It’s official: East Ramapo to get a fiscal monitor

Joseph Spector

The state Education Department today confirmed it will install a fiscal monitor for the troubled East Ramapo school district after Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the state to step up its oversight.

State Education Commissioner John King said in a statement that the fiscal monitor will be Albany attorney Hank Greenberg, a former counsel to Cuomo when the governor was attorney general.

“The department has been working closely with East Ramapo to try to address the district’s serious fiscal issues, and the appointment of a fiscal monitor is the next step in those efforts,” King said in a statement.

The move comes after local officials have pressed for state intervention in the Rockland County school district, which has been plagued by financial turmoil and political controversy.

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