Stuff in the ‘Network of Allies’ Category
Once Again, Insider NJ’s Fred Snowflack Flacks for NJEA-Funded Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and NJPEC.
Posted On11/18/2024 byInsider NJ‘s Fred Snowflack continues to flack for Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJ Public Education Coalition’s (NJPEC). Once again, Snowflack’s piece reads like a NJPEC press release, and once again he studiously avoids the fact that Gottesman and NJPEC are funded by the NJEA. We ask for the fourth time; why…Read More
Will NJEA-Funded Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Remove the Names of School Children from His Open-Records Request?
Posted On11/14/2024 byWhat say you, Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman? Will you remove the names of the 82 Cherry Hill school children from your open-records request so that they are no longer visible to the public? Sunlight was alerted to a recent blog post that accused Gottesman and his New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) of…Read More
NJEA 3Q Filing: $7.25 Million Backing Sean Spiller; $550,000 for NJEA-Friendly School Board Candidates and GOTV
Posted On11/05/2024 bySunlight had the opportunity to view another quarterly IRS Form 8872 filing by the NJEA’s Super PAC, Garden State Forward for the July 1 – September 30 period, which was a very busy quarter for Garden State Forward. Here are the notable contributions: Working New Jersey: $7.25 million Education Truth Project: $200,000 (2024 total $300,000)…Read More
Teachers Continue To Show They Do Not Want to Spend Their Hard-Earned Money on Politics, But NJEA Leadership Continues To Spend It
Posted On10/18/2024 byContinuing our perusal of the NJEA’s 2022 IRS Form 990, we looked at member donations to the NJEA’s traditional political action committee (PAC), NJEA PAC. Contributions to NJEA PAC are a good barometer for members’ enthusiasm for NJEA political spending because NJEA PAC is funded by a voluntary, separate dues stream that members must opt…Read More
NJEA Continues to Pour Money into Education Law Center, NJ Policy Perspective, and NJ Working Families Alliance
Posted On10/09/2024 byThe NJEA’s 2022 IRS Form 990 is finally available, so we can update the NJEA’s funding for its network of allies. The NJEA continues to fund three key allies: the Education Law Center (ELC), New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP), and the New Jersey Working Families Alliance (NJWFA), all of whom help to ensure that the…Read More
NJEA Spends $150,000 Via Dark-Money Proxies to Elect Progressive School Board Candidates: Mendacious Michael Gottesman and NJ Public Education Coalition on the Warpath
Posted On08/27/2024 byBeware New Jersey parents and school boards! The NJEA is gearing up for this fall’s school board elections and plans to spend a great deal of money via its dark-money front, New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC), and its long-time ally, Action Together New Jersey (ATNJ). In 2023, NJPEC partnered with ATNJ to provide assistance…Read More
InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack Flacks for Mendacious Michael Gottesman and His NJEA-Funded Coalition. Why the Bias, Mr. Snowflack?
Posted On02/27/2024 byInsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack is back with his biased take on the culture wars in NJ school districts. The title of his recent piece “Hitting the Books, or Just Banning Them,” makes Snowflack’s bias plain for all to see. It’s all about a “loud minority” banning books, not legitimate parental concerns about inappropriate content in their…Read More
Will AG Platkin Hold Gov. Murphy’s Pals Sean Spiller and Brendan Gill to the Same Standards as the Wildwood Three?
Posted On02/09/2024 byWill Gov. Murphy’s pals NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller and Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill receive the same treatment as the three Wildwood officials who were just indicted by Attorney General Platkin? All the above availed themselves of full-time state health benefits under questionable circumstances. But the big difference is that Spiller and Gill have…Read More
The NJEA’s Active Role in the Scorched-Earth Politics Aimed at the North Hunterdon-Voorhees School Board
Posted On01/26/2024 byAs intended, Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJEA-funded NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) succeeded in turning a regular North Hunterdon-Voorhees (NHV) school board meeting into a large-scale political campaign — backed and financed by the NJEA. On the other side are NHV parents and school board members. It’s a hugely lopsided playing…Read More
Mendacious Michael Gottesman and NJPEC Want to Turn a North Hunterdon-Voorhees School Board Meeting into a Scorched-Earth Political Battleground
Posted On01/22/2024 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and his NJEA-funded NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) will stop at nothing to impose their progressive education agenda on NJ school districts. NJ citizens should be very concerned about the scorched-earth political campaigns Gottesman and NJPEC (with NJEA help) are bringing down on NJ school boards like North Hunterdon-Voorhees…Read More