Over 500 East Ramapo employees paid $100k despite program cuts

Over 500 East Ramapo employees paid $100k despite program cuts | EAGnews.org:
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. – It’s obviously good to be an employee in New York’s East Ramapo school district – at least for those who haven’t been laid off.
Money-flyingMore than 500 of them were paid salaries of more than $100,000 in 2014-15, despite the fact that the school district has been in a chronic state of financial emergency for several years.
But it’s clearly not so great to be a student at East Ramapo.
Hundreds of their teachers were laid off in recent years, according to media reports. Kindergarten was reduced to a half-day program, the number of high school elective classes and foreign language classes were reduced, and summer school programs were cut.
Many student extracurricular activities, including middle school athletics, were eliminated.
Student proficiency scores on state tests have lagged well behind the state average in most categories, and the graduation rate has been similarly dismal.
The January the East Ramapo district was named New York’s sixth most financially stressed school district, according to News 12 Westchester..."