=== School Budget ===
2025-2026 BHPSNJ Budget – Full Detail and Snapshots
Date: 2025-04-26
Provides the full detail top-level budget for 2025-2026 along with top increases and decreases across spending lines.
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https://nj21st.com/2025/04/26/2025-2026-bhpsnj-budget-full-detail-and-snapshots/
More Notes on Security Spending – 25-26 BHPSNJ Budget
Date: 2025-04-24
Goes into specific detail on the District's continued attempts to prevent public access to the line item budget and attempts to peel back the layer of significant increases in security theatre.
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https://nj21st.com/2025/04/24/more-notes-on-security-spending-25-26-bhpsnj-budget/
Budget Withheld, Questions Unanswered
Date: 2025-04-23
Covers the Business Administrator and OPRA Custodian's obstruction in providing the full detailed budget and does a deep dive in one of the Budget concerns in Laura'a Agenda Summary
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https://nj21st.com/2025/04/23/budget-withheld-questions-unanswered/
Laura’s Notes on the 04/24/2025 Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting Agenda -Budget and Policies
Date: 2025-04-23
Provides a summary of the 04/24/2025 BOE Budget Meeting and highlight key concerns with the Advertised budget.
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https://nj21st.com/2025/04/23/lauras-notes-on-the-04-24-2025-berkeley-heights-boe-meeting-agenda-budget-and-policies/
Turf Fields and Tutoring: Who Gets What in NJ’s Broken System?
Date: 2025-04-12
Explores how spending choices often favor high-visibility projects like turf fields over instructional investments like tutoring. Also covers PILOT allocation, security funding, and cost-shifting from municipal to school budgets.
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https://nj21st.com/2025/04/12/turf-fields-and-tutoring-who-gets-what-in-njs-broken-system/
The BHPSNJ Budget Problem Timeline in 2 1/2 Minutes
Date: 2024-10-22
Summarizes the key moments of the 2022–2024 budget battles in a short explainer. Highlights messaging failures, cost-shifting, and public confusion surrounding BHPSNJ’s school funding.
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https://nj21st.com/2024/10/22/the-bhpsnj-budget-problem-timeline-in-2-1-2-minutes/
The Budget, Stupid.
Date: 2023-02-24
Highlights how political narratives distracted from budget realities and long-term fiscal concerns within the district.
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https://nj21st.com/2023/02/24/the-budget-stupid/
How Many Administrators Can Fit on a Fiscal Cliff?
Date: 2023-02-20
Critiques increasing administrative overhead amid budget limitations. Questions whether cuts will disproportionately affect classroom staff and services.
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https://nj21st.com/2023/02/20/how-many-administrators-can-fit-on-a-fiscal-cliff/
BUDGET, NEPOTISM & TEXTBOOKS
Date: 2023-02-08
Analyzes early concerns in the 2023 budget cycle around transparency, curriculum spending, and district hiring practices.
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https://nj21st.com/2023/02/08/budget-nepotism-textbooks/
This Year’s Budget Process Was NOT Normal
Date: 2022-11-04
Describes procedural irregularities and communication failures during the 2022–2023 school budget process.
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https://nj21st.com/2022/11/04/this-years-budget-process-was-not-normal/
The BHPS 2022 Budget Controversy: Synopsis
Date: 2022-05-13
Summarizes the controversy surrounding the 2022 BHPS budget, including board disagreements and public response to planned cuts.
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https://nj21st.com/2022/05/13/the-berkeley-heights-public-school-2022-budget-controversy-synopsis/