Tag: Ridgewood Schools

>Councilman Tom Riche explains the Council’s objections to the panels


Some writers to the Blog accept PSE&G’s incomplete defense of the solar panels being installed around the state and mocking those who oppose them as hypocritical, anti-“green,” or NIMBY. In fact, the issue is more complicated than that. PSE&G has not revealed the full story.

Tom Richie makes a pretty compelling case against the Solar Panel project in this link to a video of Mr. Riche’s interview on the subject on Fox & Friends.

Going Green Gone Wrong?

New Jersey Towns Fight Solar Project

https://tinyurl.com/3ukr7t8

>Ridgewood blog Quickly Restored after Cyber Attack 


Ridgewood NJ- A hack attack was reported on the Ridgewood blog around 4:39 pm on the 28th of March by several astute blog readers .The blog was back on line within an hour. We want to thank our readers for reporting the issue so quickly . At this time it is still unclear whether this attack was related to the  “LizaMoon.” mass-injection cyberattack .


thank you, 


PJ Blogger and the Staff of the Ridgewood blog 


Millions of sites hit with mass-injection cyberattack
By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal
April 1, 2011 10:37 AM

PC World – Hundreds of thousands — and possibly millions — of websites have been hit with a cyberattack that some are calling “one of the biggest mass-injection attacks we’ve ever seen.”

The attack was discovered on March 29 by security firm WebSense, and the injected domain was called lizamoon.com — thus, the name of the mass-injection is “LizaMoon.” According to WebSense, LizaMoon uses SQL Injection to add malicious script to compromised sites. While the first injected domain was lizamoon.com, additional URLs have since been injected in the attack (WebSense has a full list here).

https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215428/Millions_of_sites_hit_with_mass_injection_cyberattack

>

Readers fault Tenure for decline in “Tradition of Excellence”

Do you trust the principals of our schools? Do you trust their judgment and knowledge of their teaching staff?

Like every manager in the private sector, they should be free to hire and fire the personal who work under them. Are their politics involved, you bet. But so what, that’s life. Teachers are not a special class that should be immune to judgment.

Get rid of tenure and put the responsibility for the performance of each school in the principals hands. If the school fails, we will know who to blame. Simple really.

Testing should be just one tool. Parents and students should evaluate teachers too. Just like any other field, put the customers first.

It is time to stop this silly game of protecting teachers with tenure. It is a dog eat dog world. Let teachers perform and deliver a quality product efficiently or bounce them out the door.

>N.J. gets 58 charter school applications

The state received 58 applications for new charter schools by its Thursday deadline for another round of possible approvals, an Education Department spokesman said. (Brody, The Record)

https://www.northjersey.com/news/119044834_N_J__gets_58_charter_school_applications.html

>Loophole allows Essex County Executive DiVincenzo to collect full salary, pension

Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. didn’t want to wait until leaving office to begin collecting his pension. (Megerian and Augenstein, The Star-Ledger)

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/loophole_allows_essex_county_e.html

>COAH :High court to revisit housing law

The state Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to revisit laws aimed at forcing towns to provide affordable housing for low-income residents — a significant move that could alter the way towns are required to provide such housing. (DeFalco, The Associated Press)

https://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20110401/NEWS02/104010353/High-court-revisit-housing-law?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|State

>Healthy Kids Day
Sat, April 02, 2011
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Ridgewood YMCA, 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood NJ 07450

The Ridgewood YMCA is hosting Healthy Kids Day, encouraging kids and parents to come to the Y for a play date and commit to being active every day.

This event will include family swimming, face painting, obstacle courses, magic shows and summer camp games.

The Y is holding this event to teach healthy habits to kids and inspire a lifetime love of physical activity.

>Ridgewood Budget Details and State Teacher Salaries

Laurie Goodman ,

A more detailed budget is available on the district website at this link:

https://board-of-education.ridgewood.schoolfusion.us/modules/locker/files/get_group_file.phtml?gid=944840&fid=10911951&sessionid=cc8a06deb138bc4f9c890c3a08bf5d2d

It does not contain ALL the individual lines you mention, but it does contain some of them, plus summaries for things like Total Kindergarten Teacher Salaries and Total Grade 1-5 Salaries, and quite a lot of other detail. The format and information in the budget, and the (confusing) way it’s organized/displayed, is dictated by the Dept. of Education.

Here’s a site to see NJ teacher salaries:
https://www.mycentraljersey.com/section/DATAUNIVERSE08/Datauniverse-New-Jersey-Public-School-Teachers-and-Administrators

>Gasoline up 100% under Obama
James S. Robbins

Feeling pain at the pump? Gas prices have doubled since Mr. Obama took office. According to the GasBuddy gasoline price tracking web site, the price of a gallon of regular gas was around $1.79 when Mr. Obama took office. Today the national average is $3.58. The lowest average price in the continental United States is $3.31 in Tulsa Oklahoma, the highest is $4.14 in Santa Barbara, CA. Four-dollar-a-gallon gas has arrived on average throughout California, and a number of other states are headed in that direction.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/mar/30/gas-prices-double-under-obama/