Special Public BOE Meeting
Thursday, October 25, 2018
49 Cottage Place
7:30 p..m.
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SPECIAL PUBLIC RIDGEWOOD BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING TONIGHT
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Ridgewood HS NJ Football invites you out Friday to RHS stadium at 7pm!
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Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Varsity team is next in action at home on Friday night October 26 vs Hackensack. Senior Night! Please come out and cheer on the Maroons! This game that has massive NJSFC Liberty Red Division Championship and NJ State playoff seeding implications. Join the student body Come on out to be the 12th teammate for the Maroons!
Ridgewood HS NJ Football invites you out Friday to RHS stadium at 7pm. Who has the best CHEER team in the State? RIDGEWOOD! Come out and see the Cheer team perform this Friday at RHS Stadium at the HS football game at 7pm!
Who has the best marching band? RIDGEWOOD! Come see the best band in the land perform this Friday, October 26 at 7pm at the home Ridgewood football game. RHS Stadium! The band always puts on a great performance!
Reader says happy we have a choice for the Ridgewood School Board Elections
Loncto absolutely has to go. He is so condescending. He is trying to act like a totally agreeable guy now that THANK GOD we have a candidate running against him. But do not be fooled. Loncto is large and in charge and he wants no one to get in the way of his super intelligence. He absolutely is opposed to having us vote on the budget. Believe me, he is only saying he will support it because he wants to get reelected. he will flip on this be certain.
Reader says The schools are a mess, and they just try to cover it all up
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Cyberbullying, bullying, sexting, beatings. 10 long years of persistent, awful conduct in our schools, documented and covered all over the news, including CBS, and nothing changes. The schools are a mess, and they just try to cover it all up. No wonder the rankings are dropping, with this administration. Who would want their kids to go here?
Cristopher Kaufman Makes His Case for the Ridgewood Board of Education
To my fellow residents,
I feel there is currently a disconnect between the board, teachers and residents and a lack of transparency from the board. The Board of Education budget is 65% of our property taxes and spending has increased by over 30 million dollars in the last ten years. It is critical to control spending by sharing services with the Village and working with the Village Council in an effort to stabilize or reduce spending. I want to make sure we are working as one community, the Board of Education and the Village Council should be working together and sharing purchasing opportunities, maintenance costs, security and any other costs that can be shared in an effort to reduce spending.
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Ridgewood JAMBOREE CASTING CALLS Last Chance
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Ridgewood NJ, JAMBOREE CASTING CALLS Last Chance will be held on Tuesday, October 23 at 7 p.m. at the RHS Campus Center.
Since 1947 Jamboree has raised over $1 million in need based scholarship funds for graduating RHS students. And we put on a show in order to do it! Come to one of our casting calls and be a part of this great tradition. You’ll see how much fun we have. “No talent required!” meaning, everyone who comes out gets to be a part of the show! Or, if you prefer to work back stage, there’s plenty of opportunity there too! Questions? Email Denise DeAngelis at [email protected] or Erin Taddei at [email protected].
Ridgewood School Board President Claims He is For , “the budget Vote”
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Ridgewood NJ, the President of the Ridgewood School Board Vincent Loncto commented on the Ridgewood blog , yesterday Saturday October 20th ,
“I am Vincent Loncto. I want to let the readers know that I have publicly stated that I am in support of moving the Board oF Education vote to April, and enabling the public to vote of the school district budget. Whoever wrote that I am against that is utterly wrong.”
MacArthur Bill Would Make it Easier to Report Threats to Schools
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Toms River NJ, Congressman Tom MacArthur introduced two bills and is working on another to help local schools, students, and law enforcement officials address community and school safety concerns. The bipartisan Mental Health and Public Safety Partnership Act establishes a national pilot program to place on-site social workers in qualified police departments around the country, mirroring the work being done in South Jersey. The Modern School Threat Reporting Act creates new grants for states to create a mobile application (app) that allows students and teachers to report threats to local law enforcement. This bill mirrors the state law in Florida championed by school safety advocate, Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was killed in Parkland. Mr. Pollack, founder of Americans for Children’s Lives and School Safety, has endorsed both pieces of legislation and is collaborating with MacArthur on the third.
