The
Lower Hudson Journal News reports that on Monday, a New York federal district court dismissed a number of claims in a class action lawsuit against East Ramapo, NY school officials, but allowed key claims to move ahead. According to the report:
The lawsuit can now confront several of the most divisive issues in East Ramapo, including the placement of Hasidic and other Orthodox [Jewish] students in private special-education schools at public expense, the alleged purchase of religious textbooks for private schools, and whether the school board tried to sell two schools at below-market rates.
[The judge] also allowed the lawsuit to look at whether the school board hired Long Island-based lawyer Albert D’Agostino in 2009 as part of a conspiracy to place special-education students in private schools in a manner that forfeits state reimbursements.
The school district has long had tension between public school parents and the school board which they accuse of favoring Orthodox Jewish private schools. (See
prior posting.)
