Chatham, Millburn, and New Providence Schools Lead on NJGPA ….others Struggle
Recent NJGPA Results Highlight Gaps Between Top-Tier Districts and Those Falling Behind –Written by an Educator in our District At the July 24th, 2025 New Providence Board of Education meeting, the district presented their assessment report that included New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment (NJGPA) results from spring 2024. High school students sit for the separate English Language Arts (ELA) and...
BHPSNJ Referendum Breakdown…. Soft Costs, Maintenance, and Inflation Risks?
The Berkeley Heights Board of Education has submitted a $50.3 million pre-referendum budget estimate to the New Jersey Department of Education for review. We requested this information through OPRA which led to another display of willful ignorance and petty bureaucratic power plays — but that’s for another article. One of the documents received was a Scope/Budget Analysis of what the...
Latest OPRA Roundup: What We Learned (and Didn’t) from the Berkeley Heights School District
From time to time, NJ 21st requests all OPRAs sent to the Berkeley Heights School District. In the latest report there were four requests. (Sort of.) One OPRA request asked for all bids and/or bid tally for the Mountain Park drainage project from June 14, 2022. In response, the District provided the one bid that had been received, by GM...
BHPSNJ District Acknowledges GPA Concerns, Leaves Students Vulnerable to College Recalculation
Closed Door Presentation obtained through OPRA Confirms GPA Concerns — But Offers No Solution For months, parents in Berkeley Heights have raised concerns that Governor Livingston High School’s GPA system might be quietly putting students at a disadvantage when applying to college. The debate centers on how colleges recalculate GPAs, and whether the way Berkeley Heights weights and scales grades...
Berkeley Heights Administration Stuffs Referendum, Contracts, and Big Decisions Into One Quiet Meeting — Again
John’s Notes on the 06/26/2025 BHPSNJ BOE Agenda Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article indicated that the BA Salary was prorated – that was incorrect. The salary listed is the annual salary. On June 26th, the Berkeley Heights Board of Education is set to hold one of its most packed — and least transparent — meetings of the...
Berkeley Heights Public School Budget Data Still Withheld, Police Invoices Missing
Last week, I published No Names, No Budgets: Transparency Continues to Erode Under Feltre, documenting how Berkeley Heights Public Schools continues to obstruct public records requests. Since then, the district has finally provided a document — but what they released makes the problem even clearer. The file they produced covers a small subset of the full $63 million 2025–26 budget...
Parent Expresses Concerns About BHPSNJ Superintendent’s Social Media Post
The following is an email provided to BHCW from Berkeley Heights Resident and Parent Ekin Najarian to Dr. Varley and the Berkeley Heights Board of Education. Dr. Varley / Whitfield: Just as your approval for your extended leave before your resignation was approved, you posted a unique image and caption on your Facebook page which was shared with me. I...
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