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Ramapo Police are Investigating Alleged Child Abduction Attempt

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Ramapo NY, the Ramapo Police are investigating a suspicious incident that occurred on Thursday 9/22/22 between 7:15am and 7:40am in the area of North Airmont Road and Spook Rock Road. It was reported that a male with a beard, wearing yellow clothing and driving a gray 4-door sedan approached an 11 year old student waiting for her school bus. It is alleged that the driver told the child that he knew her mother and that she asked him to drive her to school. The child ran away and the vehicle left westbound on North Airmont Road.

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Ridgewood Board of Education Regular Public Meeting June 13, 2022 7:00 pm

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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Board of Education meets on June 13, 2022 at 6:00 pm for an Executive Session and 7:00 pm at the Education Center for a Regular Public Meeting.

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Ridgewood Crew Makes Great Progress as Regatta Season Approaches

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Crew had the whole team on the Schuykill River for the 2022 Fifth Manny Flick / Horvat Series of rowing races on Sunday, April 24. The weather was beautiful for the 79 races rowed by 74 teams.  

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Ridgewood Schools Facilities Plan: It’s one man’s ego and the board that is too meek

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Ridgewood NJ, In 2018, Ridgewood School made a facilities presentation in which the Performing Arts Center concept was added in at the end. Then the location, scale and cost estimates were different. That’s the first diagram.

At the facilities presentation last month, another plan emerged (surprise!). That’s the second diagram. Different locations, and it takes up a big part of the parking lot, and of course, costs more. $30 million is the estimate.

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Senator Kristin Corrado to Ease Court Backlog of Special Education Cases Advances

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Ridgewood NJ, Backlogs in New Jersey’s often-criticized system for resolving special education disputes between families and school districts would be eased by legislation sponsored by Senator Kristin Corrado and advanced today by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee.

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Ridgewood School Rank Continues to Drop

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by Steve Ki,m

Ridgewood NJ, Wanna good laugh? (or cry)

At the October 7th BOE meeting, Mr.Morgan and Ms.Brogan were busy bashing NJ Monthly’s high school ranking methodology. They didn’t do sufficient research because that ranking is weighted heavily on several factors related to academics. Most other factors get minor weights. RHS has fallen to 36th because of AP related factors. (For an AB comparison, Glen Rock ranked 2nd. This negates any major influences of demographics or magnate school inclusion.)

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Just Making sure the expectation of “my kids will spend 7 hours in comfortable environment are set right”

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‎by ‎Saurabh Dani

Ridgewood NJ, Did you know that close to 40+M that’s proposed to be spent on HVAC at Ridgewood Schools:

1. Does NOT include air conditioning, it’s ONLY for heating systems.

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RIDGEWOOD STUDENT SAFETY DATA (INCLUDING HIB) REPORT

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Ridgewood NJ, Stating it was “an excellent year,” RHS Assistant Principal Basil Pizzuto presented data for this past school year, as required by law. In addition to reporting the data, he spoke about the creation of a K-12 mental health department that meets monthly and includes the new guidance counselors at the elementary schools, signifying a unified approach to HIB issues. Following the presentation by and the opportunity for public comments, the Board formally accepted the report, summarized as follows:

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2020’s Best Colleges in New Jersey

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Ridgewood NJ, With the first “early decision” college-application deadline looming on Nov. 1 and tuition costs have more than doubled since the 1980s, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its 2020’s Best College & University Rankings as well as accompanying videos, in addition to separate rankings for colleges and for universities.

To help college-bound seniors choose the best schools within their states, WalletHub compared over 1,000 higher-education institutions in the U.S. based on 33 key measures grouped into seven categories, such as Student Selectivity, Cost & Financing and Career Outcomes. The data set ranges from student-faculty ratio to graduation rate to post-attendance median salary.

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Ridgewood Board of Education Meeting Tonight!

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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Board of Education will hold its next Regular Public Meeting on Monday, October 7, 2019. The Board meets at the Education Center, 49 Cottage Place, Floor 3 at 7 p.m. (Executive Session), followed by the public meeting at 7:30 p.m.

The public is welcome to attend the meeting, or to watch from home on Fios channel 33 or Optimum channel 77. Meetings are also streamed via the “BOE Webcast” tab on the district website at www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us.

Meeting webcasts are immediately available on the district website.

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Jamboree Casting Call

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Ridgewood NJ, Jamboree Casting Call: All Ridgewood High School parents and guardians are invited to a CASTING CALL to register to participate in the JAMBOREE 2020-IT’S ABOUT TIME! Performances are February 6,7 & 8, 2020 and Rehearsals begin January 2nd!

For 73 years, Jamboree has presented an original musical revue, raising funds for need-based college scholarships for graduating RHS seniors. More than $1.6 million has been raised in the last 15 years alone and distributed to hundreds of worthy applicants.

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Reader claims Ridgewood BOE direction will change in April as the Majority rules

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“Someone wrote: “I’m sure Mr. Dani woke up this morning to the realization that his embarrassing failure was directly attributable to the very people that thought bullying people on social media into silence was his path to success. All reasonable people looked at the unhinged behavior of the people he aligned himself with and said we have serious work to do here. No wonder they went in a different direction.”

This is such flawed reasoning that it is laughable. Only four people voted for the candidate last night. Hundreds of people spoke and wrote in support of Mr. Dani. His path to success, as you anonymously mis-state, is that he is greatly admired by so many people. The four pitiful idiots on the board, who are not clear thinkers, are threatened by a smart and sensible person like Mr. Dani, which is why they did not vote for him. They went in the same tired direction they always go.

That direction will change in April. Majority rules. Those four are nothing.”

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Ridgewood Allege RHS Coach Routinely subjected athletes to Emotional and Mental Abuse

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Ridgewood NJ, Another bombshell revealed at a BOE meeting?

During the the Public comment from 2 parents at tonight’s BOE meeting allege that an RHS coach routinely subjected athletes to emotional and mental abuse. Complaints were filed with the BOE and no response has been received to date according to the complainants.

The Board quickly shut down the comments ,claiming they cant speak about personnel issues during open meetings.

Residents claimed the athletes who complained waited for the season to be over before they issued complaints for fear of retaliation and have thus far, been ignored. Dr. Fishbien did not look happy with the allegations going public.

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Ridgewood High School Awarded the Shoprite Cup

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood High School accepts the Shoprite Cup for the best Group IV athletic program in NJ 2018-2019. 

ShopRite Cup Winners , Wakefern Corporation awards points to schools for 1-winning group championships and 2-for being disqualification-free all year in all NJSIAA sports. At the end of the year, the six top earning schools (four public schools and two non-publics) are awarded the prestigious Shop-Rite Cup.