Tag: Ridgewood Schools

>Five (5) Firms Vie For Village of Ridgewood (VOR) Taxi Concession

FIve (5) firms submitted bids today for the Village of Ridgewood (VOR) Taxi Concession. The successful bidder will be granted exclusive rights to operate their business of the Village owned taxi stand on North Broad Street (at the NJ Transit Railroad Station).

The five (5) bidders were:

Bergen Transportation Services of Hackensack – offered VOR $850 per month for concession rights

G.W. Taxi of Fort Lee – offered VOR $1000 per month for concession rights

Ridgewood Taxi of Ridgewood – offered VOR $1500 per month for concession rights

Lime Line Cab of Fort Lee – offered VOR $1750 per month for concession rights

E&K Car Service of Hawthorne – offered VOR $2700 per month for concession rights

Each bidder submitted their proposed business model and subscriber rate structure.

Subscriber rates differed widely; The Fly is not sure exactly how the Village Council is going to make a decision.

Stay tuned folks.

>Christie pushes school choice, eliminating teacher tenure during pro-charter school film screening

Gov. Chris Christie’s recent charge to fix the state’s failing schools continued today at a screening of pro-charter documentary “Waiting for ‘Superman,’” where he and the state’s top education official delivered remarks about his reform agenda. (Sebastian, The Star-Ledger)

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/christie_pushes_school_choice.html

>Christie announces pilot education program in Paterson

In his continued effort to remake public schools in New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie’s office announced that a famous private education organization would open a pilot project in Paterson, one of New Jersey’s poorest cities. (Method, Home News Tribune)

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20110119/STATE/110119064/Christie-announces-pilot-education-program-in-Paterson

>Reshuffling the deck: 13 districts in need of change as redistricting unfolds

As the reapportionment committee prepares for its first public hearing later this month, the big question looming in political circles is which districts will change and what legislators could find themselves without a chair when the music stops. (Isherwood, PolitickerNJ)

https://www.politickernj.com/44240/reshuffling-deck-13-districts-need-change-redistricting-unfolds

>Appeals court order Christie administration to get cracking on COAH rules

A state appeals court has ordered Gov. Chris Christie’s administration to immediately comply with its October directive to adopt revised affordable housing rules by March. (Symons, Daily Record)

https://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20110120/COMMUNITIES/301200024/1005/NEWS01/Appeals-court-orders-Christie-administration-to-get-cracking-on-COAH-rules

>Bergen freeholders vote to overturn lame-duck appointments
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
BY MICHAEL GARTLAND
NORTHJERSEY.COM
STAFF WRITER

The Bergen County Freeholder Board voted Wednesday night to overturn and review several appointments and policy initiatives that were approved late last year by the outgoing county executive, Dennis McNerney, and the lame-duck Democratic freeholder board.

The board, which is now controlled by Republicans, voted 4-2, with one abstention, to rescind the appointment of its clerk, Jennifer Holdsworth Kleinman, and replace her with Karen Mastriano.

It also passed resolutions calling for the review of dozens of other appointments and contracts, as well as the nullification of a $2.6 million bailout of the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood. The appointments, contracts and the bailout were all enacted during the freeholder board’s lame-duck session in November and December.

MORE: https://www.northjersey.com/news/011911_Bergen_freeholders_vote_to_overturn_lame-duck_appointments.html

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>NJ Senate Committee to Take Up Resolution Forming Obamacare Bureaucracy

Here we go again on Thursday, January 20, the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee is once again making an effort to establish the NJ Health Care Reform Implementation Council and begin the process of setting up Obamacare in New Jersey.

This time through a Concurrent Resolution – SCR-141.

The following legislators sit on the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee:

Loretta Weinberg (D-37)
Joseph Vitale (D-19)
Dawn Marie Addiego (R-08)
Diane Allen (R-07)
Robert Gordon (D-38)
Sean Kean (R-21)
Fred Madden (D-04)
Ronald Rice (D-28)
Robert Singer (R-30)
Jim Whelan (D-02)

>26 States Join Suit Against Obama Health Law

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Six more states joined a lawsuit in Florida against President Obama’s health care overhaul on Tuesday, meaning more than half of the country is challenging the law.

The announcement was made as House members in Washington, led by Republicans, debated whether to repeal the law.

The six additional states, all with Republican attorneys general, joined Florida and 19 others in the legal action, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

“It sends a strong message that more than half of the states consider the health care law unconstitutional and are willing to fight it in court,” she said in a statement.

The states claim the health care law is unconstitutional and violates people’s rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties.

Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/18/states-join-obama-health-care-lawsuit-fla/#ixzz1BWX5GPAh

>A Christie doctrine for charter schools?

It was news enough that Gov. Chris Christie yesterday announced 23 new charter schools in New Jersey, the largest class yet of the semi-autonomous schools. Nine were approved for Newark alone, nearly doubling the total in that city. (Mooney, NJ Spotlight)

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/11/0118/2302/

>Abbott Schools : Pouring other people’s money into the patronage mills of urban schools and the unions which hold these children hostage.

It has been disproved that poor children can’t perform as well as those in more affluent districts. It is time to stop blaming the kids’ home environment and start looking at how these failing schools are run and by whom.

Educrats and the teachers’ union use poverty as an excuse for their own failings.

Abbott is a typical liberal solution, pouring other people’s money into the patronage mills of urban schools and the unions which hold these children hostage.