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Ridgewood Board of Education Candidates Night will be Monday, October 29, 2018 from 7:30pm-9:00pm at the Education Center
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Board of Education Candidates Night will be Monday, October 29, 2018 from 7:30pm-9:00pm at the Education Center, 49 Cottage Pl, 3rd floor, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
The two candidates running for the single open Board of Education seat are Cristopher Kaufman and current Board of Education President B. Vincent Loncto .
The most noticeable major difference in the candidates is the current Board of Education President B. Vincent Loncto is dead set against letting Ridgewood residents vote on the $110,000,000 school budget and the challenger Cristopher Kaufman is very much in favor of letting the public decide thru budget votes .
Ridgewood High School Bands Poinsettia and Amaryllis Sale Sunday, October 28th
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood High School Bands Poinsettia and Amaryllis Sale will be held on Sunday, October 28th, 2018 from 12:00p to 4:30p
Ridgewood High School , Ridgewood, NJ.Students will be selling door to door on 10/28/18 with a delivery December 1 – 4, 2018
Sizes and prices as follows:
6″ Red or white poinsettia – $10
10″ Red or white poinsettia- $25
Pink amaryllis – $15
Orders accepted until 11/16/18. Please contact Lorissa Lightman: [email protected] for more information. Orders/ checks made out to RHS Band Assoc can be mailed c/o Lorissa Lightman, 659 Spring Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07450
For more information on the band program and a list of events, visit www.rhsbands.org
NJ State Senator Doherty Opposes Effort to Inject Identity Politics Into School Textbooks
Says Ridiculous State Mandates Dilute Ability of Schools to Teach Fundamentals
Trenton NJ, During today’s meeting of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Mike Doherty (R-23) expressed his opposition to legislation that would force school districts to buy textbooks from vendors on a list approved by the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) due to their incorporation of “inclusive material.”
Reader says I am afraid that no-one with a brain or financial ability will stay/or move to Ridgewood
The obvious answer to your questions is No and No. Town members care, but the people in charge act like we don’t exist –so nobody is there, and they all have soundproof earplugs–so nobody cares! They have set up an impenetrable wall between themselves and the voters. They only pretend to care when it is nearing the elections. They pretend to listen to villager complaints but continue on their merry way with excessive spending on ANY project that ANY ONE thinks they’d like to see in Ridgewood. We can’t just vote them all out because they take their turns at election time. Nobody who seems to have a brain in their heads and some financial awareness wants to run. Who wants to take on all the personal attacks they would be subjected to if they try to contradict any of the rotten ideas presented? I am afraid that no-one with a brain or financial ability will stay/or move to Ridgewood.
Ridgewood High School Senior Kathryn Zhou and Her Team Wins Best Paper Award at MIT Technology Conference
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood High School Senior Kathryn Zhou and her team participated in the 2018 New Jersey Governor’s School of Engineering & Technology (GSET) at Rutgers University and won the Best Paper Award at the 2018 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC). Way to go Kathryn!
Ridewood Teachers Have Agreed to a Three-year Contract
Board – REA contract update
October 10, 2018
Dear Ridgewood Public Schools community:
On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 the Negotiations Committee of the Ridgewood Board of Education (RBOE) and the Ridgewood Education Association (REA) agreed to a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for a three-year contract July 2018 – June 2020.
During the next several weeks the RBOE and REA will work to finalize the salary guides before the MOA is voted on by the entire REA membership and then voted on by the entire RBOE.
The terms and conditions will be made public after both sides ratify the contract.
I thank both parties for working hard to make the MOA a reality.
Sincerely yours,
Daniel Fishbein, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Schools
Reader says this blog has correctly reported in the last week, bullying and Cyberbullying has been rampant in the Ridgewood schools
The Ridgewood School administrators surely can’t stop everything, but as this blog has correctly reported in the last week, bullying and Cyberbullying has been rampant in the Ridgewood schools by students and athletes for a decade under this administration. When will they be held accountable?
