John’s Notes on Tonight’s Berkeley Heights Town Council Agenda
Correction Correction: This article implies that there was an intra-year municipal salary increase within 2025. In fact, the salary increases...
Destiny by Design: The NJSBA and BHPSNJ’s “3-D” Process of Transforming Community Input into Cringe Edu-Slop
Editorial The Berkeley Heights Public School District’s Destiny by Design (God, that makes me laugh every time I read it)...
The Week at NJ21st: Dismantling Education Data, Track on School Spending, Environmental Battle Looming and BHPSNJ Security Costs Spiraling…
The biggest story this week is a bill that seeks to remove the NJ High School Graduation Proficiency Exam. A bill sponsored...
What the 7-District ACFR Dashboard Shows About School Costs (Part 1)
This is the first in a series intended to help families better understand how to hold their School District spending...
Encumbrances, Transfers and Missing Metrics: District Responds to the $100K Security Budget Discrepancy
After my article this morning on the $100k gap between the security budget presented to the public last spring and...
Final 2025 Agenda: BHPSNJ BOE to Approve Audit Showing $130K Security Surge, Following Last Year’s Control Failures
The Berkeley Heights BOE will meet tomorrow (Thursday 12/11/2025) for its last meeting of the year. This will also be...
A4121 Passes Assembly as Lawmakers Move to Eliminate the NJGPA
Adding to a pile of lame-duck high impact bills, A4121- which would eliminate the NJGPA (high school graduation proficiency test)...
REAL Could Redraw NJ’s Flood Map and Its Development Future
REAL (Resilient Environments and Landscapes) is the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) effort to update the state’s flood, coastal, wetlands...
The Justice System
The ninth article in an ongoing series intended to help NJ residents, especially students, understand their local and state government....
The Week at NJ21st: Watch Dogs, Education Data, Referendum and Chickens…yes Chickens
NJ OSC has become the state’s most productive watchdog since Kevin Walsh took the helm and we began this week...