zahavasdad
To create a school district you need a law sometimes called an act, to be passed by both the State’s Assembly and Senate and signed by the Governor. The chances are slim that this will happen. While it took three times for it to happen in Kiryat Joel we now have a blueprint as to how to do it constitutionally as this was litigated in both state and federal courts and most state law don’t vary from state to state.
As to the difficulty in designing the district so it doesn’t include public school students. Many of the new developments such as Westgate which are fully frum, so they have no public school students. And there are many senior communities which don’t allow children, they would want the lower real estate taxes which they would get due to fact they are not paying to educate thousands of kids. Just maybe a hundred special ed. kids. So it is possible although not probable.
2016 is an election year and with the right incentive the politicians may pass the act creating a Jewish Lakewood school district.
As far as razing their homes in Lakewood I think it highly unlikely. However there was a case in LI Grumman Aircraft destroyed their own building in order to get a reduction in real estate taxes after they closed a production line. I don’t know if the Jews moved out of Lakewood would someone else move in. In Newark ,NJ and Jersey City, it has been over 50 years since the riots and it just started to make a come back even though it is close to Manhattan, has mass transit to NYC, and a view of the Hudson River and Manhattan skyline. What make you think that Lakewood would be more desirable? When razing the homes care should be taken not to rupture any home oil tanks as they will contaminate the soil. This maybe why the land will be vacant.
Does anyone know whether the state law that allowed the NJ state monitor to takeover the school board is even constitutional as it allows a bureaucrat to override an elected school board and is taxation without representation? Was it ever challenged in court?