The success or failure of public schools in large part relies upon the interest the surrounding community takes in the school’s affairs. While funding and policy are vital for educational excellence, everyday residents could develop essential roles in strengthening the learning environment.
Ridgewood Schools reveal their blueprint to shape the future of education in the village
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Ridgewood NJ, over the past several years, Ridgewood’s social structuralists have erected scaffolding to conceal the “tradition of excellence.” A tradition that is slowly eroding, but one that was built on American values and beliefs. That life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness relied on independent freedoms and choices, not upon the structural orders of Critical Theory hypotheticals. District and Village representatives are proud to pull the curtain off their self-created scaffolding to reveal a new structure: the politically left and teacher union approved “Community School.”
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Ho-Ho-Kus NJ, New Jersey continues to shine as one of the best places to live in the U.S., with five towns making the 2025 Best Places to Live in America ranking, 3 in Bergen County released by Niche on Monday.
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Ridgewood NJ, President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive order aimed at eliminating what the White House calls “radical indoctrination” in K-12 education.
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Ridgewood NJ, a state Superior Court decision and a Democratic candidate in next year’s gubernatorial election have made racial segregation a live political issue in New Jersey, but most voters don’t perceive the level of segregation in the state or see it as a problem. According to the latest results from the FDU Poll, just 12 percent of New Jersey voters say that the schools where they live are segregated, and just 19 percent say that they want more racial diversity in their neighborhoods.
Continue reading FDU Poll: New Jersey Voters Not Buying the “Race Card”
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Trenton NJ, Senate Republican Leader Anthony M. Bucco and Senators Joe Pennacchio and Declan O’Scanlon, issued the following statements objecting to a Democrat push of legislation that would protect school officials and librarians from distributing explicit and obscene materials to minors and expressing concerns about the State interjecting more erroneous mandates on local communities.
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Ridgewood NJ, as students return to the classroom this fall, more than four times as many Americans rate public schools poor as rate them excellent.
Continue reading Back to School : Just 8% Rate Public Schools ‘Excellent’
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Trenton NJ, the Mercer County Superior Court heard arguments into whether the state’s long history of segregating Black and Latino students from public schools should end.
Mercer County Superior Court Judge Robert Lougy will soon decide whether the state must create and implement a school desegregation plan, hold a trial to gather more evidence or dismiss the case entirely.
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Phoenix, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has a strong message for the teacher unions in his state pushing for the shutdown of in-person learning in public schools: Don’t even think about it.
Continue reading Arizona Offers Education Vouchers For Parents If Government Schools Close
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Ridgewood NJ, School districts and institutions of higher education must adopt policies protecting students’ freedom of expression under legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Hal Wirths and signed by the governor on Tuesday.
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Ridgewood NJ, most Americans believe parents are right to be concerned about controversial teaching in public schools, and reject the claim that these are “phony” issues.
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“The conditions the NJEA are on the verge of forcing the state to impose on life in the public schools are so draconian as to cause normal parents to recoil in horror. This is intentional. The NJEA has been working overtime to make sure the state offers all parents the option of keeping their children at home indefinitely from the start of the school year based on generalized COVID-19 fears and anxiety. The one-two punch routine is completed by the NJEA pushing school re-opening guidelines that are so drastic as to cause parents to conclude that the schools will end up becoming glorified detention centers or penitentiaries. The NJEA figures most parents love their children too much to force them to endure the degrading and dehumanizing treatment the public schools are certain to have in store for them.”
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Ridgewood NJ,Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said Thursday that the health risks of keeping schools closed are greater than those of opening them, amid a push by President Trump to have students in classrooms this fall. “I’m of the point of view as a public health leader in this nation, that having the schools actually closed is a greater public health threat to the children than having the schools reopen,” Redfield told The Hill’s Steve Clemons.
At the Ridgewood Board of Education during the discussion of the Infant/Toddler Development Center , “Due to the pandemic, the district may have to pivot at any time; therefore, we cannot guarantee that schools will not be directed to close buildings and transition to remote learning.” The district is currently surveying parents and prepping for the opening .
Continue reading Debate Heats up Over School Openings in the Fall
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Hackensack NJ, In light of the coronavirus pandemic, Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco just announced that the county schools will close and transition to online learning until further notice, starting tomorrow at 3pm. The county executive and officials had been discussing throughout the day the potential of closing the school districts. On Tuesday, Tedesco declared a state of emergency in the county, where there are 13 presumptive positive cases of coronavirus, which has resulted in 1 death.
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