Today New Jersey’s Sunlight Policy Center launched a six-figure billboard campaign that takes aim at the New Jersey Education Association’s aggressive approach to keeping schools closed for the state’s 1.4 million schoolchildren.
A source told NJ Ed Report that the campaign is driven, in part, by NJEA leaders’ influence over Gov. Phil Murphy. While Murphy has said he wants all schools open in September, some school boards are facing combative local unions who continue to oppose in-school instruction. Currently 246 districts, less than half in the state, are fully open while restaurants, gyms, personal services, movie theaters, stores, museums, and amusement parks will open without indoor capacity caps on May 19th.
Billboards will continue going up across the state throughout the month. “It’s clear that parents want schools open,” said a source. “New Jersey schools aren’t closed because of science, they’re closed because of NJEA’s leverage over Murphy.
Sunlight Policy Center is a non-profit think tank that defines its mission as “informing New Jersey citizens of the facts behind our state’s dysfunctional status quo and advocating for policy solutions that put New Jersey back on the path to future prosperity.”
Here are replicas of the billboards:
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