More students means greater transportation expenses for the district. The details here are critical: The monitor acknowledged that there was a massive influx of private school students to the district during this period. In the letter, Weissmandl's response to the criticism of the Board's above-average spending on transportation is as follows: Andrew Cuomo responding to Greenberg's report. 28, 2014, Yehuda Weissmandl, President of the Board of Education, sent a five-page letter to Gov. Spending increased every year from $22 million in 2009-10 to $27.3 million in 2013-14. Even as the Board was making drastic cuts to public school programs, it was increasing spending on transportation for nonpublic schools.From 2008-09 to 2013-14, transportation accounted for an average 11% of the district's total budget the statewide average over the same period was 5%.
From 2006-07 to 2013-14, the district's nonpublic school transportation costs increased by 76.6%, more than triple the statewide average increase of 24.1%.From 2006-07 to 2013-14, the district's overall transportation costs increased by 48.1%, more than double the statewide average increase of 21.9%.There are no mileage limits on transportation for all K-12 students ("universal busing").Many of the yeshiva bus routes are gender-segregated, resulting in more bus routes than would otherwise be needed. The district operates over 300 bus routes, transporting 9,000 public school students to 14 public schools and 23,500 nonpublic school students to more than 140 private schools, most of them yeshivas.17, 2014 report to the New York Commissioner of Education and the Board of Regents, " East Ramapo: A School District in Crisis," fiscal monitor Hank Greenberg made a number of observations about the East Ramapo Central School District's abnormally high transportation costs: