Education Intelligence Agency Cites SPCNJ’s Discovery of NJEA ED’s Departure
Posted OnOctober 10, 2019 byMike Antonucci – one of the most knowledgeable experts on teachers unions – cites SPCNJ’s discovery and points out that the NJEA’s initial cloak of silence is not unusual for NEA state affiliates. It still begs the question: why? Read the full EIA piece here.Read More
InsiderNJ Posts SPCNJ’s Scoop on NJEA ED Richardson’s Very Quiet Departure
Posted OnOctober 7, 2019 byThanks to InsiderNJ for posting SPCNJ’s discovery on its “Morning Intelligence Briefing.” Now InsiderNJ should ask the NJEA about its strange silence regarding the departure of their long-time executive director. Read the InsiderNJ post here. Read More
SPCNJ’s Scoop on Former-NJEA ED Richardson Re-posted on NJLeftBehind
Posted OnOctober 7, 2019 byThanks to our good friends at NJLeftBehind. Still no word from NJEA on the matter. Strange. Read the re-post here.Read More
Why Are People Leaving New Jersey?
Posted OnSeptember 30, 2019 bySunlight Policy Center of New Jersey Releases Comprehensive Report on the Economic Consequences of New Jersey’s Huge Debts and High Taxes. “Beware the Downward Spiral: The Economic Consequences of New Jersey’s Special-Interest-Dominated Status Quo” Provides the First In-Depth Understanding of the Facts and Causes as to Why People Are Leaving the State Red Bank, New…Read More
NJ Left Behind Re-Posts SPCNJ’s Piece on Weber’s Flawed Research
Posted OnSeptember 23, 2019 byThanks to NJ Left Behind for re-posting the piece. We hope that interested citizens and journalists are paying attention. Despite what the facts presented in SPCNJ’s piece show – that Weber’s research is indeed deeply flawed – Weber has not made any public refutation, nor has he even been asked by the media for a…Read More
Education Intelligence Agency Credits SPCNJ with Exposing New Direction New Jersey
Posted OnSeptember 19, 2019 byAS 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
SPCNJ Quoted in POLITICO’S New Jersey Playbook
Posted OnSeptember 18, 2019 byThanks 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
SPCNJ Research on InsiderNJ
Posted OnSeptember 17, 2019 byInsiderNJ published SPCNJ’s report on Mark Weber’s flawed research for NJPP on a wage gap between New Jersey teachers and private-sector workers. Weber, a Ph.D., uses faulty methodologies, presents irrelevant studies and worst of all cherry-picks data from studies he cites. Most egregiously, he cites headline numbers from an Economic Policy Institute study that show…Read More
Union Propaganda Backfire [Bury links to SPCNJ research in his post]
Posted OnSeptember 17, 2019 byNew Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a union-backed advocacy group commissioned to come up with what the unions believe will be reports that help their cause. In 2014 they came out with a report (easily refuted) that claimed “New Jersey ranks close to last for overall pension benefit generosity, at 95th out of 100, in part because…Read More
NJ Spotlight OP-ED: PRESS CORPS SHOULDN’T IGNORE MURPHY’S CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Posted OnJuly 24, 2019 byMIKE 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