Shining a Light on the NJEA’s Dark Money Trails
Posted On11/10/2021 byTHE POLL$ HAVE CLO$ED…. AND WE CAN NOW PROJECT THE REAL WINNER$ OF LAST WEEK’$ ELECTION…. Congratulation$ to Brendan Gill, Steve DiMicco and Brad Lawrence! Election Day provided many surprises and while New Jersey’s political pundits are still trying to make sense of it, one result was as clear – at least $17.4 million in…Read More
Sunlight Quoted in the Excellent NJSpotlight Report on the NJEA’s Taxpayer-Funded Support for Murphy
Posted On10/27/2021 byKudos 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
NJ’s Most Powerful Special Interest, the NJEA, Spends 93% of Its PAC Money on Democrats
Posted On10/20/2021 byNJ’s Most Powerful Special Interest, the NJEA, Spends 93% of Its PAC Money on Democrats Since Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey began shining a light on the entrenched power of the NJEA – many teachers have shared their complaints about their executive leadership – and we get a lot of them. …New Jersey teachers…Read More
NJEdReport Chimes in on NJEA’s Controversial Sponsorship of Gubernatorial Debate
Posted On10/18/2021 byThanks to NJEdReport for citing to Sunlight’s research on the (at least) $15.5 million the NJEA has spent for Gov. Murphy’s re-election.Read More
NJEdReport Helps Call Out More Shoddy Research from NJ Policy Perspective
Posted On10/07/2021 byThanks to NJEdReport for reposting Sunlight’s blog on more shoddy research from NJ Policy Perspective’s Mark “Jersey Jazzman” Weber and Bruce Baker. It’s the 10th time Sunlight has called this pair out. Weber and Baker’s long-standing M.O. is to cherry-pick the data to arrive at the preferred conclusions of NJPP’s generous funder, the NJEA. …Read More
NJEdReport Asks About Anti-Charter School Bias at New Jersey Public Radio
Posted On09/28/2021 byNJEdReport sends a poignant message to New Jersey Public Radio managing editor Nancy Solomon after Solomon expressed anti-charter school bias in an email to Sunlight.Read More
NJEdReport Reposts Sunlight’s Blog on the (True) Sorry State of NJ’s Public Pensions
Posted On09/23/2021 byThanks again to NJEdReport for amplifying the facts. It’s particularly important that the facts get out into the public domain so they can counter the happy talk from the Murphy administration. Unfortunately, the NJ press neglects to do so. The fact is that Gov. Murphy prefers to accede to the wishes of his public union…Read More
Montclair Local Reports on Sunlight’s Research on NJEA’s Record-Breaking Spending to Elect Sean Spiller
Posted On09/22/2021 byIn a fair and even-handed piece, the Montclair Local reported on Sunlight’s research into the record amount of money that was spent to elect NJEA President Sean Spiller as Montclair mayor. Sunlight estimates that $310,000 was spent to elect Spiller versus $10,000 spent by his opponent Renee Baskerville, which was $80,000 more than was spent in…Read More
Thanks to NJEdReport for Enhancing Sunlight’s Report on NJEA Support for Sean Spiller’s Political Career
Posted On09/21/2021 byNJEdReport does an excellent job of condensing Sunlight’s work into a readable one-pager, and adding a picture of Spiller and his pal, Gov. Murphy, which is worth a thousand words.Read More
NJEA Inundated Montclair with Unprecedented Political Spending to Elect NJEA President Sean Spiller Mayor
Posted On09/20/2021 byPreviously Unreported Filings Shows $56.99 was spent for each Spiller vote versus $1.97 for His Opponent, Dr. Renee Baskerville When Sunlight Policy Center first delved into the NJEA’s support for its current president, Sean Spiller’s, mayoral run, we determined that Spiller had raised $57,000, of which $36,000 came from the NJEA and its allies. WE…Read More