Amendments to Recreation and Terrace II Ordinance – But Is It Enough?
For Rec Ordinance the changes appear to be as follows: Two-positions removed and replaced it with one position, Recreation Director...
New Jersey’s Budget Deadline Week: The Bills, The Process and What to Watch
New Jersey’s Budget Deadline Week: The Bills, The Process and What to Watch by nj21st.com John Migueis Read on Substack...
John’s Notes: The Rest of the June 30 Berkeley Heights Summer Monstrosity
The two most prominent items on this agenda- Recreation Commission Dissolution and Terrace II re-development are covered in other articles...
This Week at NJ21st: Retaliation, PILOTs and the Fight for Transparency from Trenton to Randolph
Another full week at the 21st and Berkeley Heights remains the hot spot, but as always we’re going to start...
The Fine Print: How the ‘Terrace II’ Contract Sets Up a School-Exempt PILOT (Berkeley Heights)
Based on the agreement attached to the Township agenda packet for the 06/30/2026 meeting, the Terrace project may end up...
NJDOE Gave Us a 749-Page Adaptive Testing Proposal. It Still Doesn’t Prove the System Works.
So we are approaching our year-long quest to get data from the NJ DOE on evidence that the new adaptive...
The 06/25/2026 Berkeley Heights BOE Agenda – A Strategic Plan with No Academic Metrics and a Policy Change with Big Privacy Concerns
Strategic Plan The Superintendent will present the Strategic Plan for the District, which is laid out in 3 goals: Whole...
Hidden MOUs, Missing Contracts: Transparency Concerns Loom Over New Providence BOE’s $7M Year-End Agenda
New Providence BOE Agenda Includes $6.9M Bill List, Lunch Prices, Special Education Placements, Software Renewals and Policy Updates The New...
Management Enhancement Grant and OLP Shared Service Agreement on Tonight’s New Providence Agenda
We’re dealing with a lighter agenda than we saw last meeting although there are 17 consent agenda items, which means...
Return to the Paradox: New Jersey’s Student Debt is Getting Heavier
Our report last year on NJ student loans showed that while the state did not have as many borrowers as...