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...
2024-2025 7-District Dashboard – A Preliminary Look at Next Year’s School Performance Reports
Every year we provide a preliminary look at what the April School Performance reports will look like based on the...
Montgomery’s 30-Year Extension Plan Leaves Long-Time Affordable Homeowners Without the Equity They Expected
Within the context of NJ’s affordable housing Universe (generally speaking )- a deed restriction is a promise that follows the...
What Montclair’s Cancelled Referendum and New Jersey Case Law Suggest for Berkeley Heights and Other Districts
When Montclair’s school referendum was cancelled by judicial ruling today the immediate cause was simple- the ballot questions were not...
More Than 70 Groups Sign Letter Opposing S4924
nj21st is happy to join more than 70 organizations, representing a broad coalition of good-government, civil rights, community and advocacy...