Ho, Ho, Ho: Laughing All the Way
The Rules Surrounding Transparency Continue to Not Matter.... I recently wrote about an exchange involving my own OPRA request, and I have received more information about how OPRA requests have been...
Author: swilliams
Shauna’s Notes on the 12/14/2023 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting
Gaslighting On the RFP, More Power to the President, Still No Answers on Legal Spending and Board Correspondence Now Requires Gate Keeping The Superintendent's Report led immediately to the...
Board Games: Not What We Had on our Holiday Wish List
Questions surround recent board decisions and superintendent recommendations...
The Berkeley Heights BOE may be taking advantage of having a new Business Administrator in place, who has not yet had...
Role of BOE Members and the Current Race Against Change
The current majority can embrace the benefits of a split Board instead of working feverishly to maintain control. During a recent Berkeley Heights Board of Education meeting, board member Robert...
Board Goals – A Chance to Make a Positive Change
Shauna's Notes on the 11/02/2023 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting At a special meeting on November 2nd, the Berkeley Heights Board of Education met to set goals for themselves as a governing body....
The 48 Hour Rule
Is this new policy simply another mechanism designed to restrict BOE Members who want change from expressing an opinion? This change to BOE Policy 0164 requires that any new business be brought to...
More Conflicts of Interest, More Hypocrisy and More Cash for Giacobbe
At the last BOE meeting during New Business, Dr. Foregger began to make a motion, saying, "I move to continue indemnification of Sai Akiri for her legal expenses...", at which point both Angela...
All You Do is Complain
Over the course of the last two weeks this statement has reared its head yet again, along with the similar sentiment of 'you never bring up the good things we do'. Admittedly, there has been a lot...
Shauna’s Notes on Italian
World Languages Faces Another Setback... We previously reported that regular Italian 4 classes at GL were not being offered due to low enrollment and that students who would have been in the class...
Thoughts on Thinking Classroom and Proficiency Scores
It's a late-summer tradition, not only for us, but for many in town: finding out which teachers (or team, for CMS) your students will have for the upcoming year, and texting friends and neighbors to...