Interesting Facts About Ridgewood, NJ
Answers to Questions the Community Had about Our Business Administrator’s new District. One question we’ve heard asked in the community – does Ridgewood have an information source similar to BHCW? This question came up in the community discussion surrounding news (that we broke) of the Business Administrator’s acceptance of employment in Ridgewood. The answer is yes- sort of. There are...
Varley, Penna and ….Danielsen?
The Folks Wanting to Destroy OPRA Appear to Have One Thing In Common: Hiding Important Information from the Public Currently, legislation is being proposed at the state level -championed under the guise of saving money-that would render OPRA meaningless. OPRA is a law that allows residents to obtain documents from government entities and provides remedies for non-compliance. Under OPRA, government agencies...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2023 Budget Questions- What did Dr. Varley’s Nepotism Defense Cost Berkeley Heights?
Related Content: BUDGET, NEPOTISM & TEXTBOOKS DR. VARLEY’S NEPOTISM SETTLEMENT AND CONCERNING QUESTIONS FOR THE BOARD ATTORNEY DR. VARLEY’S LEGAL TEAM TRIES TO PREVENT RESIDENT FROM ATTENDING HEARING ON NEPOTISM ALLEGATION DR. VARLEY’S NEPOTISM INVESTIGATION
Time to Put Student Needs Ahead of Lawyers and Petty Politics
Political Vendettas and Unethical Behaviors are Harming our Students Here’s a little test. Ten months ago, five of our eight BOE members (to be joined by a sixth member a month later) chose to start a chain of actions in bringing about ethics charges against a fellow board member. Those actions resulted in several opposing ethics complaints by town residents....
How To Destroy A Change Agent | Part I
The Attempted Political Hit Job on Sai Akiri- Why It Matters and Why It May Back Fire — January Through April 2022– Many reading this will know how the story ends. They may not know that many violations alleged in the District’s tax payer-funded political hit job were dismissed, and what is left will likely be dismissed. They may not...
How Much More Should We Be Expected to Tolerate?
The ongoing saga of our BOE, Dr. Varley and Julie Kot is Harming Our District -Sai Akiri It has been almost two years since parents became aware of the mass transfers of teachers in preparation for redistricting and reconfiguration in 2021. Parents, the key stakeholders, were not informed until the nth minute, they were not offered a seat at the...
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