The NJEA funds a large network of allies who cooperate with the NJEA in political action and help it build coalitions that broaden its reach and impact.  Such allies also provide the NJEA with supportive research to bolster its political goals, legal expertise to supplement them, and often the cover of a seemingly broader-based political movement to mask the self-interested nature of the NJEA’s political actions.  The general public is largely unaware of the depth of this network of allies, which constitutes another way in which the NJEA’s political power far exceeds what is commonly known.