Sleeping With the Fishes

Laura Waters June 22, 2011

SONNY (standing in front of Tom, who’s seated): No; no; no! No more! Not this time, consiglieri. No more meetin’s, no more discussions, no more

Cliffs and Fences

Laura Waters June 20, 2011

Democrats are in a bind. They can’t tell the unions to go to hell, and they can’t follow them off the cliff. But the fence

NJEA: Betrayed, Bothered, and Bewildered

Laura Waters June 17, 2011

The big news today is that the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee in a 9-4 vote released legislation that would increase public employee contributions to

NJ Democratic Identity Crisis

Laura Waters June 16, 2011

The New Jersey Education Association has released an expensive ad that accuses Republican Gov. Christie and Senate President and Democrat Steve Sweeney of caring “more

Quote of the Day

Laura Waters June 15, 2011

A source told PolitickerNJ.com tonight that the NJEA will go “nuclear” tomorrow with a huge anti-Sweeney-Christie-Norcross ad. Described as hard-hitting, the ad will combine with

“Saving the NJEA from Itself”

Laura Waters June 15, 2011

Check out my column in today’s NJ Spotlight, which includes suggestions to the union leadership on a strategy makeover.

NJEA Needs a Primer on Political Strategy

Laura Waters June 7, 2011

Case in point is the union’s endorsement of NJ Senate-hopeful Jerome Dunn (Union), running in the primary today as part of a slate called Democrats

Charter School Leftovers

Laura Waters May 20, 2011

On Monday the Assembly Education Committee will consider a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan that would require new charter schools to campaign for voter

Charter School Envy, Part II

Laura Waters May 19, 2011

Education Law Center, which has put out a 10-part proposal for revising NJ’s charter school law, also supports voter approval for new charters, just like

Four Degrees of NEA

Laura Waters May 16, 2011

Question: how many degrees of separation are there between the broadening coalition opposing the expansion of charter schools in New Jersey and the National Education