IS THE EDUCATION TRUTH PROJECT A NJEA-FUNDED, DARK MONEY PAC?
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, It sure looks like the NJEA is funding another dark money Super PAC, this time aimed squarely at parents running for school board this fall. Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey recently received several tips that New Jersey’s most powerful special interest, the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), is funding a new dark money Super PAC aimed at this fall’s school board elections. This would make sense, as a dark money Super PAC would complement the other parts of the NJEA’s multi-pronged, statewide campaign to fight the wave of parental activism in school districts across the state.
This post-pandemic upsurge of parents seeking greater control over what their children are taught threatens a NJEA-dominated status quo. Long ago, the NJEA figured out that if local NJEA affiliates could control school boards, they could rig the system and effectively elect their own bosses. NJEA-friendly school boards would then be able to negotiate NJEA-friendly contracts with local NJEA affiliates. Property taxpayers would pay the bill but would not have a seat at the bargaining table, just the way the NJEA wanted it. So now that this status quo is being challenged by parents, the NJEA is all-in.
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A dark money Super PAC would allow the NJEA to spend unlimited amounts of money to elect union-friendly candidates while hiding the source of the money. After digging into the facts and connecting the dots, Sunlight believes that there is a strong case that there is indeed a new dark money Super PAC funded by the NJEA that is aimed at statewide school board races this fall. The NJEA wants New Jerseyans to think that the parents running for school board are “extremists” and “bad actors,” but they’re not. They are just parents who did not like what they saw when they got a closeup look at what their kids were being taught during remote learning. So, parents, beware! The NJEA is coming after you with TV ads, opposition research, union-friendly candidates trained and supported by the NJEA, and now with piles of dark money.
https://sunlightpolicynj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Report-of-Education-Truth-Project-PDF.pdf
NJEA… Do It
ForAgainst The Kids.This needs to be stopped…at all costs.
At ALL costs…
Valley Hosp was quite active with the candidates as I recall.
Just say no.
NJEA endorsed candidates.
NJEA spent on media marketing for both candidates they endorsed. They are talking about “teachers know the best” and “assessment don’t matter”.. i.e. don’t hold teachers accountable for failing students!