Stuff in the ‘Network of Allies’ Category
Can InsiderNJ’s Jay Lassiter Explain Why This Shouldn’t Be Construed as Bias?
Posted On10/13/2023 byWhen Sunlight publishes a report, we send it to a press list that we have complied over the years. One of the reporters on the list is Jay Lassiter of InsiderNJ. Reporters are the filter through which many people get their news, and it is our view is that reporters should be unbiased and report…Read More
Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Adds Serial Bullying to His Serial Mendacity
Posted On09/28/2023 byThanks to one of our readers for a heads-up about more bullying from mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman, the founder of NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC). Sunlight has documented Gottesman’s serial mendacity and now we can add serial bullying to Gottesman’s profile. We think there’s a strong case that Gottesman and NJPEC are NEA/NJEA…Read More
NJPP’s Weber and Baker Say NJ Must Spend $4 Billion More to Match Massachusetts’ Education Results, but MA Spends Less than NJ
Posted On09/21/2023 byWe cannot let a new report from the dynamic duo of New Jersey Policy Perspective’s Mark Weber, PhD. (a.k.a., “Jersey Jazzman”) and Bruce Baker go by without a perusal. Sunlight has documented their long history of producing shoddy, biased research in the service of NJPP’s $1.25 million donor, the NJEA (of which Weber is a…Read More
A Question for Northjersey.com’s Mary Ann Koruth: Why Such One-Sided Coverage of NJ’s Culture Wars?
Posted On09/12/2023 byWe have some questions for northjersey.com‘s Mary Ann Koruth about her report “National right-wing groups enter NJ’s legal battles with schools over parental rights.” It is true, as she states, that the Goldwater Institute has joined the legal battle over parental notification policies by supporting a lawsuit by a Marlboro parent against the State of…Read More
Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman, NJPEC Use Open Record Requests to Intimidate School Boards and Parents
Posted On08/15/2023 byMichael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) are trying to intimidate school boards and parents who dared to opt their kids out of the state’s controversial sex-ed guidelines. Thanks to a friend, Sunlight was sent a copy of an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request signed by Gottesman individually and…Read More
Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman Adds Hypocrisy to His Habitual Mendacity
Posted On07/19/2023 byMendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman is at it again. The founder of the New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) recently took to the pages of NJEdReport to decry parents ostensibly using their children as “spies” to expose “woke” indoctrination in public school classrooms. Gottesman claims that, by such actions, the “radical right” aims to…Read More
More Mendacity and Bullying from Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman
Posted On06/27/2023 byMeet Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman, founder of the NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC), the group trying to bully school boards into adopting a progressive education agenda. Gottesman got his nickname because he maintained to the Star-Ledger that “right-wing extremist” groups had “hundreds of millions of dollars being donated to them in New Jersey” to…Read More
More Signs that Education Truth Project and NJ Public Education Coalition Are NEA/NJEA Fronts
Posted On06/20/2023 byDark-money Super PAC Education Truth Project (ETP) continues to look like a NEA/NJEA front. Sunlight must rely on circumstantial evidence because ETP is funded by dark money, but there’s plenty of circumstantial evidence. And now we have more. And because ETP funds its affiliate, NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC), that group is also likely funded…Read More
The Modern, Hyper-Political NJEA: More Spending on Super PAC, Less on Charitable Grants
Posted On06/06/2023 bySunlight finally obtained the NJEA’s 2018 IRS Form 990, which now gives us a consecutive set of recent returns. One section of the Form 990 provides information on all the NJEA’s grants to outside organizations, including charitable grants as well as those to its Super PAC, Garden State Forward. As can be seen in the…Read More
Working Families, NJ Policy Perspective and Education Law Center: The NJEA’s Million-Dollar Allies
Posted On05/16/2023 byMaking our way through the NJEA’s 2020 IRS filing (the most recent), we now turn to the NJEA’s network of allies. The NJEA has long used its millions of withheld teachers’ dues to fund a variety of groups that augment the NJEA’s pursuit of political influence, often allowing the NJEA to obscure its own role…Read More