BHCW 12/03/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter begins with revisiting the Berkeley Heights Board of Education; we review the current BOE Majority’s attempts to gridlock change next year through policy changes. Berkeley Heights residents also discovered that the District’s issues with conducting ethical surveys in obtaining student information continue – this time in connection to...
BHCW 11/27/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s Newsletter looks at two essential items impacting Berkeley Heights residents being passed immediately after an election during lame-duck sessions. On the state level, legislators are looking to overhaul the Open Public Records Act and the Open Public Meetings Act. All early indications are that these changes make both laws...
BHCW 11/20/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… Last week, Berkeley Heights Families learned that the current BOE Majority will continue to prevent them from having access to meetings via Zoom. They voted for a measure that further muted BOE Members while giving more power to the BOE President – all of this points to a majority still obsessed...
BHCW 11/12/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… This week’s newsletter includes a parent exchange with Dr. Varley on class sizes and other issues. This exchange adds evidence to parental concerns about the direction of the District and the value the Superintendent places on feedback from parents outside of her small circle of support. A new board with two...
BHCW 11/05/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… This week’s newsletter includes an interview with both BOE Candidates on Nightwatch, along with two articles from a Town Council Candidate. Shauna provided us with an update and commentary on the 11/02/2023 BOE Meeting on Board goals, and we have endorsements from nine different residents – including John Sincaglia’s endorsement of...
BHCW 10/29/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week….. This week’s newsletter presents even more concerning news about the District’s budget and the lack of due diligence on the part of the Administration and BOE Majority in connection to Shared Service Agreements with the Township. Republican Candidates appeared on NightWatch to answer questions on over-development, township committees, and the tone...
BHCW 10/22/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… This week’s newsletter covers a diversity of topics across the Berkeley Heights Public School District. You will learn the magnitude of the District’s legal spending, some concerning history connected to our current firm, and a policy that seeks to further silence BOE Members from sharing information with the public. A parent shares her concerns about contradictions in the...
BHCW 10/15/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… This week’s newsletter includes articles and community reactions to the news that School Administrators were spreading misinformation about parents with concerns about the High School’s Math issues behind closed doors to other parents with BOE Members present. You will also read updates on the election policy we’ve been discussing and information...
BHCW 10/08/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… This week’s newsletter contains responses from Town Council Candidates on matters connected to transparency, access, and inclusion while BOE Candidates tackled questions about the District’s busing controversy. We talk about the money that the Law Firm of Cleary, Giacobbe, Alfieri, and Jacobs is raking in as the BOE Majority continues to...
BHCW 10/01/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week… The BOE Majority voted to change election policies, with the final vote slated for October – one month before the election. This week, the reasons for these changes appeared clear to BOE Candidates who wrote to the Council requesting that an unconstitutional ordinance be revoked. The Majority also silenced a BOE...
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