New Jersey
Public Education Coalition
THE NEW JERSEY PUBLIC EDUCATION COALITION (NJPEC) is a non-partisan group of educators, administrators, municipal leaders, parents, and concerned citizens who seek to protect our public schools and communities from right-wing extremism.
Across the country and here in New Jersey, radical right Political Action Committees (PACs) and their supporters are succeeding in disrupting our communities and attacking our public schools.
As right-wing extremists continue to gain seats on our school boards, they are attacking our teachers, librarians, and administrators, forcing hard-working, qualified educators to resign. They are attacking our children's education with hate, intolerance, and racial bias; attempting to whitewash American history and ban award-winning books; and sowing division and pain in our communities.
NJPEC began as a Facebook Group for parents, educators, and citizens to come together to organize in each municipality, fight disinformation, and support qualified common sense elected officials and school board candidates.
Right-wing extremist organizations along with elected GOP officials are actively recruiting, training, endorsing, and funding school board candidates and they are invigorated by their success in 2022.
We are a diverse and rapidly growing grassroots organization working in partnership with our friends and with like-minded organizations and groups across the state to make sure this does not happen again.
New Jersey School Districts Have School Board Elections Every Year in April or November: Don’t miss your opportunity to be heard on April 19th or November 7, 2023.
Engage, Educate and Collaborate
Our mission is to:
ENGAGE
ENGAGE a larger portion of the population of stakeholders. If the majority of people in our state were aware of how crucial these school board elections are, more people would vote and extremists would be less likely to win.
EDUCATE
EDUCATE the population so that they can see the misinformation and disinformation for what it is: propaganda and lies. We want voters to be able to make logical, factual, informed conclusions about current issues and school board candidates.
COLLABORATE
COLLABORATE, not only as individuals but by bringing together the multitude of other existing organizations with aligned goals to protect public education and promote diversity, inclusion, and acceptance.
Upcoming Events
News
The December 2, 2022 episode of New York Times’ The Daily “When Book Bans Came to Small Town New Jersey” along with a July 2022 article focuses on Annandale, N.J, where a Martha Hickson, a high school librarian was the target of false accusations of “grooming” for having LGBTQ+-themed books in the school library.
A December 2, 2022 article on NJ.com focuses on the continued backlash against a LGBTQ+ representation in Hunterdon Central, where there have been concerted efforts to remove a well-liked superintendent.
On December 11, 2022, Fox News presented a biased report surrounding a petition for the resignation of Northern Burlington Board of Education VP Angela Reading.
A March 13, 2023 article discusses our call to Gov. Phil Murphy and the acting state education commissioner to enforce New Jersey’s new sex ed standards.
A March 6, 2023 article focuses on the public disapproval of the Millstone Township Board of Education’s (BOE) unanimous vote for in-class restrictions to the LGBTQ-inclusive health and sex education curriculum.
