March 29,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Board of Education has approved the preliminary 2018-2019 school budget. Prior to the final Board vote on Monday, May 7, public presentations will be given at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3 at George Washington Middle School Auditorium and on Monday, April 16 at Benjamin Franklin Middle School Auditorium.
Questions on the budget may be sent to budget19@ridgewood.k12.nj.us.
View the 2018-2019 Preliminary Budget presentation, given at the March 20 Board of Education meeting: https://www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=13032001
What part of the budget (none?) is going towards improving the actual ACADEMIC QUALITY of Ridgewood schools?
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Are the feckless superintendent and RHS principal doing anything to improve these numbers?
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Ridgewood DID NOT make “The 50 highest scoring schools in NJ’s new school ranking system”
RHS is ranked 84 out of 386 in NJ High Schools (not even top 20%)
nj.com article link:
https://www.nj.com/education/2018/01/the_top_50_schools_in_njs_new_state_ratings.html
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Ridgewood DID NOT make the “top 10” (or even the “top 25”) in NJ High schools
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Ridgewood DID NOT even make the “Top 500” high schools Nationally (they were almost in the 600s)
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Ridgewood BARELY made the top 50% in College Readiness (53.6% of students are ready for college … which means almost HALF of RHS students ARE NOT ready for college)
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us news link:
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-jersey/districts/ridgewood-public-schools/ridgewood-high-school-12746
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Pathetic. Pitiful.
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The State of NJ ranks Ridgewood High School as 83 out of the 385 NJ high schools.
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Lets see how bad that really is…
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Neighboring Glen Rock was ranked #13
(the top twelve are specialized “academies” and vocational schools which have academic standards for acceptance)
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Here’s some other (local) schools that are ranked higher than Ridgewood:
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#20 – Pascack Hills (Pascack Valley)
#25 – Northern Valley – Demarest
#28 – Tenafly
#29 – Mahwah
#45 – Northern Valley – Old Tappan
#46 – Pascack Valley
#48 – River Dell
#52 – Indian Hills
#55 – Emerson
#56 – Fair Lawn
#60 – Northern Highlands
#61 – Fort Lee
#72 – Waldwick
#73 – New Milford
#76 – Bergenfield
#82 – Ramapo
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Then Ridgewood at #83
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But at least we beat out Dumont (ranked #84)
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Embarassing.
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But let’s approve the $110 Million budget.
It’s money well spent.
We’ll keep deluding ourselves that we have great schools.
It’s all part of the “Tradition of Excellence”
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Time for Sheila Brogan to go. When is she up for re-election?
My God… we’re not even better than Bergenfield? Waldwick?
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Maybe we need a bigger budget. How about $125 million and a goal to break into the top 75…
Bergenfield, Dumont, Ramapo… Those towns must have massive budgets
I’m all for improving the schools but I think we all need to notice that all this feigned outrage is being fanned by sycophantic lackeys of the Mayor to divert attention from a council whose only demonstrated skill is spending tax dollars with little progress to show for it. At review time, every underperforming employee I ever had got really good at deflection and diversion. Seems to be working here too.
feigned outrage $110,000,000 budget to not place in the top 20% in the state , Ridgewood property values don’t come from rainbow flags and anti gun proclamations .
Ha Ha 3:49… good one.
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Blaming others of the exact misdeed (deflection and diversion in this case) in which you are currently engaging…
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Classic. (but we are not fooled).
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BTW, Are you a product of a Ridgewood education?
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