The BHPSNJ OPRA Troubles
The District is Adding One More Layer Between Families and Important Information….. Recently I sent an email to the BOE, Superintendent, and Business Administrator with BHCW’s share of OPRA requests. Parents can understand that OPRA is one of the remaining avenues we have left to get information as the BOE majority continues to hide its work in committees away from...
06/05/2023 BOE Meeting: John’s Notes
Ms. Stanley Continues to Help The Public Understand the Board Majority’s “Logic” I’m going to highlight what I feel is the most critical interaction of the BOE Meeting after the Educator of the Year Awards. If you recall, last month, the BOE Majority blocked Dr. Foregger and Ms. Khanna’s request to have Dr. Varley explain the decline in rankings (read...
A Few More Snapshots Illustrating The BHPSNJ Decline
Email to the Berkeley Heights BOE on Student Growth and Climate Indicators I found the student growth information and looked at other indicators that might interest you, or at least two of you. The source for the information, again, is the NJ School Performance Reports. As per the NJ DOE: Student growth is a measure of how much students are...
Do They Even Care?
11 emails, 28 pages and No Response…. During the 05/11/2023 Meeting BOE Members Robert Cianculli, Joy Young, Angela Penna, Gale Bradford, and Pamela Stanley appeared confused when Dr. Foregger and Ms. Khanna asked the BOE to direct the Superintendent to discuss the Berkeley Heights Public School Declines and either voted “No” or abstained then throwing the issue into a committee...
Lawyers and Loss of Focus: Factors Likely Connected to the BHPSNJ Decline
My sixth and final email to the BOE exploring reasons connected to the Decline of Berkeley Heights Schools and How to Reverse It Last year the BOE Majority and Administration took strange and unprecedented steps in using District funding to ensure that a newly elected BOE Member and an agenda for change would fail. Before Sai’s term, concerns about the...
Culture, Data and Measurement: Possible Factors Connected to the BHPSNJ Declines
My Fifth Email to the BOE on Possible Causes for the Decline and Suggestions on How to Repair Them A disquieting aspect of the last BOE meeting was how unaware the BOE majority and Superintendent were of the declines in our proficiency. And then, more disturbing, was an attempt to make Dr. Foregger and Ms. Khanna look foolish or silly...
Possible Factors Connected to the Decline of Berkeley Heights Schools: Family Engagement
My Fourth Email to the BOE on Possible Causes for the Decline and Suggestion on How to Repair Them A tremendous body of evidence supports family engagement as necessary for successful outcomes in human services. Many studies have pointed to family engagement as leading to higher academic achievement, pro-social behaviors, and interpersonal effectiveness. In its review of 51 Studies on...
Impact of Reconfiguration & School Transitions on Students and the BHPSNJ Decline
My third email to the Berkeley Heights Board of Education on Possible Reasons Behind the BHPSNJ Decline What should have been a thoughtful and considered process on the reconfiguration of our schools turned into an obsessive, rushed campaign that sought to get FDK approved at all costs with no consideration for the future. There was already a predetermined path with...
What Happens When We Broaden The Dashboard?
Rankings and Scores Compared to 24 other High Schools and 29 other K-8’s The dashboard that we have been using includes six other schools we felt were comparable to Berkeley Heights. Families can know that the picture is perhaps even more concerning than what our dashboard depicts. When we broaden the sample to 25 schools we find that Governor Livingston...
Reassignments, Resignations and the Berkeley Heights Public School District’s Decline
The First of Several Emails I will be sending to the Berkeley Heights Board of Education Exploring the Reasons For the Decline and How to Reverse It Last week I wrote a series of emails to the Berkeley Heights Board of Education and published articles outlining the drop in proficiencies, their relation to our significant drop in the rankings, and...
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