Reply To: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo

The problem is NJ is broke and will not increase aid to the district and even though the STATE Monitor agreed to provide courtesy busing if the yeshivas agreed to a staggering starting and ending schedule, midyear since he didn’t get the projected saving he is cancelling the deal. If he didn’t get the projected saving in this case why do you think that co-ed busing will save the district money, especially if the yeshivas get together to insure that their the boy and girl yeshivas and public schools don’t start at the same time requiring separate buses.

As Far as a moratorium on Special Education, the problem is the board is time bound so if the public school district does respond to a request for special ed the district forfeits it’s right to fight the private placement.