NJEA

Bill Spadea throws his support behind NJ's teachers and lays out a plan on how they can be paid better.

The NJEA has once again overstepped their bounds and Bill Spadea thinks it is about time for teachers to have their voices heard.

NJEA President, Wendell Steinhauer joined Deminski & Doyle in studio yesterday to discuss the results of the PARCC Test for NJ students. There was a great debate in the months leading up to the PARCC testing by parents and educators alike as to whether New Jersey should be one of the seven states to take part in the testing. Pa...

In a late afternoon State House press conference Monday, Assembly GOP Leader Join Bramnick (R-Westfield) accused the New Jersey Education Association of spending roughly $3 million dollars to prop up the campaigns of Democratic Assembly candidates in three districts because they answered a survey saying would support the positions of the teachers’ union.

Many New Jerseyans want the state to make full payments into the public employees pension system, but the Garden State simply does not have the money, according to a legislator who is working on new pension reforms.

Here is what Deminski and Doyle are talking about on today’s show.

New Jersey's largest teacher's union put out a statement Friday saying Governor Christie was continuing a "long history of lying about pensions." Before you dismiss this as governor bashing, here's the backstory.

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — An official with the state's largest teachers union says it will continue to press Gov. Chris Christie to make a court-ordered $1.6 billion payment into New Jersey's public pension system.

Gov. Chris Christie said last night that he and the New Jersey Education Association are “getting closer” to a mutually acceptable "roadmap" toward a new approach to pensions for the state’s teachers - one that could become a model for other state worker unions.

Not so fast, the New Jersey Education Association is saying, after Gov. Chris Christie's budget address Tuesday.