June 29, 2015 The day after the New York bill to appoint a monitor for the East Ramapo School Board had died in the Senate, those opposing the oversight were congratulating themselves online with the kind of bravado that seemed to include great relief that the fire had been put out. At the same time, there was a groundswell of recriminations directed at the Senate Republicans who had refused to bring the proposed bill up for a vote. Also Friday morning, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Chancellor of the Board of Regents, Merryl Tisch, was calling for the resignation of the East Ramapo Superintendent of Schools Joel Klein. Two days later, on Sunday morning, a large group of parents accompanied by Channel 12 News gathered in front of Klein’s home in New City calling for the Superintendent’s resignation. Standing on the side, attracting very little notice, was the agent who had helped engineer the killing of the bill. [Read more…]