Eighteen months after being asked to rule that the EastRamapo Board of
Education’s sale of the Colton Elementary School for $6.6 million to the
Congregation Bais Malka/Hebrew Academy for Special Children null and
void because the t
Last week, the special fiscal monitor appointed by New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a very critical 61-page report on abuses and likely illegal conduct by the EastRamapo Central School District and its haredi-controlled board.
For the past five years news reports detailing the destruction of the
EastRamapo School District have appeared on a regular, and
recently daily, basis. This once-proud and superlative school district has been ravaged by
mismanageme
EastRamapo’s Scandal-Plagued (and arguably corrupt) haredi-controlled
school district finally has begun to act on complaints from parents and
community activists about trespassing on school grounds by non-students. But when East Rama
MaraLuz Corado ran for a position on the scandal-plagued haredi-controlled EastRamapo school board on the pro-haredi proxy slate made up of three non-Jews, one of whom who had an exceedingly brief tenure on the countys planning board – o
Among a litany of alleged wrongdoing it outlines, a petition filed with the State of New York Department of Education alleges that the haredi-controlled EastRamapo school board used public funds to purchase religious books for yeshivas.
“It’s time for the board of EastRamapo to stop living in this fantasy where the world doesn’t see them as being misguided in their treatment of these public school children, and do something to show…they are going to try to act to repair
The proposal for the EastRamapo Central School District in Rockland County, N.Y., to take over the financially troubled Rockland Institute for Special Education (RISE) is drawing complaints from local activists and minority communitie
The special ed program would, at least for the rest of this year, maintain gender segregation and its student body would be wholly Jewish. Haredim now control EastRamapos public school board, and this has led to much tension and allegati
It is apparent from our discussions that you and the Board of Education
need to take dramatic actions to reduce the budget deficit while at the
same time protecting your academic programs. The
letter also asks that EastRamapo offic