO THEIR UNION DUES GO? WELL, FINALLY, THEY HAVE ANSWERS – AND ALL THE DATA IS SOURCED AND FOOTNOTED.   SUNLIGHT POLICY CENTER OF NEW JERSEY RELEASES A NEW REPORT….   “NEW JERSEY TEACHERS’ DUES: WHY ARE THEY THE HIGHEST IN THE…Read More

From today’s InsiderNJ: Sunlight Policy Center: The second-highest elected officer in the NJEA is running for the Mayor of Montclair. April 21, 2020, 9:58 pm | in From the Sunlight Policy Center: SEAN SPILLER, THE SECOND-HIGHEST ELECTED OFFICER IN THE NJEA, IS RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF MONTCLAIR? CAN YOU SAY “CONFLICT OF INTEREST”? WE SURE…Read More

WAIT…. LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT…. SEAN SPILLER, THE SECOND-HIGHEST ELECTED OFFICER IN THE NJEA, IS RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF MONTCLAIR? CAN YOU SAY “CONFLICT OF INTEREST”?  WE SURE CAN.   The taxpayer-funded NJEA, the most powerful special interest in New Jersey’s special-interest-dominated political system, has run over 1,300 NJEA members for public office in…Read More

Over the last two years, the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) has conducted a multi-million-dollar lobbying and media campaign promoting the “NJEA’s solution” to the exceptionally high cost of school employee health benefits for both teachers and taxpayers.  Before this legislation (A-5814/S-4114) is brought to Governor Murphy, for what we know will be a rubber…Read More

IT’S TIME TO NAME NAMES WHICH NEW JERSEY ORGANIZATIONS ARE BENEFITTING FROM THE NJEA’S MILLIONS IN POLITICAL SPENDING? WE HAVE THE ANSWERS! WE SHOW WHO IS GETTING THE NJEA MONEY AND WHO WORKS HAND-IN-HAND WITH THE NJEA. PLEASE READ ON The Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey is going to make some news today, but…Read More

MIKE LILLEY | JULY 24, 2019 The NJEA was a major funder for the ‘dark money’ group that is pushing governor’s millionaires tax Mike Lilley Earlier this year, the Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey shined a light on the controversial “dark money” political-action group New Direction New Jersey. NDNJ is run by the same…Read More

ARE YOU CURIOUS WHY NEW JERSEY’S TAXES ARE SO HIGH? READ ON… “Increasing the gas tax makes sense…And who has been complaining about the sales tax, anyway?” — NJEA Executive Director Ed Richardson, 2016.   For the last six weeks, the Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey has been releasing a series of thoroughly researched…Read More

…IT MIGHT BE TIME YOU LOOK AT THE FACTS. “Our excellent pension system . . . [is] the result of hard-fought legislation and politics.” -NJEA President Michael Johnson Everyone, including the NJEA, now agrees we have a crisis. It’s simply a fact that New Jersey’s pension system is the worst in the nation. That’s why…Read More