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East Ramapo announces mid-year teacher layoffs, combined classrooms

February 16, 2021 by Michael Castelluccio

“While the district has touted staffing and programming additions in recent years, the district had 332 fewer staff positions in the 2018-2019 school year compared to 2008-2009, when cuts kicked in.

From The Journal News

East Ramapo interim Superintendent Raymond Giamartino Jr. on Monday confirmed that the district planned to lay off teachers and combine classrooms, an unusual mid-year move that adds even more disruption to a year that’s seen buildings repeatedly shut by COVID-19 cases.

Giamartino pinned the blame for cuts on the current contingency budget, which limits how the district can spend, and the millions of dollars invested in a legal defense on behalf of the district during a federal civil rights court challenge brought by the Spring Valley NAACP – a case the district ultimately lost. [Read more…]

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VOTE! Special Election–East Ramapo School Board

January 14, 2021 by Michael Castelluccio

Ward 1 Ashley Leveille

Ward 2 Sabrina Charles-Pierre

Ward 3 Sherry McGill

Ward 9 Brenda Carole Anderson

 

Linda Valentine Ward 4 (Please Write in Linda’s name)
Robert Romanowski in Ward 6 [Read more…]

Filed Under: East Ramapo Central School District, Uncategorized

Mail-in Ballots in Rockland

September 18, 2020 by Michael Castelluccio

For all voters in Rockland County, here are the procedures and contacts to get your absentee ballot to vote in the presidential election in November.

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Substantial Equivalency and Rally at the Legislature

September 3, 2019 by Michael Castelluccio

From Preserve Ramapo Sept. 2:

We want to bring your attention to two initiatives that are
currently underway.

1.) Rally at the Legislature.

There will be a rally in front of the Rockland legislative office building
in New City at 6:15 PM, tomorrow evening, Tuesday Sept. 6th to protest Legislator Aron Weider for his habitual practice of crying anti-Semitism.

We will gather outside the Legislative building to hold our protest at 6:15 PM and then move into the legislative chambers to attend the meeting of the Legislature beginning at 7:00 PM. Our intent is to make use of the public comment period held at the end of the meeting to speak out about the corrosive and divisive practice of using the charge of anti-Semitism to stifle legitimate political debate. [Read more…]

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Tuesday Elect Eric Goodwin and Ashley Leveille for East Ramapo School Board

May 19, 2019 by Michael Castelluccio

On Tuesday, May 21, please go out and vote for Eric Goodwin and Ashley Leveille for positions on the East Ramapo School Board.

Please note that you will have to write in Eric’s name in the space on the ballot marked Write In. After you have written in his name make sure that you also fill in the oval space next to the name. The marked oval is needed to count your vote. For Ashley you only have to fill in the oval. SEE BELOW:

Filed Under: 2019 Election, East Ramapo Central School District, Uncategorized

SAM Party Reps at Suffern Library April 4

March 22, 2019 by Michael Castelluccio

For a copy of the Petition for the Fall Election, please click here.

 

SAM Invitation

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Legislator Aron Wieder, educators speak out against yeshiva oversight

February 27, 2019 by Michael Castelluccio

Rockland County Legislator Aron Wieder speaks about issues of public and private school equivalency at Yeshiva Degel Hatorah in Spring Valley Feb. 26, 2019. At left is the school’s principal, Rabbi Moshe Schwab. (Photo: Peter Carr/The Journal News)

“Educators at a boys yeshiva said Tuesday that the state’s guidelines for a substantially equivalent education would be prohibitive to their students’ studies.

“It infringes on our religious rights,” said Rabbi Moshe Schwab, the principal of Yeshiva Degel HaTorah. “We’re begging the commissioner to reconsider because … it’s going to infringe on the good educational system that we have. We know we have to have equivalency and we think we not only have equivalent, we’re superior.”

His pleas were targeted at a previously ignored 70-year-old law stating private school education needs to be “substantially equivalent” to public school, which gained traction a few years ago when state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia updated guidelines to enforce it. [Read more…]

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Ramapo mulls future for multiple properties amid deficit, development issues

January 9, 2019 by Michael Castelluccio

The Suffern Quarry Image courtesy Rosspilot

“Town officials continue to wrestle with the future of properties once bought for profit and for green and historic preservation as part of an ambitious plan to prevent development.

With the town facing an estimated $8.5 million deficit, officials are contending with new financial realities as demands for more housing clash with demands for open space.

On Monday night, five of those dozens of properties were discussed during a public hearing that lasted several hours and was attended by dozens of residents who packed Ramapo Town Hall. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Open Space Properties, Overdevelopment, Uncategorized

State pulls monitor overseeing Ramapo building inspectors; says minimum requirement met

December 26, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski announce plans to immediately inspect private schools for building code and fire safety on May 26, 2016. (Photo: Ricky Flores/The Journal News)

“A state monitor assigned nearly two years ago to oversee the town fire and safety inspections and building department administration has been pulled from Town Hall.

After assigning the oversight in response to years of complaints about Ramapo’s deficient enforcement of fire safety and building codes, the state has determined the Ramapo Building Department has shown improvement and now meets the minimum standards.

“”As far as I am concerned, they signed the death warrant for residents and firefighters.” Justin Schwartz

FINAL REPORT: State removes building department monitor

LETTER: State releases Ramapo monitor

LETTER: Zebrowski, Jaffee and Carlucci write the state concerned about safety of residents

[Read more…]

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Ramapo judge signs order supporting move to close illegal school

December 4, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

“A state Supreme Court judge has ordered the closure of a Route 306 private school operating without town approvals, but town officials said the school’s appeal will stall emptying the modular classrooms of students.

Congregation Bais Chinuch Ateres Bnos — which has been subject to fire and safety code violations — has been teaching more than 300 students for more than a year at 261 Route 306 without town permits and site plan approval.

The school’s two-year temporary certificate of occupancy expired Sept. 30, 2017. [Read more…]

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