New Jersey
Building & Construction Trades union group endorses Kean in NJ-7 – New Jersey Globe
Citing his willingness to create “good union jobs,” New Jersey State Building & Construction Trades Council has endorsed Republican Tom Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield) for re-election to a second term in the 7th district.
The endorsement follows the New Jersey AFL-CIO’s decision not to take sides in the race between Kean and Democrat Sue Altman, which is widely viewed as one of the most competitive House races in the nation and one that could determine which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives next year. The building trades played a major role in stopping Altman from receiving that endorsement.
In 2022, the building trades and the AFL-CIO endorsed Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) for re-election against Kean.
The building trades will also not get involved in the July 17 special Democratic primary for Congress in the 10th district, where twelve candidates want to fill the unexpired term of Donald Payne, Jr. (D-Newark), who died in April.
The umbrella group for the state’s building trades unions is backing Democrat Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) for the U.S. Senate. Kim is running against Republican Curtis Bashaw and incumbent Bob Menendez, who is seeking re-election as an independent.
In addition to Kean, the labor group is supporting nine incumbents seeking re-election: Democrats Donald Norcross (D-Camden), Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-Long Branch), Robert J. Menendez (D-Jersey City), Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-Paterson), Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing) ; and two Republicans, Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis) and Christopher Smith (R-Manchester).
For Kim’s open 3rd district House seat, the building trades group is supporting Assemblyman Herb Conaway, Jr. (D-Delran), a Democrat.
“This year the election campaigns of U.S. Senate and Congressional candidates promise to be like few others our country have ever experienced, and the outcomes may never be more consequential,” said Mullen. “But, despite the enormous political and ideological divides that are infecting our country, this year also presents a unique opportunity to begin the process of restoring the sense of unity our country seems to have lost.”
Mullen said that building trades unions “can play a pivotal role in encouraging a return to normalcy by helping to elect men and women to high office who will reject blind partisanship and seek cooperation and compromise within our national dialogue.”
He pledged to work in a “unified manner” to register his members to vote and “deliver victories to all its endorsed candidates.”
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The Teaching Profession is one of the most unique career fields in the United States. Most teachers typically work 50-60 hours a week from September to May. When not working during the school year, many teachers pick up Summer jobs or work for the Summer School program.
Also, getting a teaching career started involves taking a state-specific certification test along with other prerequisites depending on what school they work at and what level of education they are working as a teacher.
Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney Online gathered data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the National Council on Teacher Quality, and the National Education Association to find out what are the best states to be a teacher in America.
The team at UTS Online weighed the following factors when creating their rankings of the best and worst states to be a teacher:
-Teacher Compensation
-Education and School Statistics
-Student Performance and Attainment
-Teacher Employment and Preparation
-School Environment
Where Does New Jersey Rank on the List of Best States For Teachers
In a Press Release from UTS Online, their research team ranked New Jersey as the second-best state for Teaching Careers in America. New Jersey Schools rank as some of the Safest Education Environments in the United States and a high rate of New Teachers ( 56 percent ) qualify for Teacher Pensions in New Jersey.
New Jersey Students rank number two in the United States in the Student Performance and Attainment Category, meaning that many NJ Students have a clear path to attaining a High School Degree. This makes a New Jersey Teacher’s job more straightforward compared to other states.
One more area unique to The Garden State is 8th Grade Students in New Jersey average the highest NAEP reading scores in the United States (270.25). This is significantly higher than New Jersey’s neighboring states of Pennsylvania and Delaware.
According to the UTS Rankings, Pennsylvania is the 12th best state for Teaching Careers and Delaware is 31st overall. Pennsylvania received low scores for Teacher Employment and Preparation while Delaware got low scores for Teacher Compensation.
Here are the Top Ten Best States For Teachers:
1. Massachusetts
2. New Jersey
3. Connecticut
4. New York
5. North Dakota
6. Maryland
7. Illinois
8. Georgia
9. Colorado
10. Vermont
11. Virginia
12. Pennsylvania
Continuing the conversation about Education in New Jersey, here is a ranking of the Best Public Schools in The Garden State based on Average Academic Scores:
Top 30 public schools in New Jersey
These are the 30 highest-ranking public and charter schools in New Jersey based on the 2022-23 summative ratings provided by the state Department of Education’s annual NJ School Performance Report. The schools are listed in ascending order, with the highest rating being 100.
Gallery Credit: New Jersey 101.5
There’s a new poll in the New Jersey Senate race that puts Republican Curtis Bashaw in striking distance of winning a three-way contest against Democrat Andy Kim and independent Bob Menendez, the incumbent.
The poll has Kim leading Bashaw by six points, 39%-33%, with 3% for Menendez and 25% of likely New Jersey voters still undecided.
Kim’s lead expanded to 41%-24% in a head-to-head poll against Menendez, a three-term U.S. Senator who is currently on trial on federal corruption charges.
Six in ten Hispanics view Menendez unfavorably; Kim has a 32%-26% lead among Hispanic likely voters, with Menendez at just 3%.
The poll was conducted by co/efficient, a newish, little-known independent survey firm in Kansas City with a one-star in 538’s pollster ratings. The pollster, Ryan Munce, appears to be Republican- leaning.
The same poll shows Donald Trump and Joe Biden in a statistical dead heat in New Jersey; Trump leads, 41%-40%, with 7% for independent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and other third-party contenders.
Neither of the Senate candidates is especially well-known: Kim has favorables of 30%-20%, while Bashaw is at 13%-14%; 50% of voters have never heard of Kim, a three-term congressman and former Obama White House staffer, and 73% don’t know who Bashaw is.
Menendez’s favorables are at 4%-71%. The co/efficient poll also has Gov. Phil Murphy with upside-down favorables of 36%-24% Favorables for Trump (45%-50%) and Biden (36%-56%) are both underwater.
Trump’s favorables among Republicans is at 88%, although that didn’t stop the state party from re-electing fervently anti-Trump candidate Bill Palatucci, a close ally of former Gov. Chris Christie, for Republican National Committeeman on Thursday.
A generic ballot test in the U.S. Senate race has Democrats with a 12-point lead, 46%-34%.
The co/efficient poll was conducted on June 26-27 using mobile text responses and landline interviews, and a sample size of 810 likely general election voters and a +/- 3.4% margin of error.
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