Reply To: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo

gavra: If the State doesn’t give the town additional education funds, it will inevitably force further cuts in non-mandatory public school programs and courses. Even if you cut all non-mandatory courtesy busing, there is still a major ongoing annual deficit in the school budget. And legally taxes cannot be raised without local voter consent, which as you see isn’t happening. So the only possibility left is to cut all non-mandatory services, most of which (by far) comes from public school children.