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>House Overwhelmingly Passes Garrett Amendment Protecting Small Business
Garrett Amendment is a “Key Vote” for U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed Congressman Scott Garrett’s amendment to the Fiscal Year 2008 Financial Services Appropriations Act, helping small businesses grow and American financial markets thrive, by a strong bipartisan vote of 267- 154.

“Small business is the backbone of our economy and it deserves our help,” said Garrett. “The excessive auditing and reporting requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley law are breaking the backs of public companies and American financial markets and they will surely crush small businesses altogether. Today, the House said with a strong voice that small business is important to our economy and we will protect them from overly-burdensome regulations that keep them from prospering.”

Garrett’s amendment was supported by the American Banking Association, Independent Community Bankers Association, National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which deemed a vote in favor of the Garrett amendment a “key vote” for American small business.

Garrett has also introduced a bill, the Small Business SOX Compliance Extension Act (H.R. 2727), to extend the current small business exemption under Section 404(a) of Sarbanes-Oxley a full year.

>From the vormath site:

Look at the test scores.

In 2000, Travell was ranked 81st in the state for 4th graders.
In 2006, Travell was ranked (dropped) to 277.

In 2000, Orchard was ranked 47th in the state for 4th grader.
In 2006, Orchard was ranked 174.

Rankings were based upon the aggregate (total) of the advanced, proficient, and partial proficient NJAsk math scores for 4th graders. (Visit psk12.com to see scores from 2000 to now).

>A Valley insider had this to say:

Birthing babies is the MOST profitable aspect of Valley Hospital. They are losing potential mommies to hospitals with more SINGLE rooms. Now, every new mother to be wants a single room and she is willing to pay the extra $s for it. Valley wants to be able to provide that single room to every pregnant patient that wants one. Ka ching!

For this, they need to set aside an entire new wing, also moving diagnostic and pediatrics with it.

It is definitely about competition, but it’s competition over getting the profitable patients not in getting the most high tech equipment and personnel to handle the more expensive illnesses. Manhattan, after all, is not that far away.

Is it possible for valley to get what it wants without changing the building code?

We don’t really know, do we? They have not been made to provide other scenarios as yet (forget the DVD, that’s their opening gambit). They have not been made to provide an EIS (Environment Impact Statement). That should be necessary given that they are requesting a CHANGE in the town’s code. The EIS will provide much needed independent information to residents and planning members about noise, pollution, traffic, growth, pedestrian safety, effectiveness of proposed abatements, etc.

“Not-for-profit” and “competition” are an ungainly fit. So should the residents nearby (and the Village’s character) bear the brunt of this problem that Valley faces?

The planning board needs to ask the right questions. These will not be the questions Valley wants to be asked.

Let’s hope they are up to the task.

>just a few of the posts or attempted posts …..

why wasn’t pj at the meetingAnonymous said… Mayb…
(Anonymous)
6/18/07

Hey pj, it appears that you have been a bit busy d…
(Anonymous)
6/15/07

>Pursuant to the requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act, N.J.S.A.
10:4-6 et seq., notice is hereby given that the Ridgewood Board of Education
will hold Special Public Meetings on the following dates:

Monday, June 25, 2007
Special Public Meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the third floor Board Room at the
Education Center for the purpose of going into Executive Session.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Special Public Meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the third floor Board Room at the
Education Center. Actions will be taken.

Monday, July 9, 2007
Special Public Meeting with the Village Council at Village Hall at 7:30 p.m.
The purpose is discussion of the Village of Ridgewood Parks & Recreation
Master Plan.

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>And you can’t tell the players without a program.

Here are the Planning Board players:
Members:Morgan Hurley – Chairman (Ethelbert Place)David Nicholson – Vice-Chairman (Liberty Street)David Pfund – Mayor (Hillcrest Road)Kim Ringler Shagin – Councilwoman (Walthery Avenue)James Bombace (Midwood Road)Richard Fricke (Woodland Avenue)Anne Ward (Melrose Place)Albert Pucciarelli (Cottage Place)Nick Tsapatsaris (North Murray Avenue)Charles Nalbantian – Alternate 1 (Bellair Road)Richard Barclay – Alternate 2 (Brookside Avenue)

Staff:Gail L. Price, Esq., Board AttorneyBlais L. Brancheau, PP, PlannerChristopher J. Rutishauser, PE, Village EngineerBarbara K. Carlton, Board Secretary

And also for the record, Valley Hospital President, Ms. Audrey D. Meyers, lives on Highland Avenue. The Valley’s attorney, Charles (Chuck) Collins, owns property on Bellair Road and on Prospect Street.

>TERC – WHEN IT FAILS, IT’S BECA– USE OF THE TEACHERS, not our Mishugona* curriculum

An excerpt from “Changing the Elementary Mathematics Curriculum: Obstacles and Challenges”, Susan Jo Russell

TERC , 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140

Curriculum as teacher development

We see our curriculum as a vehicle for teacher development. The actual curriculum is not what we envision and write down, but what happens between students and teachers in the moment of teaching and learning. So while part of our responsibility is to provide the material, the actual investigations, in which students will participate-and this in itself is no easy matter-the other, equally critical part of our responsibility is to open up that material to teachers, to invite them in both to the mathematics and to children’s mathematical thinking.

The audience, therefore, for our materials, is teachers, not students. Our units are written to the teachers with many digressions about mathematics and about children’s learning of mathematics. The responsibility is absolutely on the teachers to make this material work. If they fail, the material fails. On the other hand, by not making teachers partners in the past, we have made a grievous error. By not inviting teachers in to mathematics, by attempting to make materials “teacher proof” because educators or mathematicians believed that classroom teachers were not smart enough about mathematics to teach it, not only have we denied the students a good mathematical education, but we have denied generations of elementary teachers-largely women-access to mathematics.

It could be me, but if I were a teacher, I’d be insulted.

*”Mishugona” is Yiddish for crazy, the fly is trying to appeal to a more ethnic audience

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>How the Ridgewood superintendent was hired…

Hard Questions….

>”Bombace posted in that “obscure blog” at the request of one of the math moms. She evidently felt that posting on your blog was not cool.You did not have to dig too far, the comment is also posted on the VOR math website.So your feelings are hurt that your blog did not get the scoop, it looks like Grandpa Nizzo outdone you! No apology needed, the comments by the Board were true and validated by facts. Many of the parents involved in this controversy have chosen to distance themselves from those who chose those tactics.I can only hope they chose to distance themselves from this blog. Choosing to post on another blog looks like a start. “

*BUT this blogger wants to know ,what are these “tactics” everyone is taking about ?

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