Check out my new column in today’s NJ Spotlight, “Life in the Democratic Lane”:

This split within New Jersey’s Democratic Party on issues pertinent to public education is slowly starting to be reflected in the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) itself. Like the blue side of the Statehouse, the NJEA was in years past a monolithic megaphone for New Jersey’s public school teachers and other school employees, a reliable conduit for shared beliefs. Recently, however, a few new groups have emerged around the edges that don’t share the same lock-step slate and diverge from the NJEA’s platform on hot-button reform issues.