By Kathy Kahn Music for children in elementary and middle school, access to more athletic programs and extracurricular activities and additional staffing have been voted down again in the East Ramapo School District, where more than 25,000 of its students attend private yeshivas, leaving 8 and a half thousand public school students to face more […]
BY JOEL GROSSBARTH The embattled East Ramapo School District has been entangled in a nasty legal fight with its own insurance company. The fight has culminated in a decision recently handed down by an appellate court in Brooklyn. In East Ramapo Central School District v. New York Schools Insurance Reciprocal, the insurance company issued a policy […]
Grant Valentine, a veteran parole officer, former candidate for state senate, and all-around pillar of the community, told the Rockland County Times he and several other concerned Rocklanders are working on creating the county’s first charter school. The school would be built in the Town of Ramapo and seek to provide another option for beleaguered […]
Assemblyman pushes for study to develop plan to create a new public school district PRESS RELEASE FROM ASSEMBLYMAN KENNETH ZEBROWSKI Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski (D-Rockland) announced today that he is proposing a redistricting of the current East Ramapo School District that will partition territory to create a new public school district that better represents public school […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School District. The meeting, which was chaired by L’tanya Watkins, Pedro […]