What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week -01/27/2024
Affordable Housing Back on the Radar, Report on Flood Resilience, Telehealth Access Lands in NJ Supreme Court and Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence issued for NJ Attorneys Affordable Housing Overhaul Advances NJ Monitor Another bill would allow affordable housing projects backed by state or local affordable housing trust funds to make payments in lieu of taxes. That bill drew some concern...
NightWatch Episode 26: Laura Waters of NJ Education Report
Laura Waters of NJ Education Report joins us for an incredibly informative episode of NightWatch. We talk about the impact of COVID on education, changes to NJ Standardized Testing, Transparency, the state of American Education, and more. See All Night Watch Episodes
Berkeley Heights BOE Document Drop for October 2023
Executive Session and Committee Meeting Minutes and Notes for October 2023 Notes: Policy Committee: Policy 164 was ostensibly revised to avoid surprises for board members. Guess what has been happening in the 2 meetings so far, and it has nothing to do with board members bringing surprises to the meeting. Only the Personnel Committee seems to have spent an extended...
Firm of Cleary, Giacobbe, Alfieri, & Jacobs Spends 20 Minutes Trying to Protect their Jobs
Revisiting the 01/04/2024 Berkeley Height Board of Education Reorganization Meeting Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week -01/20/2024
Charter School Get a Boost, State Saves Big on Bonded Debt, NJ Consumers Get More Protection, Lawmakers Get a Raise, Students Get Another Day Off, The Feds are Lame Landmark Legislation for Charter Schools From NJ Education Report The bill is the first-ever funding framework for New Jersey’s public charter schools since their inception 26 years ago, and will...
Legal Spending and Searchable Attachments for 01/18/2024 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting
Tomorrow, the BOE will vote on whether to approve another ~$7,000 to the law firm of Cleary Giacobbe Alfieri Jacobs, LLC; total legal spending between four firms comes to ~$11,000 – based on our review. The agenda includes other legal costs as mentioned in yesterday’s article . There is a $1500 settlement on an OPRA case and a $44,000 settlement for some other matter that isn’t clear...
Night Watch Episode 25: The Return of Liza Viana- Berkeley Heights Township Administrator
Township Administrator Liza Viana comes back to update us on the Sewage Plant, progress on flooding concerns, the Sherman Ave project, Bell Labs, Affordable Housing, and More. See All Night Watch Episodes
BHCW 01/14/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkley Heights This Week…. This week, residents learned of a controversial and inaccurate email from Ms. Bradford that invoked volunteer organizations and spun Ms. Khanna’s ability to hold a job as a negative in her attempt to convince people to write to the County Superintendent to support Angela Penna. BHCW discovered Dr. Varley received a...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week -01/13/2024
Ambitious Week for Murphy on Education, Immigration, Mental Health and More…. Education From NJ Education Report: “While the work of cementing important changes and implementing them on the ground has just begun, Governor Murphy’s proposed initiatives reflect those for which our coalition has long advocated, such as investment in teacher training, literacy assessments of students, and collaboration with local universities...
BHCW Top Ten Videos of 2023
…and 2022. While less popular than our print media, we take pride and have fun on our YouTube channel. We still managed to get 14k views and about 1k hours of watch time in 2023, so no, we aren’t going to be famous anytime soon. With that said, we’d still like to present our Top Ten for 2023. Immediately after,...
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