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>Sweeney: Merit pay for schools, not teachers

>Emergency Rooms: Not for Everybody?
Some NJ hospitals are marketing their emergency rooms to insured patients, while the state struggles to reduce ER visits by Medicaid recipients

Common wisdom in the healthcare industry: emergency room visits represent the biggest cost to hospitals. Then why is Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton mounting a marketing campaign to pull patients into its ER? Its recently announced 15/30 pledge promises a medical evaluation within 15 minutes of arrival and an exam within 30.

Robert Wood Johnson is hardly alone. Hospitals across the state are expanding their emergency departments and striving to cut waiting times to compete for patients.

Meanwhile, the state is struggling to reduce ER use by Medicaid recipients.

Suzanne Ianni , CEO of the Hospital Alliance of New Jersey, whose members include “safety net” hospitals in cities with large charity care and Medicaid caseloads, helps reconcile these two trends. She said hospitals are advertising their low ER waiting times in order to attract patients with commercial health insurance, which pays better rates to the hospital than Medicaid.

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/11/1101/0209/

>Gov. Christie, family tough it out during night spent without power in Mendham

>Email Message From Fishbein:
11/1/11 7:49PM

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM RIDGEWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

November 1, 2011

Good evening,

Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 2nd, only Willard School will be closed because electrical power has not been restored to that building. All other district schools will be open. All buses will operate on a normal schedule.

Please remember there are still downed power lines and a lot of debris in the area. Please be careful walking on sidewalks and driving to school. Many people are still without power, so please let your neighbors know about this message. Thank you in advance for your understanding during this difficult situation.

Daniel Fishbein, Ed.D.

Superintendent of Schools

>Ridgewood Schools : UPDATE ON STORM EMERGENCY: 10.31.11

Monday, October 31, 2011 4:35 p.m.: The Ridgewood Public Schools will remain closed tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1, due to continuing storm cleanup and power outages throughout the Village. Please help to spread the word that the Ridgewood Public Schools will be closed on Tuesday, November 1.

>New anti-bullying bill of rights raises concerns

BAYONNE, NJ (WABC) — Robert Jones, 11, of Bayonne, NJ, got into an argument after school on the playground. Several were children were involved but only one shoved him to the ground, 12-year old Liam Johnson.

“They were like pushing me and not letting me leave and tugging at my bike,” Robert explains.

When asked about what happened, Liam said it was unfair to call him a bully. Following the confrontation, Johnson was suspended at school and punished at home. But that was not the end of it.

https://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_jersey&id=8413364

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>October 2011 Snow Storm Blackout

I would like to give a round of applause to Ridgewood OEM for opening a shelter for those who did not have power! Oh wait they didn’t. Many of my elderly neighbors who did not have any friends or relatives to stay with were left all alone in the cold darkness. When they called the Ridgewood Police they were told they can go a shelter in Hackensack. All Ridgewood schools were closed which is a great location to open one, but still nothing was done. These are rare occasions that we get blackouts and you would think that the village would help its residents. Sunday evening was 28 degrees! All in all Ridgewood is a very elite town and does have an enormous amount of events for its residents. The least they can do is open a shelter for those with no power in below freezing conditions. Way to go Ridgewood, keep up the lack of work!

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A Salute to our Nation’s Veterans

All US Servicemen and Women Free

West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 S. Monroe St. Ridgewood, NJTickets: Adult $20; Senior Citizen $15; Student $7Information: 201/493-9030 or www.ridgewoodband.org7:30PM Prelude Performance – RCB All Star Jazz Band; Guest Conductor T. col Keene; Guest Solists Msg Matthew Wozniak. Program Highlights: american Salute; Concerto for Bass Brombone and concert Band; Festival Prelude on Star Spangled Banner; Marching Song of Democracy; the Greatest Generation; the Patriot.

>Garbage Pick Up – Suspended 11/1 & 3; Recycling Collection – Normal Schedule

GARBAGE PICK UP will be suspended Tuesday, November 1 and Thursday, November 3 – Normal garbage schedule resumes on Friday, November 4 and Monday, November 7.

RECYCLING collection will follow normal schedule.

— USE EXTREME CAUTION on all Village sidewalks and roads.

>Ridgewood Crossing Guard Position Applications

The Ridgewood Police Department is accepting applications for anyone interested in becoming a School Crossing Guard. Posts are a minimum of two (2) hours a day. Work may even be available during times when school is closed (winter/summer breaks). Please contact the Ridgewood Police Records Room at (201) 251-4531 for blank applications and questions. The Village of Ridgewood is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

>When the teacher is the bully

Bullying has become a national issue. But what do you do if the school bully is your child’s teacher?

When Karen Eubank’s son first complained about his “mean” teacher, she took it with a grain of salt. “Usually ‘mean’ just means a teacher makes you study, is demanding, or wants you to answer questions,” says the Dallas, TX mom. “Not that [the teacher’s] being verbally abusive.”

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what it meant. Eubank had transferred her son from a private school to a new charter that a friend recommended. During the tour, Eubank fell in love with the school — there was a garden, they played music at lunch, the school was “just beautiful,” she says.

https://www.greatschools.org/parenting/bullying/5063-when-the-teacher-is-the-bully.gs?page=1&cpn=20111030weeklysend