Stuff in the ‘Network of Allies’ Category
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
More Indications that Education Truth Project and NJ Public Education Coalition Are NEA/NJEA Fronts
Posted On04/25/2023 byTime for another update on the dark-money Super PAC Education Truth Project (ETP) and its New Jersey affiliate, New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC). Both organizations were set up to back progressive school board candidates against the wave of parent-activists who ran for school board during the 2022 election cycle and were supported by groups…Read More
NJ Public Education Coalition Is Now an “Affiliate” of a Dark-Money Super PAC that Looks Like an NJEA Front
Posted On03/31/2023 byWe now have a little more transparency in the opaque world of New Jersey’s progressive dark money and activist network, but the key question is: who provides the funding for dark-money Super PAC Education Truth Project (ETP)? As Sunlight laid out exhaustively, the circumstantial evidence points strongly to ETP being an NJEA (and/or its parent,…Read More
“New Jersey Politics at their Worst:” Gov. Murphy Seeks to Remove Head of Independent Elections Watchdog
Posted On03/22/2023 byAs the Bergen Record‘s Charlie Stile sees it, Gov. Murphy’s move to weaken New Jersey’s independent elections watchdog (ELEC) amounts to “New Jersey politics at their worst.” There’s a lot not to like about the Orwellian-named “Elections Transparency Act” but the weakening of ELEC is the most consequential. The bill looks like it will be passed by…Read More
The Shadowy NJ Public Education Coalition Strikes Again, Seeks State Help in Intimidating School Boards
Posted On03/16/2023 byThe shadowy New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) strikes again. Is it a NJEA dark-money front? The Star-Ledger reports that NJPEC sent a letter to Gov. Murphy and the DOE asking them to crack down on school boards that are not implementing Murphy’s controversial sex ed guidelines the way NJPEC thinks they should. NJPEC has…Read More
NJ Public Education Coalition: the NJEA’s Dark Money and Shadowy Network of Allies Try to Intimidate School Boards
Posted On03/07/2023 byThe plot thickens. Now we see two shadowy progressive organizations join together to fight parents who have challenged the NJEA’s progressive agenda, especially those parents elected to school boards. All signs point to the dark money behind this combined effort coming from the NJEA. Apparently, unable to get teachers involved in its school board fights,…Read More