The Sunlight Monitor
Our posts on the issues of the day.
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. […]
May 29, 2026
To New Jerseyans who follow our state’s politics, it will come as little surprise that the NJEA was ranked as one of the strongest teachers union […]
May 21, 2026
Gov. Sherrill is saying the right things about New Jersey’s public education system. Unlike former-Gov. Murphy, who unconditionally parroted the NJEA’s claim that our schools are […]