BHCW 04/14/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts with the BHPSNJ BOE Special Meeting slated for tomorrow, tackling areas the public has long expressed concerns about – Lawyers and Zoom Access. The BOE will also be interviewing interim Superintendents. We move on to the resignation of the township CFO, who stepped down at a critical...
BHCW 04/07/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts with coverage of the recently released 2022-2023 NJ DOE School Performance Report results. An Educator in our Community provides an overall report card comparing Berkeley Heights to other Districts, including the six other schools on our Dashboard. We move on to a closer look at the Dashboard...
What Berkeley Heights Residents Should Know About “the Line”
What is “the Line”? The Line refers to an inherent Ballot design structure unique to NJ that lists candidates according to an endorsed slate versus according to the office they seek. A typical primary ballot design in other states lists candidates according to the office they are seeking, for example, Nevada and Delaware: This is what a NJ Primary Ballot...
BHCW 03/31/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. The primary focus of this week’s newsletter is more drama surrounding the Policy Committee Chair’s attempt to steamroll through a policy that essentially seeks to justify the controversial Courtesy Busing program that leaves some families paying for busing while others receive it for free. This week, we learned about closed-door meetings,...
BHCW 03/24/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter analyzes the 03/18/2024 BOE meeting discussions surrounding the budget and transportation. Concerning the budget, residents will discover that the Administration (specifically the Business Administrator) responded in a manner that can be described as confusing and defensive to questions about more found money. Even more perplexing is the insistence...
BHCW 03/17/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts in Trenton, picking up where we left off last week on the battle over OPRA with additional coverage on the Affordable Housing bill. We begin with a fierce battle on 3/11 that saw a packed room at the hearings and OPRA advocates throughout the state tear the...
BHCW 03/10/2024 Newsletter – Save OPRA
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter begins with vital information for Berkeley Heights Residents. We cover renewed efforts on the state level to destroy OPRA, the rally to defend our current law, and ways that YOU can help in the effort. Time is of the essence as both bills are being heard TOMORROW – Monday – 03/11/2024....
BHCW 03/03/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. The week’s newsletter thoroughly analyzes Gale Bradford’s first meeting as BOE President and yet another crammed agenda. Residents will learn how Ms. Bradford’s autocratic and probably illegal method of running a meeting collided with three substantial presentations crammed in one meeting, led to a “by design” inability on the part of...
BHCW 02/25/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter begins with our story on a Berkeley Heights resident who took the NJ Department of Education to court on an OPRA case concerning the Berkeley Heights Public School bussing controversy and won. We then move on to the 02/26/2024 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting Agenda and cover concerns on...
BHCW 02/18/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts with tackling three significant issues facing the Berkeley Heights School District in the coming months: The Audit/Budget Process, Superintendent Search, and the ongoing Courtesy Busing Controversy. Readers will discover that misdirection, strange numbers, and secrecy continue dominating all three areas, along with the meeting agendas to which...
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