NJEA Honchos Need To Work on Reading Comprehension

NJEA published its monthly missive yesterday, this one refuting any value to charter schools in New Jersey, except as short-term “laboratories” to test “best practices.”

Quote of the Day

Teachers are not the problem. It’s the over-politicized of the leadership of their union. Governor-Elect Chris Christie on 101.5’s “Ask the Governor” radio show last

Quote of the Day

From the Star-Ledger’s feature today on the waning of NJEA’s influence: It was the latest example of how the NJEA has long flexed its political

Can N.J. Get Real About Race To The Top?

Thomas Carroll, President of the Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability, has a piece in the New York Post on why New York State will

Your NJEA Dues at Work

Last week we posted a powerpoint presented by NJEA’s Director of Governmental Relations, Ginger Gold Schnitzer, called “Campaign 2009: An Organizational Victory,” which documents NJEA’s

Not the Best Advertisement for Viagra

NJEA is touting its potent “member to member” campaign for Corzine (see yesterday’s post here and NJEA’s powerpoint here), and we’ve been poking at the

A Win for School Choice

Here’s a lame duck bill that’s not so lame: yesterday the Assembly Education Committee approved S2982, a bill sponsored by Senator Shirley Turner that revives

NJEA: Our Teachers Are Sheep

Mike Antonucci of Education Intelligence Agency, a website that seeks to reveal the inner workings of teachers’ unions, posted yesterday about NJEA’s covert campaign to