With over 300 teachers being laid off due Newark’s school budget cut of $42 million, which is the equivalent of 5.4% of their budget. Newark needs to find ways to save money and still provide a quality education to their students.
Newark School District needs to get creative and think outside of the box. Like Ridgewood did when they decided to replace their foreign language teachers with Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone is an awarding winning foreign language instruction computer program. A regular teacher supervises the instruction."Having a (world language) teacher in the classroom is always the best. But in these times, we need to look to other ways to deliver what we do," said Superintendent Daniel Fishbein. He said Ridgewood saved just under $200,000 by cutting three Spanish teaching positions. He estimated Rosetta Stone, cost about $50,000.
