State delays action on 2 East Ramapo complaints
Photo credit: Meghan E. Murphy | Art teacher Angel Harring holds up a sign to protest possible cuts to the arts at East Ramapo schools. More than a hundred residents packed a meeting to call on the school board not to cut arts, music and kindergarten programs to close a budget deficit that Superintendent Joel Klein estimated to be $8 million. State officials on Friday sent the district a letter demanding that it get its finances in order. (Dec. 4, 2012)
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The state education commissioner refused late last week to immediately intervene in two petitions brought by residents against the East Ramapo School Board.
One petition sought to stop the board from using taxpayer dollars to defend itself in a lawsuit, and the other wants to bar the board from making drastic cuts to school programs.
"I'm disappointed," said Steven White, a petitioner...
