What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –05/04/2024
Breast Cancer Screenings Now at 40, Teacher Layoffs Coming, Low Income Families in NJ Face Potential Internet Crisis, NJ Property Tax Community Rankings, NJ Seniors & Internet Scams, Medical Marijuana Program Failing Patients Women Should Start Getting Mammograms at 40 NJ Spotlight The revised guidance is in response to a rising rate of breast cancer among women ages 40 to...
BHCW 04/28/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. In this week’s newsletter, we start with the $34,000 the District spent to avoid responding to one OPRA request as a means of protecting the former Superintendent and BOE Majority. This week, the District finally settled, and the documents requested by the parent were received. We provide coverage of the 04/24/2024 meeting, where the...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week – 04/27/2024
Magnet Schools Help the Wealthy, Kevin Walsh makes the Machines Nervous, NJ Failing Newark Youth, NJ Tax Payers Have Biggest, Lifetime Hit on Wallet Magnet Schools, Rankings and Wealth NJ Education Report School Some would argue these magnets, which pick top contenders from among the whole county, are examples of public school choice: Applicants can ignore school district boundaries as long...
The $34,000 OPRA Request
On 08/2022 a resident made an OPRA request for legal bills between 5/20/21 and 5/20/22 on 08/2022 and the District provided overly-redacted bills that blocked out key information. A lawsuit with the Superior Court to obtain this information was filed on 10/22/22. Instead of providing this information, the District made the decision to engage in a lawsuit that spanned 18 months. The same attorneys who prepared and...
BHCW 04/21/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. In this newsletter, we go super deep into the BHPSNJ Transportation Controversy. We cover potential policy solutions the District can implement, dispel myths and disinformation spread throughout the community this week and provide a review and analysis of the BOE Meeting on 04/18/2024, which also includes a sidebar agreement that teachers...
Child Safety is Being used as a Shield to Push through a Disturbing Policy Precedent
And Another Great Example as to Why OPRA is so Important… Before October 2023, the NJ Department of Education published the DRTRS summary report that anyone could access. Unfortunately, after multiple Berkeley Heights residents raised questions on the discrepancy in the number of Courtesy busing students reported to the state department of education and by the district last year, the...
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...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week – 04/13/2024
Majority Opposed to OPRA Bill, Students in Failing Districts Deserve Choice, Prisons Remove Phone Contact, A Decision on County Line Appeal Coming Soon, Cherry Blossoms in Bloom Overwhelming Majority Against Gutting OPRA NJ Spotlight Some 81% of registered New Jersey voters do not support proposed legislative changes to the state’s Open Public Records Act, according to a new FDU Poll....
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’s Important to Know About NJ This Week – 04/06/2024
Academic Declines Continue, Anti-Bribery Bill Moves Forward, The “Line” Injunction Holds, Legislation Targets Squatters, Harm Reduction Efforts Expand, OPRA Faces its Third Assault in Six Months The Kids Are Not Okay- The Academic Declines Continue NJ Education Report 48% of teachers say the academic performance of most students at their school is fair or poor; a third say it’s good...
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