The Board of Education meets
Monday, November 4, 2019
49 Cottage Place
7:30 p.m.
The agenda is posted below
The Ridgewood Board of Education will hold its next Regular Public Meeting on Monday, November 4, 2019. The Board meets at the Education Center, 49 Cottage Place, Floor 3 at 6:30 p.m. (Executive Session), followed by the public meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood is not the only North Jersey town reeling from development pressure .Towns like Ridgewood , Montclair, Glen Rock , Upper Saddle River, Montvale to Fort Lee looking to come up with different strategies, for approving a new surge of housing, retail and cultural options intended to revive local business districts, meet state affordable-housing requirements and cater to changing consumer tastes.
Continue reading Ridgewood Schools Superintendent Back Tracks on High-Density Housing Impact on Schools
by Saurabh Dani
Ridgewood NJ, LAN associates estimate for replacing cubbies like the one in this image in elementary school classrooms is 250$per linear feet plus 13.5% in their fee to design and oversee the work.
Question: Can the schools be creative in this and allocate this 250$ per linear feet as budget and allow the class teacher and HSA to pick the furniture for their classrooms instead of letting the architect do it?
EDIT: not just for cost savings, but also for creativity.
What’s the downside?
” Do you think anyone might put a premium on learning the basics? Many of those who graduate can’t pass the entrance to a community college (go on and ask the administrators at BCC, go ahead) so then the have to take the remedial coursework which they or their parents have to pay AFTER all the property taxes they paid for the town’s education which the student didn’t get. And those credits don’t apply to the degree. But no worries they’ll tell you they need and you must give them MORE money thrown at this problem which won’t do anything. Then, of course, there are all those teachers ‘aide’ individuals who add MORE cost to the bottom line..”
Continue reading Reader says, “Many of those who graduate can’t pass the entrance to a community college”
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Ridgewood NJ, Results from the semi-annual National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were released this morning. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), first administered in 1969, is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do in subjects such as mathematics, reading, science, and writing. The results of NAEP are released as The Nation’s Report Card, and are available for the nation, states, and in some cases, urban districts. Teachers, principals, parents, policymakers, and researchers all use NAEP results to assess progress and develop ways to improve education in the United States.
Continue reading New Jersey Students Lose Ground in Reading and Math
“When I see the words Fishbein and invites you…we all know it’s going to cost more..a lot More…performance is
not relevant to any task at hand. “
Photos and Post courtesy of Steve Kim
Ridgewood NJ, according to Steve Kim on the Facebook page It Takes a Ridgewood Village, “These are the details of a long-dated Ridgewood BOE Bond: 2035 maturity/2027 call
Continue reading It is Essential to have the Ridgewood School Budget Vote
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Ridgewood NJ, according to the Facebook page Unofficial: Ridgewood NJ Updates’s, ” Our board of education CLAIMS that they have not yet “finalized” the list of projects for referendum and that will be done in March 2020.
If the list is not finalized, then why are they spending THOUSANDS of dollars this month for presentations to parents in schools, and if LAN associate’s stated timeline of 10 months was true, then in payments to LAN associates for final sketches?
Continue reading Parent Referendum Presentations Go Forward but Ridgewood BOE Says, “it’s Not Finalized”
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Ridgewood NJ, Coffee and Conversation with the Board of Education members and Dr. Daniel Fishbein
Thursday, October 10th, 9-10:30 a.m.
The Education Center
49 Cottage Place
The coffee will be brewing! Please stop by for a cup and a chat! Bring your questions, comments, concerns and suggestions.
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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.
” The psyche of most volunteer school boards is often very flawed, it’s the exception not the rule that you have a board that is not more concerned with their own power and influence than the mission of the board. The Ridgewood BOE is no different, the majority is driven by ego, and to vote on a new interim member [Dani] who is void of ‘ego’, and is focused on the ‘mission’, would directly affect their ability to wield power and influence, so it’s logical that they would not want Dani on “their” board. It’s unfortunate, but common, that board members come to enjoy the “power trip”. They generally start-off well meaning, and then veer of into this unfortunate course, where what is important is no longer the mission and the children, but what they mistakenly perceive as ‘power’. This makes it of crucial importance that come April, the majority makes their voice heard, and loudly, in a decisive fashion. The consequences of letting the Ridgewood BOE continue to run in this unchecked fashion can negatively affect the Ridgewood community for many years. “
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Ridgewood NJ, Coffee and Conversation with the Board of Education members and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Daniel Fishbein.
Thursday, October 10
9-10:30 a.m.
The Education Center
49 Cottage Place
The coffee will be brewing! Please stop by for a cup and a chat!
Bring your questions, comments, concerns and suggestions.
We want to know you better.
“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.”
“In the next six months the Board majority needs to deliver on their promise (to special interest groups); commit to multi million dollar projects and move the election back to November so residents won’t be allowed to vote or change the school budget.
None of what they are planing will directly impact the children’s programs, education or stop the decline in school ranking. Residents pockets will be tuned inside out and we will all be financially crippled by debt.
The Board President and Vice President have lowered their taxes bracing for the hike. WAKE UP RIDGEWOOD! THE MULTI MILLION DOLLAR REFERENDUM IS COMING!
They appointed Muhammad banking on the fact that he’s only lived here a few seconds, is not registered to vote and doesn’t know enough to stop or expose their plan. “
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Ridgewood NJ, Following the nominations of Saurabh Dani, Muhammad Mahmoud and Mary Micale by various Board members, Muhammad Mahmoud was elected to fill the Board vacancy.
Here’s a cropped video of Mr. Mahmoud’s public candidate interview by BOE members. The interview took place at the BOE’s public meeting held on 09/09/2019.
