Stuff in the ‘The Taxpayer-Funded Political Machine’ Category
NJEA Leadership Hides $64 Million in Super PAC Political Spending from Teachers Whose Dues Pay for It
Posted On09/14/2023 bySome of the most consistent feedback Sunlight has received in its campaign to inform teachers of their 1st Amendment rights revolves around the fact that most teachers have no idea that the NJEA’s Super PAC, Garden State Forward, even exists. Much less do they know that their regular dues are paying for Garden State Forward….Read More
Confirmed: NJEA Dues Are the Highest in the Nation — by 32% — and NJEA Membership Below 193,000
Posted On09/07/2023 byWe have independent confirmation of our blog post on Tuesday, where we reported that the NJEA raised teachers’ dues to $1,038 a year, the highest in the nation by far and that NJEA membership had fallen to 193,000 in 2021-22. Looks like we were right on both counts. As the graph below shows, at $1,038…Read More
NJEA Hikes Teachers’ Highest-in-the-Nation Dues to $1,038; Estimated Membership Declines to 193,000
Posted On09/06/2023 byWith the start of the new school year, New Jersey teachers’ highest-in-the-nation dues just went 4% higher, from $999 for the 2022-23 school year to $1,038 this year. Perhaps because teachers’ dues were already so very high, the NJEA delegate assembly voted to freeze dues for last year, but no longer. The dues for the…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
Conflict of Interest: NJEA President Spiller Uses Teachers’ Highest-in-the-Nation Dues for His Own Political Ambitions
Posted On07/14/2023 byLooks like NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller is actively pursuing his personal political ambitions, and he’s happy to use New Jersey teachers’ highest-in-the-nation dues to do it. Perhaps Spiller’s mounting legal troubles in Montclair have spurred him to seek greener pastures for his next campaign for public office. The New Jersey Globe reports that Spiller, “a…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
Student Test Scores Continue to Plummet, NJ’s Remediation Plan Is Failing Badly, and Gov. Murphy Is AWOL
Posted On06/21/2023 byWe have two disturbing pieces of news about learning loss for NJ students. First, a new update on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the “nation’s report card” on student learning, and the news is terrible: both reading and math scores continue to plummet due to lingering effects from school closures. Here’s…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
Lee Siegel: Montclair School Kids Suffer While NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Spiller Focuses on His Political Ambitions
Posted On06/09/2023 byLong-time Montclair resident Lee Siegel penned a scathing article in City Journal on the poor condition of Montclair’s schools and the apparent indifference of its mayor, NJEA President Sean Spiller. Siegel notes that Montclair’s political elite, including Spiller, mouth progressive platitudes, but their actions speak louder than their words. As always, it’s the kids —…Read More