The lakewood BOE acknowledged the Lawsuit brought by R Aaron Lang at their board meeting on Wednesday. District officials and the board attorney ripped into the judges response calling it FOR SHAME and out of touch with the facts. They encouraged Reb Aaron Lang to keep on fighting to change the funding formula for Lakewood. Officials pointed out inaccuracies in the ruling by judge Scarola such as the recommendation that lakewood spend less on busing, even though the town has not spent a dollar for courtesy busing since 5 years ago. The judge also said that the town should raise taxes more than 2%. District officials said it would have to be a 60% increase which means people would see their annual taxes go up by 2000 to 3000 dollars. The Judge also said that the district place special needs children within in district schools and not spend more by sending them out of district schools. The officials said that even if they did that the parents have the right to object and can keep their child in the current school it would end up in expensive litigation. Through the meeting the judges ruling was called out for shame for shame
Notice how they didn't defend the base salary of $750k for a part time job for the board attorney. He gets ontop of that if he has to litigate or defend the township.
ReplyDeleteIf you knew the history with the board and its attorney you would know that BOE is saving lots and lots of money by keeping this attorney on its payroll and not letting this attorney sue the board by being a outsider.
DeleteObviously you either chose the ignore this known fact or your “pencils are not sharpened”.
Of course the BOE says "For Shame!" The BOE is the big loser here. The judge's ruling mimics exactly what R' Aaron has been telling us when the state presented mountains of evidence of BOE waste, bad decisions and mismanagement. R' Aaron and the kids he represents are the big winners.
ReplyDeleteThe state has to do something to fix Lakewood and all options are on the table. A finding that the state is not providing a constitutional education in any district, whomever is to blame, is a huge win for all the children of Lakewood, and hopefully, and most likely in the end, for the taxpayers.
Why is lakewood still voting for this BOE members?
DeleteWhy is no one questioning the 1200-1500 increase per year in ps enrollment when low income housing is disappearing in lkwd perhaps proof of address should be more than an envelope addressed to you
ReplyDeleteIt is job security for the teachers no one wants to touch or investigate this.
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