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Ratings, Rankings and Dollars

Further Evidence that Berkeley Heights Needs to Re-Evaluate the Direction the District is Going A community member provided us with a table containing the following information: ” all districts are included within an approximate 10-mile radius of Berkeley Heights, excluding North Plainfield, Plainfield, and South Plainfield. Data takes the average of all school buildings in each public school district that...
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Round Four: Affordable Housing (AH)

There’s one bill going through the NJ senate worth watching regarding affordable housing: a bill that stalls Round Four until 2028. The best way to summarize how we got to where we are is nicely written by Colleen O’Dea here at NJSpotLightNews.  But for a brief context, the Coalition of Affordable Housing (COAH) was established in 1985 to direct municipalities to...
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The Collaborative Model – Part Two

Continuing with Kotter’s Model of Change, let’s take a look at step six: Ensure Short-Term Wins. Below is the list descriptors for this step. Did any of these steps happen? Did we even have short-term goals outlined? Possibly, but that middle step – make progress visible – was an abject failure. We were handed a directive and expected to embrace...
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BHCW 04/16/2023 NEWSLETTER

What’s Important to know about Berkeley Heights, NJ 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...
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Nj Education Report PublisheS New Information ON BHPSNJ BudGet…..And It Doesn’t Look Good

NJED Report Op-ed from BHCW Contributor Uncovers a Potentially Significant Problem on Medical Benefits in the BHPSNJ Budget NJ Education Report published an Op-Ed from Sai Akiri alleging significant distortions in how the Budget is being presented to the Public. The article states the District is inflating the cost of Medical Benefits and that dollars budgeted for Medical Benefits are...
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