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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Public Schools present the second program in the SP Speaker Series will be held on Wednesday, November 14 on the topic, Struggling Learners: What’s a Parent to Do? Director of Special Programs Dr. Kim Buxenbaum will lead the program on available interventions for Ridgewood students. The programs will be held at the Education Center, 49 Cottage Place from 7-9 p.m. Plan on attending!
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Ridgewood NJ, Monday October 29, the League of Women Voters in Ridgewood will host a candidates night debate for the Ridgewood School Board .
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Ridgewood NJ, Yesterday, Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) hosted over one hundred attendees at his second of two Fifth District Service Academy Nights for high school students interested in attending one of our country’s five military academies.
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Ridgewood NJ, Tax reform added some new taxpayer-advantageous changes to college savings plans. These plans are also known as qualified tuition programs (QTPs) or Sec. 529 plans, named after the part of the Internal Revenue Code that established them.
Background: Sec. 529 plans allow taxpayers to put away larger amounts of money than other tax-advantaged education savings plans do, limited only by the contributor’s gift tax concerns and the contribution limits of the intended plan. There are no limits on the number of contributors, and there are no income or age limitations. The maximum amount that can be contributed per beneficiary (the intended student) is based on the projected cost of college education and will vary between the states’ plans. Some states base their maximum on the projected costs of an in-state four-year education, but others use the cost of the most expensive schools in the U.S., including graduate studies. Most have limits in excess of $200,000, with some topping $370,000. Generally, additional contributions cannot be made once an account reaches the state’s maximum level, but that doesn’t prevent the account from continuing to grow.
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Board of Education appears to have violated the Open Public Meetings Act. On Thursday, October 25, 2018 a special public meeting was called with NO notice appearing anywhere , not even a mass email was sent out to parents and guardians . The Agenda appeared on the board web site 48 hours in advance, yet the BOE appeared to discuss non related items that were not listed on the agenda.
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Special Public BOE Meeting
Thursday, October 25, 2018
49 Cottage Place
7:30 p..m.
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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!
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.
file photo by Boyd Loving
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?
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 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].
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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.”
file photo by Boyd Loving
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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 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 .
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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
