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Zahavasdad, I understand that, but a lot people find that universal segregated busing is a luxury. The bottom line, I think on average, the tax increase per household would be a whopping 13 dollars a month.
Joseph, it seems to me you just dont want to support public education. This is the reason a lot of people fear the orthodox moving into their area. The rallying cry is “we dont want another ER”.
Zahavasdad, its county not country.
Joesph, Taxes as well as every other cost are high because we are a suburb of NYC. HMMM, it seems that every other district in our area including the districts in Rockland, Bergen and Westchester seem to vote for raising school taxes every year. I guess some people dont want to support public education even with a 2 percent tax cap.
nishtayng go the ER website and read the bulletin. This is the estimated money spent on the private school students for the upcoming school year. Of course you should also add any associated common charges for legal, accounting, clerical, building,etc.
Transportation 21m
Special Ed 12.6
Fed Idea .85
Title 1 11.8
Title 2 .3
Title 3 1.9
PREK 4.2
Books 2.2Joseph, you didnt answer my question, since ER has one of the lowest school tax rates in the county due to cuts in programs, do you think that this is right that ER students dont have the same programs as their neighboring districts?
The reason why I brought up the 2k per student because there are a lot of private school households who think they are getting nothing in return on their school taxes when in fact on average they maybe receiving more benefits than they are paying in taxes.
Joseph having one of the lowest tax rates is fine as long as you dont have to gut the public school programs to get there. Dont you think ER students deserve the same programs as their neighboring districts? I
I dont know the answer to how much is spent on programming for the public students, I would guess around 15k. But it can not be overlooked that the private school students are getting over 55 million in benefits. And still one of the lowest tax rates in Rockland.
What I havent seen mentioned here before is ER currently has one of the lowest school tax rates in the county. And according to one of the districts latest bulletins, ER private school students on average are receiving 2000 dollars in benefits per student. This includes money going toward busing, special ed., Title 1,2 ,3 etc..