Reply To: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo

Joseph: This year the monitor overruled the board and pushed through over a 6% increase to $129 million and although he made a deal with the yeshiva to allow courtesy busing for those living more than .6 miles he is breaking the deal unless he gets a $6.5 million budget increase. If he can’t stay on budget this year when it’s mid year and he already has a $9.5 deficit why do you expect next year to be any different.

I thought that the boy’s, girl’s and public schools school have different starting and ending times so they can’t be combined. If the judge does not issue a stay, then the parents will have to bring their children to school. The yeshivas should get together so that all students are mandated. The parent should get class action status on behalf of the 30,000 yeshiva students for theft or denial of service because of religion and at $3,000.00 per student that $90 million before punitive damages. There will be lawyer banging on door to get the business