Ridgewood Board of Education opposing potential aid loss
Monday April 29, 2013, 9:51 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
School districts with an attendance rate below 96 percent will lose school aid for the 2013/2014 school year, if state legislators heed a New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) recommendation.
The proposal has upset school officials across the state, including members of the Ridgewood Board of Education (BOE), who voted last week to send a resolution to legislators that encourages the rejection of the recommendation.
It is an issue that administrators believe could potentially affect Ridgewood.
“We’re in the range of 96 to 97 percent. We have less than 1 percent of attendance as a buffer,” said Assistant Superintendent for Business Angelo DeSimone.