June 5, 2024
Petal Robertson, Secretary-Treasurer of the New Jersey Education Association, has been visiting school districts and speaking to NJEA members about “pension justice,” the proper financing […]
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August 4, 2023
The Star-Ledger reports that state pension investments have “raked in huge gains” so far this year, but the structurally unsound state pension system is still in trouble. […]
April 25, 2023
According to a new report from Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey, the teachers pension plan (Teachers’ Pension and Annuity Fund, or TPAF), is going […]
March 31, 2023
As Gov. Murphy proposes to pump another $7 billion of the state budget into New Jersey’s unreformed public pension system, Sunlight thought it would be […]
March 28, 2023
Back in 2018 the New Jersey School Boards Association predicted the Murphy Administration’s new school funding law called S2, which limits property tax increases to […]
October 4, 2022
Newark Public Schools is desperate to fill teaching slots, a combination of teacher burn-out and an increase in the number of teachers employed by the […]
September 27, 2022
Unfortunately, a recent news story by NJ101.5 got it all wrong about an increase in teacher healthcare premiums. We have nothing against NJ101.5, which usually does a good […]
July 19, 2022
Josh Weston, who founded Automatic Data Processing (ADP) with the late New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, has some harsh words for the payroll of NJEA […]
July 15, 2022
Last week Mike Lilley of Sunlight Policy Center published the startling news that in 2019 state teachers union executive director Ed Richardson received $2.5 million […]
July 9, 2022
Now we know: New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) retiring Executive Director Ed Richardson was paid $2,485,357 in 2019. As executive director from 2013 to 2019, […]
June 28, 2022
New Jersey school administrators sound the alarm about teacher shortages. The U.S. Department of Education says New Jersey has a shortage of teachers in math, […]
June 13, 2022
Two weeks ago Mark Weber, also known as “Jersey Jazzman,” issued a report through New Jersey Policy Perspective called “New Jersey’s Teacher Pipeline: The Decline […]