Putting It All Together – Rankings, Ratings, Proficiency and Budget
Exploring a connection between proficiency, rankings and budget… I emailed the Berkeley Heights Board of Education and Superintendent the following summary (excuse typos): I would like to share with you the ratings and rankings themselves along with the Budget. I’ve written about this before and I’m pretty certain you’ve read what I’ve written, however, it didn’t seem like you had any recollection of...
What About The Mountainside Kids?
Comparison of Mountainside, Berkeley Heights and what Happens At Governor Livingston…. I decided to look at Mountainside as their residents have a vested interest in a Superintendent’s report concerning Governor Livingston. Given the different k-8 configurations between Berkeley Heights and Mountainside, in the interest of time, I decided to average out the Berkeley Heights numbers except for Science and...
Five More Snapshots of the BHPSNJ Decline
Comparisons to the other Six Schools in Our Area Based on the Superintendent’s assertion that Covid is one of the primary factors driving our declines, I decided to look at other Districts. I compared movement on proficiency across the Districts that I have been running comparisons over the past month on Budget and Ratings/Rankings. These are top-level, district-wide comparisons. The...
The Story of The BHPSNJ Decline in 5 Photos
Follow up to the 05/11/2023 BOE Meeting and Request by Dr. Foregger and Ms. Khanna that the Superintendent Address the Public’s Concerns Since the BOE Meeting on 05/11/2023, I mailed the BOE Several times on the data that appears to be driving the decline in ratings and rankings. If you recall, I emailed Dr. Varley last year with concerns about...
Follow Up to Ratings and Rankings From the 05/11/2023 Meeting – John’s Notes Part II, The Revenge
Because I just can’t let this shit go…. While I addressed many of Dr. Varley’s narratives surrounding our rankings decline based on a data set that she then claimed not to be aware of, I think it’s essential for the public to be aware of the extent of the BOE’s ignorance in this area. If you recall last year, Dr....
05/11/2023 BOE Meeting-Johns Notes
BOE Majority Refuses to Have Dr. Varley Explain our Rankings and Ratings Slide Dr. Foregger motioned to have Dr. Varley explain the decline in ratings and rankings, and Ms. Khanna seconded the motion. This has been discussed and parsed out for weeks by this site leading up to this meeting. The rest of the Board either abstained or voted no,...
BHPSNJ Creating More Road blocks to Public Information?
More evidence that the OPRA Custodian Position is more of a barrier than a help… Update @ 5:47: Someone asked this question and now I cant see it…”what is a false binary?” A false binary is when a person defines the argument according to a limited reality – as if only two things are possible…he was responding to my initial...
Berkeley Heights Public School Rating & Ranking Drop- Closer Looks
It’s Not Just GL- The Youngest Learners in the Data Set Are Far Behind Surrounding Schools This week, the community member who has been looking through the rankings and ratings that we tied into the budget data took a closer look at ratings and rankings. We posted on one part of that analysis this week – demonstrating that Governor Livingston...
The Berkeley Height Public School Survey Problem
And what we can do to fix it. Surveys are an essential tool that systems can use to gather vital information to know more about the people they are serving to better meet needs and determine whether what they are doing now is effective. Asking for information about age, ethnicity, culture, sexuality, religion, religiosity, and habits are common practices and...
Help A Teacher Out
Please consider writing to the Berkeley Heights BOE requesting that they change the date of the Educator of the Year awards ceremony currently scheduled for 06/05/2023. Having it on this date would require teachers and their loved ones to come to Berkeley Heights on their day off. Here is a graph explaining why this is a problem: Here is the...
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