Update on Columbia Middle School Tiger
-Helen Gabara The time of year has come around at CMS for the yearbook club to start work on the yearbook. The annual Art contest to design a tiger for the cover of the yearbook was brought up. There still appears to be interest. Unfortunately, the supervisor of the yearbook had to inform the students, they cannot hold the contest,...
Question to BOE Candidates #2: Budget Priorities
NJ21st sent our second question to the BOE Candidates today with responses due on 10/04/2024: The Board, with a new majority, took significant steps this year in opening up the budget process to the community. Tentative budgets were made available without the need to use OPRA, and additional public meetings connected to the Budget process were made available before the Board’s...
Is County Clerk Joanne Rajoppi Up to the Same Old Tricks?
Joanne Rajoppi should be a familiar name to Berkeley Heights Residents. She was responsible for the disastrous ballot back in 2022 that cost Natasha and Sai the election that year. She’s also been on the wrong end of lawsuits and controversies connected to ballot issues before and after 2022. If you were to go to the Union County Election page...
NJ 21st Night Watch Episode 30: BOE Elections, Math, Security & More
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Laura’s Notes on the 09/12/2024 BOE Meeting
District Goals, Cell Phone Policy, Inaccurate TAP-Into Article, Visitor Scans, Superintendent Drama & More Mr. Nixon provided a presentation on District Goals. I will summarize, but watch the presentation for yourself, please – I am not going to do it much justice here: Goal #1 Student Achievement in grades 6-12 with a strong emphasis on improving the Math program. Goal...
No, BHPS Does Not Need An Assistant Superintendent…
But it should be Mrs. Nardi if we insist on having one. In reality, we don’t need an assistant Superintendent. But if we are to hire people for these positions, the logical choice would be to select an internal candidate. Someone who knows our District inside out, wants to be here (for the right reasons) and has proven successful. For...
BOE Representative Natasha Joly Responds to Inaccurate TapInto Article
Statement from BOE Representative Natasha Joly The recent article in TapInto regarding unpaid bills by the Berkeley Heights Board of Education has a number of inaccuracies. In the subtext of the title, it states that, “Board of Education Faces Over $80,000 in Unpaid Bills”. Further in the article it states, “At the Board’s August 15 meeting, it was reported that...
Regarding TapInto’s Coverage of “Unpaid Bills”
Statement from BOE Representative Sai Akiri In a recent article by a for-profit information outlet, Ms. Bradford commented on some outstanding bills. This information was inaccurate, related to Board Business, and did not have the consent of the full Board of Education. Additionally, TapInto did not reach out to me or other BOE Members for their perspective. Some of the...
My Thoughts on NJ Department of Education Changes to District Evaluations
Statement from BOE Representative Dr. Thomas Foregger On September 4 the New Jersey State Board of Education proposed changes to the way the instruction and program component of the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC) score is computed. A school needs to score 80 points in each component of the NJQSAC in order to be deemed a high performing...
Laura’s Notes on the 08/15/2024 BOE Meeting
Following a near 2-hour executive session the meeting opened up with a senior class representative making a formal request to the Board for Open Campus for seniors at Governor Livingston High School. Mr. Nixon then conducted his Superintendents report with an update on the 2024 NJ GPA (Graduation Proficiency Assessment) scores. The majority of our students are “graduation ready” with...
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