By Barry Warner “I have good news for your story from last year to this year. I came to the East Ramapo Central School District on November 2, 2015. The direction was to come to the district and to improve or to work with the staff, the community and school board to improve student achievement […]
BY BARRY WARNER School Superintendent Deborah Wortham is knowledgeable of the best practices for maximizing student achievement and is supportive of the teachers in the district. She must listen and take into account differing viewpoints of various constituencies and then make the best educational decisions. “We believe that the initiatives we started in 2016 in […]
BY SENATOR DAVID CARLUCCI The East Ramapo Central School District is owed $208,311 in federal funding after an error was admittedly made by the State Education Department (SED) for the 2017-2018 school year. This funding is critical to the largely minority district, which has been suffering financially due to unique circumstances. While we were able […]
By Kathy Kahn What little is left of the original bucolic Town of Ramapo and its tattered school district, East Ramapo, is a scenario that may be the same fate of a municipality in neighboring Orange County. In 1977, the Town of Monroe permitted an all-Satmar Hasidic Village to be created within the town’s borders, […]
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 […]
From the Office of Senator David Carlucci NEW CITY– As efforts to improve the schools in the East Ramapo District continue, Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester) announced he has secured $70,000 of State funds to rebuild the playground at Summit Park Elementary School. “Rebuilding the playground at Summit Park Elementary School will help the teachers and […]