Author: NJ 21st Team

More Questions on The Berkeley Heights Public School Busing Controversy

Written by a Berkeley Heights Community Member and BHPSNJ Parent Volunteer The long awaited transportation presentation was provided to the public and the Board at the 2/26/24 meeting. Inconsistencies with our current transportation program were the key takeaway. Those inconsistencies mostly surrounded bussing routes and highlighted a need for an updated software program to tackle most issues surrounding the current...
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Proposed N.J. School Aid Dollars Released for 2024-25- Where We Are and Some Background

Berkeley Heights receives slightly lower amount of state aid -Written by an Educator in The Community Following the Governor’s budget address with a proposed increase of more than $901 million for public schools, Berkeley Heights Public Schools is receiving slightly lower proposed state aid in the 2024-25 school year than this current 2023-24 school year. Data for all districts can...
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BHCW 03/03/2024 Newsletter

What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. The week’s newsletter thoroughly analyzes Gale Bradford’s first meeting as BOE President and yet another crammed agenda. Residents will learn how Ms. Bradford’s autocratic and probably illegal method of running a meeting collided with three substantial presentations crammed in one meeting, led to a “by design” inability on the part of...
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Team Notes on the 02/26/2024 BHPSNJ Audit Presentation – Big Questions Get Little Time and Explanation

​After the community discovered that the District submitted the Audit without a public presentation and BOE awareness, we finally had a presentation on the Audit.   Gale Bradford ensured the process was rushed, through the improper use of her position as president – BOE Members only had 16 minutes to ask about a $65 Million Spend. This is quite funny when you consider that at...
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BHCW 02/25/2024 Newsletter

What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter begins with our story on a Berkeley Heights resident who took the NJ Department of Education to court on an OPRA case concerning the Berkeley Heights Public School bussing controversy and won. We then move on to the 02/26/2024 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting Agenda and cover concerns on...
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Legal Spending and Searchable Attachments for 02/26/2024 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting

The Current Board Set to Vote On Huge Legal Tab from Prior Board Our community continues to pay for the consequences of the prior Board’s decisions. This month’s legal bills total $28,320, of which the “legal firm” (lol) of Cleary, Giacobbe, Alfieri, and Jacobs will receive $23,727. We have spent about $2,000 more compared to Feb and Jan of 2023,...
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