Parent Concerns About Budget, Survey and OPRA Violations
-Karin Sicoli Our Berkeley Heights BOE’s first job is to “protect the herd” not to be mistaken for protecting: students, teachers, substitute teachers or parents. As it turns out, stakeholders are a necessary evil only. Protecting the herd, themselves, is their first concern. A question, by a board member was asked, about how this reduction in staff would impact students...
Our District Is In Trouble & It’s Up to Our Community to Fix It
Berkeley Heights school district is on a downward spiral and needs drastic change. How do we get there… Step 1 – we need to change the makeup of the board. This is where the community can make their voices heard. The BOE has members with validated ethics complaints against them, and most members don’t question or challenge the administration. The...
Laura’s Notes on 04/27/2023 Budget Portion of BOE Meeting
Dr. Foregger and Ms. Khanna Vote “No” to Cut Supervisors But It Wasn’t Enough Below are Laura’s notes. I want to thank Tom and Dipti for supporting teachers and supervisors by voting no. Dr. Varley incredibly made this a choice between Supervisors and Teachers and not once considered her or the Business Administrators staff as a means of reducing costs....
2023 BHPSNJ Budget Pre-Meeting Wrap Up
Overview of Snap Shots and Where We Can Go From Here So I covered several areas that would be important to families, teachers, and principals to the best of my ability. The first item comes down to very big questions on the Benefits account that Sai brought to the public’s attention. We possess the documentation (through OPRA) other Districts used...
Option II
Parent expresses concern on response she received from the District on Option II – Kelly Hufnagel The lack of consideration for individual student needs is appalling. For background, NJ law requires that all HS students have 4 years of physical education. “Option II” allows for some exceptions, namely student athletes. This has not been a BH policy and was last...
Ms. Stanley’s District-Funded Ethics Complaint Against Sai Akiri Continues to Backfire
Another set of ethics allegations validated by the SEC moves on to a Judge There is now a third SEC-validated complaint against Ms. Stanley to arise out of what many feel were politically motivated actions by the Board against Ms. Akiri. In a somewhat ironic twist, a large portion of the complaint against Ms. Akiri was dismissed, and the remainder...
Round Two: School Budget Edition
Laura’s Notes on the Agenda for This Thursday Laura’s Second Choice For a Title: “Let’s abolish positions that directly interact with students while keeping the business offices top heavy” Are you ready? Important things to know from the agenda: (Reinstate means- added back from the previous budget proposal) 1)Resolution on the REORGANIZATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM (if you’re feeling deja...
BHCW 04/23/2023 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...
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...
BHCW Night Watch Episode 14
Collaborative Model, Ratings, Budget, Option 2, and other stuff. All Night Watch Episodes
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