What Happens When We Broaden The Dashboard?
Rankings and Scores Compared to 24 other High Schools and 29 other K-8’s The dashboard that we have been using includes six other schools we felt were comparable to Berkeley Heights. Families can know that the picture is perhaps even more concerning than what our dashboard depicts. When we broaden the sample to 25 schools we find that Governor Livingston...
BHCW 05/21/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights this Week….. Online Newsletter Download PDF Version There are three ways to get BHCW content delivered to your doorstep: (1) Sign-Up for our weekly/bi weekly newsletter. This is the most popular option so far. Subscribers will get email with articles published for the time period in between. (2) Subscribe to our Substack which will deliver articles...
Reassignments, Resignations and the Berkeley Heights Public School District’s Decline
The First of Several Emails I will be sending to the Berkeley Heights Board of Education Exploring the Reasons For the Decline and How to Reverse It Last week I wrote a series of emails to the Berkeley Heights Board of Education and published articles outlining the drop in proficiencies, their relation to our significant drop in the rankings, and...
Varley: Building a Legacy of Division and Decline
The Last Four Years Have Been Tragic for Berkeley Heights No matter what source of data you review, they all have the same theme; Berkeley Heights Public Schools are declining. The reason is simple… We are declining because Melissa Varley has our children and teachers as the District’s lowest priorities. When we get toward the end of the year, it’s...
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...
Two Years Of Shining A Light-2023
What we’ve accomplished this year… Today marks two years since we published our first article. When we launched, our goal was to inform the public about the lack of research behind and violations of laws surrounding the reconfiguration of our District and the disingenuous tactic of the Administration and Board Majority of conflating Kindergarten with throwing children and teachers out...
Five More Snapshots of the BHPSNJ Decline
Comparisons to the other Six Schools in Our Area Based on the Superintendent’s assertion that Covid is one of the primary factors driving our declines, I decided to look at other Districts. I compared movement on proficiency across the Districts that I have been running comparisons over the past month on Budget and Ratings/Rankings. These are top-level, district-wide comparisons. The...
BHCW Newsletter for 05/14/2023
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights this Week….. Online Version PDF Version There are three ways to get BHCW content delivered to your doorstep: (1) Sign-Up for our weekly/bi weekly newsletter. This is the most popular option so far. Subscribers will get email with articles published for the time period in between. (2) Subscribe to our Substack which will deliver articles to...
BHCW Night Watch Episode 16
Declining Proficiencies, Ratings, Assistant Superintendent Stepping Down, OPRA & More….
Can the BOE Goals be Achieved?- Shauna’s Notes on the 05/11/2023 Meeting
The Goals Discussed During the 05/11/2023 Meeting Seem More Like Lip Service After watching the presentation given by NJSBA representative Patty Rees, and the ensuing discussion on BOE goals, it looks like this is going to be an uphill battle, in the best case, and has the potential to be an abysmal failure. Let’s recap. In Ms. Rees’ presentation, she...
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