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About Me
- Laurie Goodman
- Ridgewood, NJ, United States
- I served on the Ridgewood Board of Education 2008-2011, and I continue to blog on education issues in Ridgewood, the state of New Jersey and the nation. I've worked in direct marketing creative for 20+ years, creating and writing catalogs, websites, corporate marketing, emails, white papers, and more. I live in Ridgewood, NJ (since 1997), married with two children (one in college and one at RHS).
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- My comments on the budget from tonight's meeting.
- Frustration 101.2
- The budget is set. Please vote yes on April 20.
- And the political volleys continue.
- State comparative spending report shows Ridgewood'...
- Frustration 101.
- A brief history of tenure
- Don't look to Massachusetts as a guide!
- Public Forum on Ed Funding April 5...have your voi...
- Out of town but not out of mind.
- Bridgewater-Raritan teachers union, school board r...
- Shortest meeting on record?
- Sorry so quiet...hope to post more soon...
- Higher taxes OK to save programs?
- Real world impact of Christie cuts felt at schools.
- Board of Ed meeting is moved to RHS Campus Center.
- Fiscal responsibility.
- Wrestling with the budget cuts.
- Letter to parents from Dr. Fishbein
- Special Board of Ed meeting tonight 5:00 & a comme...
- Friday night's all right for...talking budget!
- Press Release from the Ed Center
- Ridgewood’s schools will be changed forever.
- Ridgewood state aid cut may be catastrophic
- Ridgewood Public Schools Bond Sale will be March 25
- Two Ridgewood students to attend North Jersey Spel...
- Reality bites.
- Tonight's meeting focus: budget, of course
- Schools closed tomorrow; not sure about meetings
- Dad's Night is here again...
- Art, life & hard choices.
- Nationwide Common Core Standards are ready for rev...
- DEP Hearing on artificial turf fields
- Charging students for parking at Vets?
- Follow me on Twitter!
- Budget update: the pain is becoming real.
- Tonight’s Board of Ed meeting
- Super Science Saturday is tomorrow at RHS: Check o...
- What do teachers want?
- What I learned, that I didn't already know, at the...
- BOE Candidates for April 20 election
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11 comments:
You would have been better off sitting at the Daily Treat or on a local sports sideline listening to residents discuss their concerns and hopes for Ridgewood's schools. Think bottom up; not top down.
I do know how to tap into the concerns and hopes of our community for Ridgewood's schools. The purpose of last night's meeting, though, was very specifically to have the new Commissioner of Education and various legislators inform us about what kind of decisions are coming from Trenton to affect our schools. There were some specific questions asked of them and they just gave back typical political doublespeak. It was just a little disappointing.
Don't you think that Brett Schundler is kind of batting in the top of the first? It is, after all, a nine inning game.
Sure it's a nine inning game, but in terms of the 2010-11 budget, we're in the top of the 9th. Just because Schundler was brought in off the bench at this point in the game, doesn't change the sense of urgency and fatigue felt by those of us who have been playing all along.
That's enough of the baseball analogy, hahaha!
Brett Schundler thinks he's trying to score a touchdown in this baseball game.
Were there any angry tea baggers trying to shut down the public meeting, the way they tried to shut down health care public meetings last summer?
I'm wondering if angry tea baggers try to stifle *all* public discussion, or only public discussion that they deem politically incorrect.
Give it a rest with the "tea-bagger" label, it only shows your intolerance to ordinary citizens who are feed up with, "politics as usual."
fed up, or feed up as you put it...
all we hear about is your anger, your resentment, your unhappiness
guess what? the other 98% of the country doesn't give a hoot about your personal problems.
Is 9:41 already running away from the name "tea bagger"? I thought that was the cool, edgy, Ayn Rand-loving crowd within the lunatic fringe.
10:36, do you know what the term "tea-bagger" means? It's a really nasty slur, that frankly doesn't belong on any blog discussing schools or the children within them. Why don't you knock it off, and discuss the issues based on the merits.
Play nice. Less name-calling, please. Thanks.
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