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Ridgewood NJ, a recent Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request made by a Ridgewood taxpayer has uncovered a history of unwarranted purchases of bottled/cooler water made by the staffs of two Ridgewood elementary schools.
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Fire Fighters FMBA Local 47 is excited to bring Santa around on a fire truck to visit Ridgewood elementary schools on Friday, December 20th! Check the attached schedule below to see when we’ll be at your school and come out to wave to Santa before his big night.
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Ridgewood NJ, on Thursday December 23rd the Ridgewood Fire Department made the rounds with Santa . Santa visited all Ridgewood elementary schools. Ridgewood Professional Firefighters FMBA Local 47 thanked all those who came out for the Santa meet and greet . Santa even walked away with a note hopefully everyone got what they wished for!!!
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Ridgewood NJ, this Wednesday 12/23/2020 the Ridgewood Fire Department will be driving Santa around to all the Ridgewood Elementary Schools! The department says they won’t be able to hit every neighborhood, but they will try and hit any streets they can. So come on out and see Santa and just remember to wear your masks and maintain social distancing!
Ridgewood elementary schools using new world language program
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014, 5:59 PM
BY JODI WEINBERGER
STAFF WRITER
The world language program in the elementary schools will look a bit foreign this year.
Ridgewood educators are piloting what they call an “exploratory immersion” Spanish program for Grades K-5 after being unhappy with the results from language learning software Rosetta Stone.
The software was purchased by the district in 2010 after three world language elementary teachers were eliminated in response to $6 million in budget cuts in 2009.
“[Teachers] felt [Rosetta Stone] was ineffective to teach children the information,” said assistant superintendent Cheryl Best. “They didn’t really feel that students were effectively learning.”
Best called the program “a little glitchy” and said students would work on a section of the program only to return to it and find that their progress had been lost.
“It was very hard for students to make headway in the program,” she said.
As a result, teachers were barely meeting the minimum usage of 30 minutes a week with their classes.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/education/ridgewood-elementary-schools-using-new-world-language-program-1.1080360
