BHCW 06/04/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week….. Online Newsletter 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...
06/05/2023 BOE Agenda : Laura’s Notes
Renewals and Big Salaries for the Usual Crew Top the List Dr. Greer, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, and Student Achievement, is having his contract renewed at an annual salary of $164,800. Ms. Kot, Business Administrator and Board Secretary – and advocate against OPRA, is having her contract renewed at an annual salary of $177,366. Administrators salaries are being approved. ...
The Berkeley Heights BOE Lawyer Addiction
How Much Money is Being Taken Away from our Classrooms? The skeptics out there, and those who agree with Ms. Stanley that there is nothing alarming about the districts legal bills, might be interested to understand the role a district/board attorney serves. It is also worth noting that each call, each email or text incurs a fee. So when items...
A Few More Snapshots Illustrating The BHPSNJ Decline
Email to the Berkeley Heights BOE on Student Growth and Climate Indicators I found the student growth information and looked at other indicators that might interest you, or at least two of you. The source for the information, again, is the NJ School Performance Reports. As per the NJ DOE: Student growth is a measure of how much students are...
Is it Time for Our Superintendent to Start Paying Attention?
Or would that make things worse? Sometimes the reactions, by a collective group of individuals, to a simple request can be far more enlightening than was actually asked. At the last Board meeting Dr. Foregger, supported by Ms. Khanna, made a motion to have the Superintendent present a report on the factors contributing to the district’s decline in performance. This...
No One Rises to Low Expectations
Is it time for more families to start paying attention and finally get involved? The title of this article is a quote from author Les Brown, born Leslie Calvin Brown on February 17, 1945, in Miami, Florida. After giving birth to Brown and his twin brother, Wes, on the floor of an abandoned building, Brown’s biological mother gave her sons...
Do They Even Care?
11 emails, 28 pages and No Response…. During the 05/11/2023 Meeting BOE Members Robert Cianculli, Joy Young, Angela Penna, Gale Bradford, and Pamela Stanley appeared confused when Dr. Foregger and Ms. Khanna asked the BOE to direct the Superintendent to discuss the Berkeley Heights Public School Declines and either voted “No” or abstained then throwing the issue into a committee...
BHCW 05/28/2023 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...
2023 Annual Community Evaluation of the BHPSNJ Superintendent
We are pleased to announce the first Annual Community Evaluation of the Superintendent. The link to the evaluation below is open to Berkeley Heights Residents, Mountainside Residents, and BHPSNJ Staff. Name, Township of Residence, and email addresses are required to participate– however, BHCW will not share this information with anyone. The reason for collecting this information is to make spamming the...
Lawyers and Loss of Focus: Factors Likely Connected to the BHPSNJ Decline
My sixth and final email to the BOE exploring reasons connected to the Decline of Berkeley Heights Schools and How to Reverse It Last year the BOE Majority and Administration took strange and unprecedented steps in using District funding to ensure that a newly elected BOE Member and an agenda for change would fail. Before Sai’s term, concerns about the...
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