Bruce Singer News Today

"Who is going to help us if we aren't going to help ourselves," asked East Ramapo school board Trustee Sherry McGill.

The East Ramapo Board of Education held a special meeting Tuesday night.

A planned referendum to reduce costly universal busing was tabled after trustees expressed safety concerns.

Resort officials met with head of RCMP's I-Teams last month, with much of the focus around shortening response times to accidents on the Sea to Sky Highway

Shelley Jallow takes the state-appointed academic monitor position as Mary Fox-Alter leaves for Ossining schools.

Mary Fox-Alters departure comes on the heels of another budget defeat in East Ramapo.

Even if voters do agree to increase the tax levy May 16 ‒ something they havent passed in several years ‒ the financial perils are likely to grow.

The district had declined to rent space to private camps that serve children in the Orthodox Jewish community, citing needed building repairs.

East Ramapo was named the states most fiscally stressed school district by the comptroller. State monitors oversee the boards actions.

More than 70% of voters rejected the original budget that proposed a 3.9% tax levy hike. One trustee who blasted the earlier plan supports this one.