Reply To: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo

Cutting Courtesy Busing will save the district at most $4.5 million ($450 {assuming $900 per year there are 4 months to the end of the school year} per student for 10,000 student) leaving a $5 million deficit for this year.

The question is how many mandated school bus yeshiva students will there be next school year. The more mandated students the less funds there are for public school students and with no budget increases and lawsuits from both the board of education and the yeshiva parents, the school maybe in a worse financial position then they were at the beginning of the year.