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Ridgewood NJ, Registration for children who will enter kindergarten or be new first graders to the district in September 2021 opens on January 16, 2021. Ridgewood residents can register online only by completing the registration process no later
than February 12, 2021.
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Board of Education meets on February 8, 2021 at 5:30 PM for an Executive Session and at 7:00 PM for the Regular Public Meeting at the Education Center.
Click here to view the agenda.
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood High School has earned the College Board’s AP® Computer Science Female Diversity Award for expanding young women’s access to AP Computer Science Principles (CSP). This award acknowledges 1,119 schools for their work toward equal gender representation during the 2019-20 school year—nearly 37% more than the 818 schools recognized the previous year. Ridgewood High School is is one of only 831 schools to be recognized for achieving this important result in CSP.
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood school district reported the following Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases from January
18 through January 22, 2021. In order to reduce the number of email communications, the district will issue COVID-19 notification letters on Tuesday and Friday beginning January 26, 2021, unless there is a situation where a school must transition to all remote learning.
The Public can view, listen and comment during the public comment period of the meeting via Zoom from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, or Android device.
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Ridgewood NJ, Neither the Ridgewood Village Council nor the RIdgewood Board of Education have yet decided if all of their respective employees, including police officers, firefighters, and teachers, will be required to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
From news sources:
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Ridgewood NJ, Due to health concerns related to COVID-19, there will be no in-person public attendance for this meeting.
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Ridgewood NJ, the League of Women Voters is attempting to weigh into the current legal fight over the legality of the ,“One Village One Vote” petition to consolidate election and forever raise your taxes with with less taxpayer oversight .In a massive blow to taxpayers ,the November “yes” vote effectively eliminated the Ridgewood School budget vote . The school budget make up 2/3 of the Village property tax bill and stands at a whopping $115 million dollars .
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Ridgewood NJ, Public attendance at the Ridgewood Board of Education meeting has resumed on a limited basis according to the current guidelines. Since there are a limited number of seats available, attendees will be selected through a lottery. For more information, click on the link below.
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Ridgewood NJ, at last Mondays Ridgewood BOE meet in the during the Superintendents report Dr. Fishbein provided a COVID-19 update and explained that the district continues to monitor the COVID activity in our community and surrounding areas. Many districts around us have transitioned to remote learning for a significant period of time. While we have had to pivot to remote learning in some buildings, most of those schools will reopen for in-person instruction this week. We have been successful by following contact tracing and guidelines of the NJDOH in collaboration with the Village of Ridgewood Health Department. As a result of all of the surrounding schools that are closing, the district is, however, starting to experience staffing issues, and we will closely monitor this situation.
Continue reading Ridgewood Superintendent of Schools Outline COVID-19 Response
December 9, 2020
Dear Parents, Community Members, Staff and Students,
The Ridgewood Board of Education has begun the process of recruiting superintendent candidates. By way of this letter and survey, we request your input in identifying the key qualities that you believe to be essential as we build the profile for our next superintendent, craft the interview questions, and identify the goals and objectives for our new superintendent.
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Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Board of Education meets Monday, December 7, 2020 at 49 Cottage Place ,7:00 p.m.
A link to the agenda can be found below.
Continue reading Ridgewood Board of Education Meets Tonight, December 7 at 7:00 p.m
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Ridgewood NJ, Due to two recent separate positive COVID-19 cases of unknown origin in each school, Benjamin Franklin Middle School and Ridgewood High School will transition to all remote learning , Wednesday, November 25, 2020.
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Ridgewood NJ, The N.J. Department of Community Affairs (DCA) recently issued a notice concerning emergency regulations for remote meetings held during declared states of emergency. These regulations were issued pursuant to P.L. 2020, c. 34 enacted on May 15, 2020, and they apply to all public bodies of a county or smaller, including local boards of education. The regulations cover many different aspects of remote meetings, including those outlined below:
“From my perspective, it is time to close ALL the Ridgewood schools, not just GWM, for in person learning even if only for a temporary period while the second wave of the virus crashes upon New Jersey . At the last public BOE meeting Monday evening , Fish and Lembo were self congratulating each other for having kept the Ridgewood schools open while they openly admitted every other surrounding towns/districts have taken more proactive actions to protect the children and staff of their schools by going remote for x days.”
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