The Commentator 4-7-14 Jews In Power Need to Act Responsibly

Our Education Problem

By Daniel Atwood • Published: April 7, 2014 • Comment (7)

Jews living in the United States in the 21st century are afforded with nearly historically unprecedented opportunities. Not only is discrimination based on anti-Semitism illegal, but Jews have risen to the highest rungs of society. Many Jews, including Orthodox Jews, feel compelled by the doctrines of Tikkun Olam, advancing society, and have thus gotten involved in the political process, at both the national and local levels. We have the golden opportunity to be the bearers of real progress and change in society, something our great-grandparents could have never dreamed of.

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JTA 4-8-14, Orthodox Social Justice Group joins East Ramapo protest

The Orthodox Jewish Social Justice group, Uri L’Tzedek has joined a rally to request greater State oversight of the East Ramapo school board, the majority of whose members are haredi Orthodox Jews. 

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Jewish Week 4-7-14- Clergy join East Ramapo Schools Fight

 East Ramapo Schools Fight

Orthodox social action group Uri L’Tzedek joins call for state oversight of haredi-controlled school district.

04/07/14

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An Orthodox social justice group has joined the call for state intervention in the East Ramapo school district, where the haredi-controlled board is accused of siphoning taxpayer money to private yeshivas.

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Will Cuomo Hear East Ramapo & Step in to Help?

Now that Gov. Cuomo has set forth his educational agenda, he may have difficulty continuing to ignore the pleas of parents, teachers, community organizers and now the clergy to step in and oversee the East Ramapo School Board’s actions.  See the following Journal News article.

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NY Times: East Ramapo School Board Overlooks its Obligations

 

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A School Board That Overlooks Its Obligation to Students

APRIL 7, 2014

 Betty Carmand and her son Sebastian Leak, an East Ramapo student. Credit Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

 By MICHAEL POWELL

SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — A principal leans across the table at a pizza parlor and, with whispered intensity, totals up the damage done to the East Ramapo Central School District in recent years.

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East Ramapo Board to Appeal Court Decision re Special Ed Placements

The East Ramapo school board has decided to appeal the Dec. 30/13 decision of the State Supreme Court ruling that it had breached the law in placing students with special educational needs in private religious schools rather than public school programs. 

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East Ramapo School Board Loses Appeal re Insurance

In an appeal before the Supreme Court from an NYSIR decision, the court affirmed that the East Ramapo School Board’s actions in the District are not covered under its insurance policy.  The full decision can be seen below.

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