BHCW 02/11/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter features an interview with Mayor Angie Devanny that includes frank discussions with BHCW on the CMS Field, All-Inclusive Play Ground, and the recently passed Land Use Ordinance, among other items. We were proud to create and publish the first-ever 7-District Dashboard ACFR Budget spreadsheet that provides the public...
BHCW 02/04/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts with a primer on the 2024 Budget that provides a few snap-shots of the 2022-2023 ACFR. Residents and parents are strongly encouraged to read the attachments to this first in a series leading up to the 2024 BHPSNJ Budget process. We then move to the strange tandem...
BHCW 01/28/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week, BHCW was privileged to speak with Laura Waters (NJ Education Report) and pick her brain on a host of topics, including the continued impact of COVID on learning, transparency, standardized testing, and the state of American education. A resident provided the community with a detailed accounting of Ms. Penna’s...
BHCW 01/21/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter includes a NightWatch episode featuring Liza Viana, Township Administrator, who discusses Sewage, Flooding, Bell Labs, and other topics. Our written content focused primarily on the 01/18/2024 BOE, during which the BOE Deadlocked, Ms. Stanley, Ms. Bradford, and the BOE Attorney played the role of political operative (again), and...
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...
BHCW 01/07/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter walks residents – step by step- through how the BHPSNJ Administration and Penna Bloc conspired to create one of the most chaotic reorganization meetings this District has ever experienced. From policies put in place last year during the lame-duck session to an incomplete and potentially illegal meeting agenda...
BHCW 12/31/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… This week’s newsletter includes an update on the battle to save OPRA and OPMA. We share an email to legislators thanking them for pausing on reform with suggestions on improving both laws and how these improvements would benefit our School District. An educator in our community provided an analysis involving the...
BHCW 12/24/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… This week’s newsletter includes coverage of the Town Council’s passage of the Municipal Land Use Ordinance – probably one of the most significant actions by this Council, this year through a process many residents felt was rushed and poorly timed during a lame-duck session. We learned about the District’s disregard for...
BHCW 12/17/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… This week’s newsletter starts with a snapshot of raw data on this year’s NJSLA, which became available this week. The results are not great – we are still below where we were before Dr. Varley took over as superintendent. It then moves to our coverage of the 12/14/2023 BOE meeting, where...
BHCW 12/10/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… This week, BHCW informed residents of where Mayor Devanney stood in relation to OPRA and shared an email in which she encouraged state legislators to protect critical aspects of this vital law. BHCW exposed a highly suspect RFP and warned the BOE and Community of the potential for more violations on...
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