Author: NJ 21st Team

This week’s newsletter begins with the Berkeley Heights Public Schools (BHPSNJ) presentation on SAT and ACT scores, highlighting significant contradictions with state-reported data. While the new Superintendent has promised transparency and improvements, familiar issues persist: delayed and obstructed access to budget details, refusal to fund critical services such as tutoring, continued prioritization of the Mayor’s favored projects and security expenditures,...

This week’s newsletter opens with an in-depth look at New Jersey’s special education data, comparing suburban and city districts to expose deep-rooted disparities and systemic inequities in educational outcomes. We then turn to the April 8th Berkeley Heights Town Council meeting, where the Township budget quietly passed with little scrutiny. Inside, you’ll find a detailed breakdown—plus explosive remarks from former...

This week’s newsletter is packed with new insights from 2024.We kick things off with our deep dive into the recently released NJ DOE School Performance Reports. This includes our brand-new 7-District Comparison Dashboard, an Interactive School Performance Explorer, and a comprehensive review of every school in the Berkeley Heights Public School District (BHPSNJ). Next, we unveil a major release: a...

What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. This week’s newsletter begins where the 03/18/2025 BHPSNJ Budget Meeting should have: the actual BHPSNJ budget. Instead, that meeting centered on a different topic—a turf field. Despite repeated claims of urgency, the project won’t be up for a vote until 03/25/2025—one full week after the budget meeting that...