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Ridgewood NJ, on November 7th the Village has to make some decisions as to the direction of the Ridgewood school system . The choice is clear either the residents opt for a school district run for the benefit of the teachers union and give over control of their children to the NJEA and their enforcers or residents put children and their education first .
Continue reading The Ridgewood Blog Endorses Dani and Guinchard for the Ridgewood Board of Education
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Ridgewood NJ, these are from the ELEC report of MICALE and MCHEDLISHVILI, who are endorsed by the Union. Continue reading Ridgewood Education Association Funds MICALE and MCHEDLISHVILI
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Ridgewood NJ, it’s what every parent wants to know these days… Who is injecting politics into our schools? Thanks to a heads-up from a friendly teacher, now we know that the NJEA is training teachers to become political activists in local school districts.
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Trenton NJ, Senator Holly Schepisi said a “Disinformation Alert” issued by the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) is a disingenuous attempt to dismiss the concerns of parents that new sex education standards could result in their children being exposed to lessons that are age-inappropriate or in conflict with their values.
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Ridgewood NJ , in Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey’s recent report, “Teaching Is Political, Part I,” we revealed that the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) is training teachers to become political activists and push for truly radical curriculums at the local school district level. In this report, we look at how the NJEA has taken its political activities to the next level by inserting itself – and teachers – into this fall’s school board elections. The shared title of Sunlight’s two reports comes from an NJEA Summer Collaborative called “Teaching Is Political.” The NJEA likes to claim that others are seeking to “politicize our public schools,” but by its own words and actions, it is the NJEA that is bringing politics into schools and school districts around the state.
Continue reading THE NJEA INSERTS ITSELF – AND TEACHERS – INTO LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS!
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Trenton NJ, Senator Ed Durr responded to an advertisement from the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) that labels parents extremists for expressing concerns about new curriculum and sex education mandates from Trenton.
IS THE EDUCATION TRUTH PROJECT A NJEA-FUNDED, DARK MONEY PAC?
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Ridgewood NJ, It sure looks like the NJEA is funding another dark money Super PAC, this time aimed squarely at parents running for school board this fall. Sunlight Policy Center of New Jersey recently received several tips that New Jersey’s most powerful special interest, the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), is funding a new dark money Super PAC aimed at this fall’s school board elections. This would make sense, as a dark money Super PAC would complement the other parts of the NJEA’s multi-pronged, statewide campaign to fight the wave of parental activism in school districts across the state.
Continue reading PARENTS RUNNING FOR SCHOOL BOARD MAY FACE A WALL OF NJEA DARK MONEY
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Ridgewood NJ, the hot debate in the Village of Ridgewood is whether school board trustees should have kids in school or not. While the question never arises over long term trustee Sheila Brogan who is white certain “non white” candidates and trustees have been targeted by the teacher union candidates . Sheila Brogan was also charged with and ethics violation , lost the appeal the status of which is currently being covered up the Ridgewood Board of Education.
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Ridgewood NJ, Looks like more slanted coverage of the culture wars by the NJ press corps. This time it’s InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack. We’re starting to see a pattern.
Continue reading NJ Press Corps and Its Slanted Coverage of the Public Education Culture Wars
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Ridgewood NJ, this has come up at several Ridgewood Board of Education meetings recently and has been a periodic point of contention over the last 20 years as to the size of the Ridgewood school board.
Continue reading Should the Ridgewood Board of Education Be Expanded ?
keep you hands off the kids !
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Trenton NJ, Assemblyman Robert Auth (39) spent some time in Trenton on Thursday with parents concerned about Trenton-Murphy/Platkin mandates and directives. “In his concurring opinion in Troxel, Justice Thomas summarized an important aspect of this Court’s precedential opinion in Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925), writing that “parents have a fundamental constitutional right to rear their children, including the right to determine who shall educate and socialize them.”
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Westwood NJ, in an effort to reassert the rights of parents , the Westwood Regional School District board has voted to require superintendent approval for classroom discussions of any “controversial issues” not specified in the district curriculum, clamping down on teachers politicizing classrooms but drawing criticism from those who warned that the change will stifle conversations about real-world topics.
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Ridgewood NJ, Senator Holly Schepisi said the Murphy administration won’t admit it’s considering adopting new vaccine requirements for school children even after the New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) sent proposed rule changes and a solicitation for comments to “stakeholders” on May 8.
can you say sleeping at the switch ?
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Ridgewood NJ, as previously reported on the Ridgewood blog the Ridgewood Board of Education voted to push the school day back 35 minutes at Ridgewood High School, beginning next fall.
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Paramus NJ, Paramus School district officials were forced to send a letter to parents after a district high school teacher was caught looking at inappropriate pictures during class on Thursday.
