The governor has signed a bill to give the East Ramapo Central School District monitors the ability to override various actions by the Board of Education and gives them better access to district records. Rockland state senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick sponsored the bill, and says the new law will help give the district’s under-served students a better education…
The method of voting for the board in East Ramapo was changed earlier this year from an at-large system to one that is ward-based after legal action was filed by the local NAACP claiming the old system was unfair.