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Written by RPS Superintendent of Schools, Susie DaSilva A Few Bits... Board of Education Budget News The Town held its Annual Town Meeting on Saturday April 24.  It was great to see and talk to everyone in person after all these months!  During the meeting the Town voted to move the Board of Education’s fiscal 2021-2022 general operating budget as approved by the Board of Finance as well as the Town’s fiscal 2021-2022 general operating budget forward to referendum.   The Town Referendum will be on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, at the East Ridge Middle School between the hours of 6:00 a...

Three Rivers Pandemic Update Pandemic status: New case rates across the US are rising again Case numbers across the United States are rising slowly; the current case rate in the US is about 70,000/day 7 day rolling average. 25 states now report increasing case rates. Case rates across many European countries continue to increase. Virginia is almost stable, our case rate is about 1400/day 7 day average. Three Rivers has improved; our new case rate is averaging about 20 new cases/day, 7 day average. There is agreement among public health authorities nationally that we are experiencing another p...

Written by Dr. Susie Da Silva A Few Bits from Superintendent Da Silva Important Board of Education Budget Dates: Monday, March 15- The Board of Finance will hold a BOF Public Hearing on the Town and Board of Education 2021-22 Budgets. Thursday, March 18- The Board of Education will present their budget to the Board of Finance. Saturday, April 24- Annual Town Meeting on the Town and Board of Education 2021-22 Budgets. Tuesday, May 11- Town Referendum on the Town and Board of Education Budgets. Asynchronous Learning Day On Monday, March 15th, elementary students will be able to access a ...

change for elementary students only.  Elementary students will engage in a  full day of asynchronous learning rather than a half-day.  The reason for this change is due to CSDE requiring teachers to be assessed in the Foundations of Reading Survey.  Teachers will be taking this proctored assessment on March 15.    As a special treat on this asynchronous day-elementary students will have the opportunity to engage in a pre-recorded science show performed by DOKTOR KABOOM. Click here to see his website. Thanks to our PTA and the Ridgefield Education Foundation, our students will have t...

Crisis Dashboard: Big Data Helps Paint the Big Picture (March Update) How to Read the Dashboard Our crisis dashboard includes signals from three areas: 1) public health, 2) the consumer sector and 3) financial markets. By pulling big data from traditional sources (earnings growth and gross domestic product, for example) and nontraditional sources (like Google Trends and Glassdoor), we can create a better mosaic of the road back. Public health, of course, is the key: until vaccines are broadly available, the cascading impact of the virus may continue. The dashboard color codes (red, yellow or ...