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...
10/12/2023 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting – Laura’s Notes
The opinions, comments and questions below are my own, they are not on behalf of or a reflection of any community or organization in which I am a member. I did not watch the entire 10/12 Board meeting. But, I watched enough to pose the questions below to the Board of Education. My main takeaways from the meeting, in which...
John’s Notes on the 10/12/2023 BOE Meeting – “Misinformation” Edition
There’s a lot here to unpack and I am not going to get to it all in one article. The first thing that struck me was Ms. Bradford’s comments about District Administrators talking about parents spreading misinformation about Building Thinking Classroom and Dr. Giordano’s response to my comments that parents made it seem that BTC was being applied to the...
Laura’s Notes on the 10/12/2023 BOE Agenda
The BOE Majority is Starting to Pour Concrete into the Pipes Before a New Board Takes Office ADMINISTRATION A: DISTRICT BYLAWS/POLICIES/REGULATIONS – FIRST READING How much of these policy changes are about the kids? My takeaway is that these policy changes are about self-preservation and keeping the power in the current BOE majority. Any organization that seeks to inhibit the...
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...
Berkeley Heights BOE Committee Meeting Minutes for August 2023
Below are the Board Committee Meeting Minutes BHCW received for August through an OPRA request. Committee meetings are different than closed sessions – what is discussed during these meetings can very well be addressed by the Board in public meetings. The argument against doing so by one BOE member has been that it would prevent the BOE from accomplishing as...
Laura’s Notes from the 09/14/2023 BOE Meeting
The BOE Majority and Attorney are now playing Thought Police Superintendent’s Report As we wrote on the night of the meeting, the Data Presentation did not present on the declines from the prior testing year to this year, and the comparisons are being made to State averages, not comparable schools. And, as John wrote in a prior article, the lack...
Questions to The BOE Candidates – Question 1
First in a Series of Questions to the 2023 Berkeley Heights, NJ BOE Candidates Two Candidates Running for Two Seats Please provide residents with your qualifications for the BOE (education, experience) and how you feel this background will benefit our community on the BOE. Please provide (at least) two very specific policy positions you plan to introduce or support during...
Educator of the Year with Ten Years in the District Resigning
The District Bleed Continues…. Several credible sources within the District have confirmed another terrible loss for our School Community, specifically for our Early Childhood Center. Recent educator of the year Frank Fabiano, has reportedly resigned from BHPS to take another position. Fabiano spent his ten years at Mary Kay McMillin working with all of our students, but his expertise and...
BOE Committee Meeting Minutes – 05/2023 and 06/2023
Based on experience, residents should take the accuracy of these minutes with a large grain of salt.….multiple large salt chunks. Regardless, these are still useful for the public to see. PDF of Minutes for 05/2023 PDF Minutes for 06/2023 This Article Made Possible by OPRA…Learn How To Protect This Important Law!
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