Reply To: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo

The district’s school budget is over $224 million, the state is going to give another $3 million to improve the public schools. While the state monitor has control over the $3 million the board of Ed. can use the $224 million school budget as it sees fit as long as it provides the bare minimum of education. Basically the monitor has “Veto power” over $3 million which is less then 2% of the school budget.

While dividing the district into a frum and public school district is possible. The state would have to force the surrounding district to merge these public school students into their district. Another solution is to merge all the surrounding districts so that yeshiva students are outnumbered. Any of these ideas are highly unlikely as the voters wouldn’t want the merger.