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https://www.wnyc.org/story/federal-judge-says-east-ramapo-must-change-how-it-elects-its-school-board/a few arguments
orthodox cut funding to PS system
Orthodox added funding to private schools
argument by local orthodox: we cut voluntary PS funding like music lessons and diverted it to mandatory private school funding like transportation
the other option would be raise taxes which is already high
the budget is the way it is due to the bad wrong formula the state uses (Lakewood has the same issue) to evaluate how much money to give the district
Wrong Formulathe poor districts get more help then the rich as they need more help they cant afford
so how is it calculated? very simple
Total property value/Public School Students
problem is they don't count in private school students but they do count their property value, so Monsey turns out to be very rich according to this formula especially if most kids are private school students, which is a big problem
