The East Ramapo Stakeholders are a coalition of parents, teachers, students, alumni and community members.
We are dedicated to ensuring that the children of East Ramapo are provided with a quality education and the resources necessary to thrive and succeed.
We work to promote the importance of public education and an open dialogue between the ERCSD Administration, school board members and the community.
Our candidates represent the diverse East Ramapo community and have a stake in the education of our children.
THE 2011 PLATFORM:
ACCOUNTABILITY ensuring that educators provide results that enable our children to succeed.
QUALITY EDUCATION for all children is our #1 priority!
FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY to ensure fairness to taxpayers as well as students.
TRUST AND TRANSPARENCY giving everyone access to information and a voice at the table.
OUR MISSION:
- To ensure the provision of adequate resources for public schools.
- To ensure that our school district is governed by the consent of the people who use the public schools.
- To explore legal alternatives for adequate funding of schools.
- To ensure our school board represents a wide cross section of our public school community.
- To identify and support individuals for school board elections.
- To influence policy of those currently serving on the school board to serve the public school children.
- To unify the community served by our public schools.
Contact info:
Stakeholders Chairperson: Steve White ste...@poweroften.us
Webmaster: i...@poweroften.us
#1 by Marilyn Leybra on March 30, 2011 - 10:29 am
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As a “community member” my only interest is fairness to taxpayers up against two forces after more & more taxpayer money. One, a special-interest School Board using taxpayer money without discretion such as hiring an outrageously high-priced arrogant, non-local atty of their personal choosing & on the other side parents crying for all kinds of non-academic extras for the school to make available for their children.
How much more money can be bled from property owners in economic hardship (to even being on the verge of loosing their property) to finance this out-of-control so-called FREE public school system has got to be changed to a more realistic system. Such as, extra curricula & non academic courses being partially paid for by those parents that want them would be a good beginning to a more realistic financially viable system.
It’s obvious State monies are no longer a dependable resource & only so much blood can be squeezed out of a rock, such as local properties owners. A new system for financing pre-college education is necessary.
#2 by Don Jones on April 8, 2011 - 11:58 pm
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Would it not just be easier to campaign to split part of the district off? Could parts of the district that are predominately public either form a new district or merge with another?
#3 by Stephanie Wells on April 21, 2011 - 3:07 pm
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Let the parochial schools be paid for by the recepients of that education, and allow the public school students access to a quality education paid for by their families tax dollars. Tax exempt religious affiliations should not be relyng on the hard working tax payers in their district to fund their special needs. It creates an unbalanced education system, and penalizes those students whose families do not qualify for religious exemptions for tax purposes. Let us do right for ALL OF OUR CHILDREN. Politics has no place in the education system. Let us think of our CHILDREN first, and banish the dichotomy of tax exempt versus tax payers educational needs and funding.
#4 by Ben on May 11, 2011 - 4:54 pm
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I would very much like to know what the positions of the candidates are in reference to actions by the current Board. What is the plan they (the candidates) would invoke or recommend. In the descriptions I see people , however well intentioned, not qualified or in a past life where part of a government machine that created issues like those that face us now.
I for one will not vote yes for a budget until I see a clear picture of how monies are to be spent.
Education is not day care, a food bank, to teach morals, or a stadium; it is to teach and educate, to prepare these kids for jobs and perhaps college, thats all. Lets get rid of all the empty programs and phony titles and get on with education.
#5 by Peggy Hatton on May 12, 2011 - 12:46 am
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Ben, I understand your concern about how the money is being spent. Team HALT plans on doing a forensic audit of the district finances as well as bidding out contracts to make sure we are getting the best price for services.
I personally did not work as part of a government machine. I worked for a very large Hospital of over 4,000 employees. I understand that the business practices are not up to standard and we will work to fix that.
Give us a chance, we care about the student’s achievement and we are also tax payers and want the money spent wisely. We don’t have any hidden agenda and aren’t looking to get jobs for ourselves or our family members. None of us own businesses that would benefit from any contract. We will be open and honest.