| 15,880 districts in 50 states: East Ramapo is the microcosm for what is happening in America to local districts everywhere, as public education --the road to opportunity in America is eviscerated. A monitor chosen by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently accused the East Ramapo school board in Rockland County, which is dominated by Orthodox Jews who send their children to private yeshivas, of systematically starving the public schools in favor of the yeshivas. The school board fired back, saying it was the state that was starving the district, effectively forcing a cut of 200 teachers, a reduction from full-day to half-day kindergarten and a shrinking of sports and other extracurricular activities.
The truth is that the man you see in the photo is representative of the pUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD that has ended a once successful school district...because nobody is watching the destruction. |
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