Get Up, Stand Up: East Ramapo held its 8th protest of the summer outside the home of East Ramapo school district Treasurer Israel Bier’s home on Albert Drive in Monsey last night.
They called upon Federal authorities to arrest him in connection to the misappropriation of State and Federal funds the district has received, which they called “well-documented.”
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A fiscal monitor told the New York Education Department in November 2014 that he believed some form of state intervention was needed to repair school system and reverse bad decisions by the East Ramapo Board of Education.
“The district’s finances teeter on the edge of disaster,” Hank Greenberg wrote in his report, East Ramapo: A School District in Crisis.
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The district, which includes parts of the communities of New City, Pearl River, Nanuet, Spring Valley, Suffern, New Hempstead, Chestnut Ridge, Monsey and Wesley Hills, has 9,000 students in its schools. However, another 24,000 school-age children live there, and go to private schools—mostly yeshivas.
Legislation to appoint a monitor for East Ramapo passed the state Assembly in June but failed in the Senate, where Republican leaders work closely with the private-school and Ultra-Orthodox lobbies.
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