Saturday, January 20, 2024

Motzei Shabbos Bo News Updates Lakewood

Weather: 16° Some passing clouds. Low 16F.

A blast of Arctic air has pushed temperatures down into the teens Shabos morning — with gusty winds making it feel as cold as the single digits. Making matters worse, forecasters say, those winds could start blowing snow around and the frigid temperatures could cause black ice to form on roads and walkways.

- Snow totals
Jackson Twp.: 5.1 inches
Manchester: 4.5 inches

- Several township Roads not fully plowed and a sheet of ice

- Lakewood firefighters battling  structure fire blaze  40 Chestnut an abandoned office building 

- Two people were found stabbed to death inside a home in Brooklyn. Police responded to reports of an assault at 1158 45th Street in Borough Park just before 5:30 p.m. Saturday. When they arrived, they found a 75-year-old man and a 75-year-old woman with stab wounds throughout their bodies. The victims were taken to Maimonides Medical Center where they were pronounced dead. A suspect was taken into custody.  Abc7 news update
BDH: R’ Yakov Yosef Sperber Z"L 75 years  and his wife Mrs Rochel Sperber A"H 75 years. A family member with severe mental illness was taken into custody.

- Trump: Nancy Pelosi was responsible for Security - She should not have turned down the 10,000 solders offered by President Trump days before January 6. Also, the January 6th Unselect Committee of political Hack and Thugs should not have DELETED AND DESTROYED the Evidence and Findings of their Committee. What they did is illegal- A CRIME!!!

Attorney Paul Tractenberg  who is arguing along with R' Aaron Lang to fux the funding formula  for Lakewood has argued the case in court for 14 times so far according to an article  about him today
Nj- Attorney Paul Tractenberg was arguing another school funding case before the New Jersey Supreme Court several years ago when one of the justices had some questions. “‘One, how many times is it that you’ve now argued in this court in this case?’ " asked the justice, as related by Tractenberg recently. “To which I said, ‘14.’ Here

- Shiva for R' Eli and Raizy Naydavoud ZL families getting up Monday morning.

2 comments:

  1. The "case" in the article was Abbott v. Burke, which brought tens of billions of dollars to NJ urban districts. A Lang.

    BTW We proved in court that the loans are not providing a thorough and efficient education and that Lakewood students are not better off. If they were, then there would be no cause of action in court, until of course, the state forces Lakewood to ante up. Then all future school funding for tomorrow's kids will go to paying back the state loans for today's kids. At that point, even the BOE will have to admit that the kids were harmed.

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  2. It is folly for the BOE to argue that the public schools have “more opportunities at the high school and county vocational program than ever before with more than 250 students participating. . . We have seen growth in certain select areas and are outperforming the charter school in Lakewood.” All our grandchildren's tax dollars will be used to pay back for the education of our children today.

    If we were doing better, then we would not have a cause of action, and the proverbial can would be kicked down the road for our children to grapple with.

    The law in NJ is that funding has to be certain, predictable and non-discretionary. State funding of $80 million, which is the amount we need, is not the same as encumbering the people of Lakewood with $100 million (deduct the $20 million we pay back each year). TYou cannot plan, remediate or build when you don't know if your doors will stay open each year. Moreover, all those new programs come from the tens of millions of federal dollars brought into town by our 50,000 student population. Federal funding also does not count in school funding litigation. So all the BOE can accomplish by agreeing with the state and claiming that education has improved, when it has not, is to continue this cycle of borrowing from future generations of students and drive Lakewood into financial collapse.

    This is the BOE you elected, Lakewood!

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