The Taxpayer-Funded NJEA Political Machine
2019 NJEA IRS 990: RETIRING NJEA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ED RICHARDSON WAS PAID $2.5 MILLION
Posted On07/08/2022 by2019 NJEA IRS 990: RETIRING NJEA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ED RICHARDSON WAS PAID $2.5 MILLION ALL PAID FOR BY TEACHERS’ HIGHEST-IN-THE-NATION DUES Now we know: New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) retiring Executive Director Ed Richardson was paid $2,485,357 in 2019. As executive director from 2013 to 2019, Richardson ran the state’s most powerful special interest, spending…Read More
Executive Summary: Ugly Truths And Hard Facts About New Jersey’s Pension Crisis, Part 2
Posted On12/08/2020 byNJEA LEADERSHIP HAS SECURE, GOLD-PLATED PENSIONS WHILE TEACHERS’ PENSIONS ARE INFERIOR AND AT RISK Executive Summary It’s time for New Jersey’s teachers to wake up to the ugly truths and hard facts about their pensions: They are vastly inferior to the pensions that the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) leadership provides for themselves – all…Read More
Executive Summary: Ugly Truths And Hard Facts About New Jersey’s Pension Crisis, Part 1
Posted On09/21/2020 byA CASE STUDY OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A SPECIAL INTEREST LIKE THE NJEA BECOMES TOO POWERFUL Executive Summary New Jersey’s past is coming back to haunt the present at a very bad time. In this time of COVID-squeezed budgets, Governor Phil Murphy has proposed making a $4.9 billion contribution to shore up New Jersey’s worst-in-the-nation…Read More
Executive Summary: New Jersey Teachers’ Dues: Why Are They The Highest In The Nation And What Are They Paying For?
Posted On06/22/2020 byTEACHERS’ EVER-INCREASING DUES BURDEN IS FUNDING THE NJEA’S OUTSIZED, EVEN WASTEFUL POLITICAL SPENDING AND LAVISH EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION. Executive Summary New Jersey’s teachers are getting a raw deal, and most are not even aware of it. Most spend their energy and passion teaching our children and contributing to their communities, not worrying about where their dues…Read More
Executive Summary – Follow The Money: What The NJEA Really Spends On Politics
Posted On06/03/2019 byHaving rigged the system to secure taxpayer funding and the direct pass-through of teachers’ dues, the NJEA has spent most of this money on politics. Yet New Jersey citizens and even its own members are largely unaware of how much it actually spends on politics. The NJEA has cleverly used loopholes and disguises to mask…Read More
Executive Summary – NJEA: The Taxpayer-Funded Special Interest
Posted On05/28/2019 byHow has the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) – a private, special interest – become the most powerful political force in the state? By rigging the system to secure annual, automatic taxpayer funding. Since 1994, over $2.1 billion in taxpayer funding, reaching a record $129 million in 2018. Decades ago, the NJEA used it political…Read More
Executive Summary – NJEA: New Jersey’s Political Machine
Posted On05/20/2019 byThe modern New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) is a taxpayer-funded political machine. Political organizing infuses the organization from top to bottom. At the top, the NJEA Executive Office is now run by political operators: three quarters of the Executive Office are political organizers. Almost all of the headquarters staff are engaged in some form of…Read More