BHCW 01/28/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week, BHCW was privileged to speak with Laura Waters (NJ Education Report) and pick her brain on a host of topics, including the continued impact of COVID on learning, transparency, standardized testing, and the state of American education. A resident provided the community with a detailed accounting of Ms. Penna’s...
Dipti Khanna Is The Leader the Berkeley Heights School District Needs
The following is an email received from Jessica Lesperance, Berkeley Heights Resident, to the County Superintendent Daryl Palmieri in Support of Ms. Khanna for BOE President. Mr. Palmieri’s email address is [email protected] Due to the fact that the Berkeley Heights Board of Education was unable to decide on a Board President or Vice President during their last meeting, it is my understanding...
Laura’s Notes on the 01/18/2024 Town Council Meeting-Part 1
The Town Council meeting, 1/23/24, opened up with the citizens hearing on agenda items only and no residents had comments on agenda. Committee Reports followed and, for the most part, it was business as usual. Items of note are that the Sherman Avenue revitalization project is in the works and the primary purpose of this project is to make the...
Angela Penna is Not An Option for Board President
-Steven Kark I do not typically share my opinions publicly, but I am shocked and amazed that Ms. Penna is even being considered for President. How is anyone following our District even considering her as an option? I think it is essential to review her History on the Board. In 2021, she reversed her original position on FDK and voted for an...
Berkeley Heights BOE Document Drop for October 2023
Executive Session and Committee Meeting Minutes and Notes for October 2023 Notes: Policy Committee: Policy 164 was ostensibly revised to avoid surprises for board members. Guess what has been happening in the 2 meetings so far, and it has nothing to do with board members bringing surprises to the meeting. Only the Personnel Committee seems to have spent an extended...
Dipti Khanna for President of the Berkeley Heights Board of Education
The following is an email received from Geetha Ghai, Berkeley Heights Resident, to the County Superintendent Daryl Palmieri in Support of Ms. Khanna for BOE President. Mr. Palmieri’s email address is [email protected] Dear Mr. Palmieri, I am a long time resident of Berkeley Heights, NJ and my children went through this school system. Recently, I have noticed that there is a...
Three Clear Examples of Why Change is Needed – 01/18/2024 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting
There are three points in time Berkeley Heights and Mountainside families can look at during the last meeting to understand why many in our community have very strong concerns about Ms. Penna becoming BOE President – aside from an apparent conflict of interest involving largely defunct ethics claims against another BOE Member (Ms. Akiri) and several SEC validated claims against...
BHCW 01/21/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter includes a NightWatch episode featuring Liza Viana, Township Administrator, who discusses Sewage, Flooding, Bell Labs, and other topics. Our written content focused primarily on the 01/18/2024 BOE, during which the BOE Deadlocked, Ms. Stanley, Ms. Bradford, and the BOE Attorney played the role of political operative (again), and...
Recommendation for Berkeley Heights Board of Education President – Dipti Khanna
The following is an email received from Daniel Brown, Berkeley Heights Resident and Parent, to the County Superintendent Daryl Palmieri in Support of Ms. Khanna for BOE President. Mr. Palmieri’s email address is [email protected] Dear Mr. Palmieri, I am writing to you as a concerned resident of Berkeley Heights and a dedicated advocate for the educational welfare of our community,...
Minutia Matters- Especially Audits
Why is the BHPSNJ Audit Still Not Available? A recent article on how the Berkeley Heights Superintendent got a raise, in a procedurally incorrect manner and which obscured the action, violating District and State policy along the way, created some much-needed conversation around how the Board of Education operates. I had started looking into audits, based on a different comment...
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