Special Reports:
- www.lohud.com/eastramapo
- WBEZ This American Life “A Not So Simple Majority“
Articles:
- Rancor Where Private School Parents Make Public School Decisions (NY Times – 4/25/2009)
- NYTimes: Board’s Hiring Sets Off a School War (New York Times – 12/6/2009)
- School Fight Gets Heated (WSJ – 2011)
- New York Magazine Article: Them and Them
- AP (carried nationally in hundreds of papers) Barbs of racism, anti-Semitism in NY school clash
- Jewish Paper Worries of Violence in East Ramapo (Rockland Journal News – 10/21/2010)
- Bias Feared in Public School Proposal To Absorb Yiddish Special Ed Program (Jewish Daily Forward – 1/17/2011)
- East Ramapo Central School District – Parents Take on the Board (Includes Video Statement from local NAACP President Willie Trotman) (Ramapo Times – 3/29/2010)
- Preserve Ramapo: Slumlord Sits on East Ramapo School Board and Spring Valley Zoning Board
- NY Daily News: East Ramapo district school board lawyer Christopher Kirby launches into profanity-laced tirade at parents
- UK Daily Mail: Shocking video shows school’s attorney screaming obscenities in parking lot at mother who thought he had laughed at her special needs son at board meeting
- Juvenile Justice: Public Kid vs. Private Kid Divide in One New York Community Turns Dangerous
- Attorney general probing East Ramapo real estate dealings
Editorials:
- An excellent analysis of the implications of the failed budget was published in the Journal News
- State must help East Ramapo’s Kids
- Letter to the Editor from Peggy Hatton in Journal News
- The Journal News Community View: East Ramapo board a symptom of community’s segregation
- East Ramapo Still Employing Tainted Law Firm
- Diane Ravitch: When a Religious Sect Took Over the Public Schools
Television:
- NBC News coverage of the 2011 East Ramapo School Board Election
- CBS News on Closing Kindergarten
- PIX News on Closing Kindergarten
- Channel 12 News coverage of Ramapo High School Demonstration to stop the firing of Assistant Superintendent Pedro Santana
- ABC News: School board to hire new lawyer after hostile exchange
- NBC News: School Board Fires Lawyer After Expletive-Laced Tirade Caught on Video
Radio:
- The Brian Lehrer Show: State of Education
- NPR Radio interview: Rockland County Conflict
YouTube:
- Shocking Video of Attorney for ERCSD
- They Steal from you while you are sleeping . . . at 1AM (meeting emerges from Executive Session at 12:40am to vote for “new lawyer”) (2009)
- The have declared war on the public (2009)
- Stop the Charade in East Ramapo (Watch the whole thing) (2010)
- East Ramapo Lorenzo Labitigan (Student @ Yale) speaks before being attacked by Attorney D’Agostino (2010)