NJEA Vice President and Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller’s massive conflict of interest has reared its ugly head at precisely the wrong time: right in the middle of a pandemic and just before Montclair public schools were scheduled to be opened for in-person instruction.    The MEA Exercises Its Veto Power Despite Superintendent Jonathan Ponds’ decision…Read More

A NEEDED SITUATION ANALYSIS FROM THE SUNLIGHT POLICY CENTER OF NEW JERSEY Last May, Sean Spiller, the Vice President of the NJEA – the most powerful special interest in the state – was elected mayor of Montclair. Sunlight Policy Center provided a detailed report examining the FACTS behind Mr. Spiller’s major conflict of interest and,…Read More

IT’S TIME NEW JERSEY TEACHERS ARE PROVIDED THE FACTS BEHIND THE TEACHER PENSION CRISIS DID YOU KNOW…The NJEA Executive Leadership quietly created their own gold-plated pension plan which is over-funded…. all paid for by teachers’ highest-in-the-nation dues … MEANWHILE…New Jersey’s actual teachers are forced to join a vastly inferior pension plan that is severely under-funded…Read More

“Think of what we could have accomplished with the billions and billions of dollars that have gone instead towards making up for years of skipped pension payments.” – September 8, 2020 – New Jersey Treasurer Elizabeth Muoio testifying to the Senate Budget Committee COVID-19 HAS BROUGHT FEAR, SICKNESS, AND DEATH THROUGHOUT OUR STATE…AND QUIETLY THIS…Read More

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