file photo by Boyd Loving
May 8,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, as expected the Ridgewood Board of Education passed a massive budget increase of 4.3%, your tax hit is 3.6%. Two members of the board had great suggestions, and the other three don’t seem to care what public say had to say . All three need to be replaced and have needed replacement for some time .
During the presentation, they basically the BOE took 2% is for granted, but needed to justify 1.62% which is above 2%.
They killed the ridiculous windows project, but replaced it with different capital projects.
James Morgan tabled an amendment to the budget, in which these two newly added items were not a priority, so they can probably wait until the referendum, and let’s keep the budget under 2%. His amendment was defeated 3-2.
They spent a lot of time pretending they were cost focused as usual , which no one believes but frankly its school performance that’s lacking .
College-Ready Student Performance :
High school students take AP® exams to earn college credit and demonstrate success at college-level course work. U.S. News calculated a College Readiness Index based on AP exam participation rates and percentages of students passing at least one AP exam. The index determined which types of medals (gold, silver or bronze) were awarded to top-performing schools. College Readiness Index 53.6
What a disgrace and what do we get for all this? Administrators and teachers make out I guess – and every year its only going to get higher
They must not sell the Ed Center to developers. It’s an important part of Ridgewood history–the first school.
I don’t have any kids in school van to sell my house and move down south see year !
no surprises here…they take care of their own…people wake up towns a Ponzi operation…
Wow that’s a lot of money.
We’re rich and STUPID… We’ll happily pay.