If Given the Choice, Would Private Schools Really Be A Better Deal for Berkeley Heights?
Given the high per-pupil cost of Berkeley Heights Public Schools (BHPSNJ) and ongoing discussions about declining enrollment despite rising expenses, I wanted to end the 2025 Budget series by seeing how BHPSNJ stacks up against private schools in terms of cost. I selected five private K-8 schools and five private high schools to compare their tuition costs with BHPSNJ’s reported...
7- District Budget Comparisons – All The Snaphots 2025
7- District Budget Comparisons – All The Snaphots 2025 Berkeley Heights, Chatham, Madison, Millburn, New Providence, Summit & Westfield Articles About these Charts Can Be Found Here Subscribe to NJ21st For Free
Solution to GLHS GPA Issue Potentially Impacting College Admissions
As a result of concerns and questions our community had in connection to our article on Governor Livingston/College GPA Conversion, Dan created a tool that demonstrates: How your GLHS Student’s Grades could look like to colleges today How Students from other High Schools with Similar Grades would Look How your Students Grades would Look under Dan’s 4- point Scale that...
A Closer Look at Proficiency on the NJ 7-City Dashboard
Third contribution in a series to NJ Education Report on seven urban districts in NJ: A Closer Look at Proficiency on the NJ 7-City Dashboard
2019-2023 Contributions to NJ Party & Political Action Committees by County
Home Reports Videos Newsletters About Hamburger Toggle Menu The tables below showcase flashcards summarizing contribution data to Political Action Committees (PACs), from 2019 through 2023 across New Jersey counties, based on NJ ELEC data. Notably, some non-individual donations list PO Boxes or even residential addresses, ultimately funneling contributions into two primary PACs in each county. A folder with a spreadsheet...
2022-2023 7-District Dashboard District Wide Comparisons- Better But Not Good Enough
Background In 2022, BHCW, residents and three BOE Members (Khanna, Joly, Akiri) raised concerns about 2018-2019 Berkeley Heights Math, Science, and ELA proficiencies. In 2023, BHCW published extensively on the 2021-2022 results, demonstrating significant drops in all three areas. During this time, BHCW developed a 7-district dashboard of comparable schools that had Berkeley Heights last in ELA, Math, and Science...
2022-2023 7-District Dashboard Budget Resource – Updated
How Did the Berkeley Heights Public School District use it’s dollars compared to 6 other Districts… The ACFR is a document that School Districts submit to the state accounting for revenues and expenditures. As the budget process in our District (and most, if not all, surrounding Districts) , approaches, we converted the data in these documents into a spreadsheet for...
BHPSNJ 2024 Budget Prep Part 2: ACFR 7-District Dashboard
In order to further inform the public in preparation for the 2024 Berkeley Heights Public School District Budget Discussions, we created a spread sheet comparing all seven districts on the dashboard on areas within the ACFR. The ACFR is a document that Districts submit to the state with information on enrollment, revenue and spending in various areas and other information....
Putting It All Together – Rankings, Ratings, Proficiency and Budget
Exploring a connection between proficiency, rankings and budget… I emailed the Berkeley Heights Board of Education and Superintendent the following summary (excuse typos): I would like to share with you the ratings and rankings themselves along with the Budget. I’ve written about this before and I’m pretty certain you’ve read what I’ve written, however, it didn’t seem like you had any recollection of...
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