Stuff in the ‘Political Spending and Influence’ Category
NJEA Pushes for a “Progressive” State Board of Ed Against the Wishes of NJ Citizens. How Does this Benefit Teachers, President Spiller?
Posted On12/20/2023 byNJEA President Sean Spiller is using the NJEA’s well-bought influence with Gov. Murphy and the Democratic legislature to try to turn the State Board of Education (SBOE) into a thoroughly “progressive” policymaker. But how does this benefit teachers? It doesn’t, which is likely why Spiller published his op-ed on a news website but not on…Read More
Truth In Accounting: NJ Last in the Nation for Long-Term Financial Condition. Again.
Posted On12/06/2023 byAnother last-in-the-nation ranking for New Jersey under Gov. Murphy. Last week, we reported that New Jersey’s tax climate for businesses was dead last, and this week it’s New Jersey’s long-term financial condition that’s ranked dead last, according to Truth In Accounting’s “Financial State of the States 2023.” New Jersey has been dead last in the…Read More
NorthJersey.com’s Mary Ann Koruth Still Can’t Tell It Straight on the Culture Wars, Ignores NJEA’s Spending and Influence
Posted On11/17/2023 byNorthJersey.com’s Mary Ann Koruth still can’t tell it straight when it comes to the “culture wars.” She continues to steadfastly ignore massive NJEA spending — and therefore influence — on this year’s school board races. To be fair, her recent article on the school board races accurately declared that overall the results were mixed. Both…Read More
Smoking Gun: Anti-Parent Group NJ Public Education Coalition Is a NJEA Front
Posted On11/06/2023 byWe now have direct proof: anti-parent-group New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) is a NJEA front, and its founder, mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman is a proven liar. Too bad for the voters who won’t have this information before they vote for their school boards tomorrow. Sunlight has long had to rely on…Read More
Once again, NorthJersey.com’s Mary Ann Koruth Can’t Tell It Straight in Her Reports on the Culture Wars
Posted On11/02/2023 byOnce again, NorthJersey.com’s Mary Ann Koruth just can’t tell it straight when it comes to the culture wars being fought in New Jersey school districts. She adopts the pro-NJEA, “progressive” side’s framing of the issue and is remarkably incurious about the NJEA’s role. In her most recent piece on the groups involved in this year’s…Read More
After Being Caught Offsides by a Monmouth Poll, the NJEA Engineers Its Own Poll to Claim It is Aligned with Parents
Posted On10/24/2023 byAs is well known in polling, if you want a certain response, you have to ask the right question. The way you phrase the question makes all the difference. Now we have a classic example of such polling in the New Jersey culture wars, and in particular over mandatory parental notification policies. The NJEA has…Read More
A Deeply Deceptive Ad from Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and NJ Public Education Coalition
Posted On10/19/2023 byMore mendacity from Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and the NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC), this time in a deeply deceptive digital ad. The bullying Gottesman likes to accuse his opponents of lying, but, using his terminology, who is really lying here? Once again, it is Gottesman. Will the facts cause InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack revise…Read More
InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack Provides Slanted Coverage of the Culture Wars — Joining Others in the NJ Press Corps
Posted On10/17/2023 byLooks like more slanted coverage of the culture wars by the NJ press corps. This time it’s InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack. We’re starting to see a pattern. In his piece “Judicial Integrity and the Culture Wars,” Snowflack has this lede: “Sexualization of children … lies by the parent’s rights lobby … astonishment in Hanover.” The clear…Read More
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
It’s a Fact: NJEA Leadership Wants to Keep Teachers in the Dark About Their Constitutional Rights, and Wants PERC to Help Them
Posted On10/05/2023 byWe now have incontrovertible confirmation that the NJEA is trying to keep teachers in the dark about their 1st Amendment rights. A recent New Jersey Monitor report described how the Wayne Education Association (WEA) is pushing the NJ Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) to force the Wayne School District to block Sunlight’s emails informing teachers…Read More