Designed To Fail: Last Year’s BOE Majority Created Conditions For Chaos
Berkeley Heights Residents should pay close attention to this Thursday’s BOE Re-Org Meeting Yesterday, Laura wrote about the BOE Agenda and pointed out some concerning facts surrounding the differences between this year’s and last year’s reorganization meeting. The most notable changes, in my opinion, were the removal of appointments and new business. The Board Attorney has been a significant sticking...
How the Number of Berkeley Heights BOE Meetings Compare with Neighboring Districts
Berkeley Heights is in the middle of the pack with an average number of Board of Education meetings over three years. -Written By An Educator In the Community Earlier this week, Berkeley Heights Public Schools posted their Board of Education (BOE) agenda for the reorganization meeting on Thursday, January 4th. Including this reorganization meeting, there will be at least 15...
More Questions Remain on the BHPSNJ Improper Transportation Survey
At the last meeting, Mr. Juskiewicz said there was no board correspondence since the previous meeting. I pointed out the exchange regarding the transportation survey. He apologized for the oversight. I wanted to share this exchange as I think it highlights the administration’s lack of attention to detail when it comes to collecting data from our kids and the inability...
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...
Shauna’s Notes on the 12/14/2023 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting
Gaslighting On the RFP, More Power to the President, Still No Answers on Legal Spending and Board Correspondence Now Requires Gate Keeping The Superintendent’s Report led immediately to the Resolution and Congratulations to the GL Girls Volleyball Team on their second sectional state championship! Recognition was also given to Joy Young and Robert Cianciulli for their service as board members,...
Board Games: Not What We Had on our Holiday Wish List
Questions surround recent board decisions and superintendent recommendations… The Berkeley Heights BOE may be taking advantage of having a new Business Administrator in place, who has not yet had time to review past BOE actions, or they may merely be doing what they do, which is ignoring any and all policy, law, guidance and public comment with which they disagree....
12/14/2023 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting Agenda: Laura’s Notes
Approve Board Goals The BOE will; 1. Improve planning and committee structure; 2. Work to improve communication, both internally and externally; 3. Evaluate the CSA (Chief School Administrator) in a timely manner*; 4. Promote all district goals by providing the support and resources necessary to achieve the goals; 5. Develop and implement a plan for continuous Board Professional Development with...
Suspect RFP’s and Lame Duck Sessions
Resident Comments During the 12/07/2023 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting Last night’s meeting ended with the BOE not taking any action in a meeting that could have created more legal issues for the District. Yesterday, we published an email from a parent citing concerns about the District’s RFP for an Architect that, if acted on with a decision, would have potentially led...
Is the BOE Majority Setting the District Up for Another Violation at Tonight’s Special Meeting?
Another Questionable Special Meeting And Potential Violation Shauna WIlliams sent the following email in connection to the purpose of tonight’s BOE Meeting – Interviewing Architects- to the Board of Education. Laws are in place to ensure the public is fully aware of District decisions that impact students and to protect the dollars taxpayers invest to educate them. It was not...
What It’s Like to Ask For Basic Documents from the Berkeley Heights School District
A recent example Illustrating why OPRA Laws Cannot be Weakened I am posting this conversation to illustrate how the District responds to basic requests for information. My email starts with a request I have made regularly after every BOE Meeting over the past few months. Here is my original email: Ms. Bradford forwarded the email to Mr. Cianculli (I...
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