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June 13, 2023

By Michael Lilley, Sunlight Policy Center at June 13, 2023

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LILLEY: NJEA Continues to Give More to Dark Money PACs and Less to Charitable Grants

Sunlight Policy Foundation of New Jersey finally obtained the NJEA’s 2018 IRS Form 990, which now gives us a consecutive set of recent returns. One […]

June 13, 2023

By Laura Waters at June 13, 2023

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Montclair Mayor/Union President Summons NJEA Pals To School Budget Meeting

What’s going on in Montclair? More specifically, why is Mayor Sean Spiller, who also happens to be president of the New Jersey Education Association, summoning […]

June 13, 2023

By Contributor at June 13, 2023

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The Superintendent Of Newark Public Schools Is Losing His Mind

This is an editorial by the Star-Ledger Editorial Board and was first published here. Newark Superintendent Roger León is proposing a more than $2 billion […]

June 12, 2023

By Laura Waters at June 12, 2023

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Top 13 School Districts With the Highest Property Taxes

New Jersey homeowners pay the highest property taxes in the nation. This infamy stems from the way our state school system is structured—600 individual school […]

June 12, 2023

By Laura Waters at June 12, 2023

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New Report: Do NJ School Districts Need All the State Aid They Get? Maybe Not.

In 2008, New Jersey enacted the School Reform Funding Act (SRFA), with the intention of creating a new school funding formula with the goal of […]

June 12, 2023

By Staff Writer at June 12, 2023

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Here, Teachers Change Lives–And Everyone Is Celebrating

KIPP New Jersey, a network of free, open-enrollment public charter schools with campuses in Newark and Camden, just hosted its Alumni Summit, immediately followed by […]

COMMUNITIES

October 20, 2022

By Staff Writer at October 20, 2022

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Paterson Mayor Urges Resolution to Negotiations Impasse Between Teachers and School Board

Earlier this month parents, teachers and students gathered together to protest the Paterson Board of Education’s failure to come up with a solution to the […]

October 18, 2022

By Laura Waters at October 18, 2022

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Update on Newark Superintendent and School Board’s Latest Land-Grab

Newark’s State Street School is a small ramshackle building with eight classrooms that hasn’t been used since the 1950’s. Back in 2016 then-Superintendent Chris Cerf […]

October 18, 2022

By Contributor at October 18, 2022

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BOUIE & EDWARDS: Just Say NO to an Elected Trenton School Board!

Gene Bouie and Austin Edwards are members of the Trenton Board of Education. This article is not authorized by the Trenton School Board; we write […]

OPINION

January 14, 2021

By Michael Lilley, Sunlight Policy Center at January 14, 2021

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NJ Teachers: You’re Trapped in a System That Sucks Union Dues Out of Your Paychecks

President Will Swaim of the California Policy Center wrote a new year’s letter to CPC subscribers decrying the “legal corruption” by California’s public-sector unions. The letter’s language […]

January 8, 2021

By Laura Waters at January 8, 2021

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COMMENTARY: Was DeVos Really the “Worst Secretary of Education Ever”?

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned last night, citing Wednesday’s putsch at the Capitol, Trump’s incitement of violence, and her concern that “impressionable children are watching all […]

January 5, 2021

By Laura Waters at January 5, 2021

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NJER Commentary

COMMENTARY: I’m No DeVos Fan, but the New York Times’s Broadside Shows Its Bias

The New York Times Editorial Board, in a piece published Sunday called “The Wreckage Betsy DeVos Leaves Behind,” excoriates out-going U.S. Education Secretary DeVos for […]