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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...

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...

What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter features an interview with Mayor Angie Devanny that includes frank discussions with BHCW on the CMS Field, All-Inclusive Play Ground, and the recently passed Land Use Ordinance, among other items. We were proud to create and publish the first-ever 7-District Dashboard ACFR Budget spreadsheet that provides the public...

What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts with a primer on the 2024 Budget that provides a few snap-shots of the 2022-2023 ACFR. Residents and parents are strongly encouraged to read the attachments to this first in a series leading up to the 2024 BHPSNJ Budget process. We then move to the strange tandem...

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...