The Sunlight Monitor
Our posts on the issues of the day.
July 16, 2026
Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman has recently spilled a lot of ink — literally thousands of words — over the state’s policies regarding transgender students. […]
July 9, 2026
We hope this is the last time we write about former-NJEA President Sean Spiller. Spiller may seem like old news: after all, his scandalous, dues-funded run […]
June 18, 2026
Sunlight has embarked on a campaign to inform the half of teachers hired since 2011 about their worst-in-the-nation Tier 5 pension plan. As we have documented […]
June 12, 2026
Well, It looks like Sunlight was right all along. The NJEA is losing members and current leadership’s actions appear to confirm it. We previously estimated that […]
June 9, 2026
The data shows that students in states with powerful teachers unions have underperformed those in states with weaker ones in recovering from pandemic-related learning loss. That […]
June 3, 2026
Exxon and Samsung are leaving New Jersey for Texas. New Jersey has the highest corporate tax rate in the nation, while Texas has no corporate tax. […]