John Mooney is the founding editor of NJ Spotlight, starting the news site in 2009 after more than 30 years in print journalism. Before NJ Spotlight, John was an education reporter with the Newark Star-Ledger and the Bergen Record and a contributing writer for The New York Times.
In his attempt to prevent the state Supreme Court from 'legislating from the bench', Governor Christie nominated Morris County lawyer Anne Patterson to the state’s ...
An analysis of the state’s preliminary results showed an unprecedented 58 percent of budgets rejected yesterday; the proposed tax increases in the spurned budgets averaged ...
Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee fired away at Education Commissioner Bret Schundler about how Gov. Christie's plan to slash school funding would decimate schools ...
Gov. Chris Christie amped up the budget pressure on local teachers and administrators and called for them to reopen contracts and negotiate pay freezes for ...
Deep cuts in state aid for New Jersey schools has left many districts grappling with tough tradeoffs: Pay concessions from educators, layoffs or program reductions. ...