Reply To: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo

This additional $3 million,is the cost of the three state monitors included or not. Each monitor’s salary is about $175,000.00 when fringe benefits and indirect payroll expenses are added to it plus supporting staff, there is not much left that can be spent on the students.

Even if the monitors are funded separately, school busing for the additional yeshiva students may siphon off a significant portion of this. But even without that $3 million in additional funding is a drop in the bucket when it comes to this district’s financial problems. For example this may fund for patching the roofs to prevent leaks when a new roof is needed, all that’s going to happen is that more leaks will develop. The district needs an additional $60 million a year for at least 3 years in order to fix most of their buildings and provide adequate staffing to properly teach the public school students while at the same time providing yeshiva students with the current level of service.