Reply To: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo

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I do not know anyone that is moving from NYC to the 5 towns. Most young couples are moving to Lakewood or Monsey. There maybe new developments in the 5 towns but I am unaware of them. In Lakewood and Monsey you can always see new developments being built.

Two years ago there was 24,000 students in Lakewood 19,000 yeshiva and 5,000 public school. This year the monitor wanted to cancel courtesy busing and deny 10,000 students busing, assuming that a third of the student use courtesy busing. The yeshiva students went from 19,000 to 25,000 in two years( 30,000 minus 5,000 public school student = 25,000)or an increase of 3,000 per year.

There are more students entering yeshivas each year than there are public school student in all 12 grades in Lakewood and Monsey. Within 10 years this number will double as per Hank Greenberg the prior ERSD school monitor.