Once again, Lakewood’s famous special education school is in the news. NJ Education Report has extensively covered the School for Children with Hidden Intelligence (SCHI), mainly because the city school district forks over immense amounts of money every year in tuition to a thinly-veiled yeshiva for ultra-Orthodox children with disabilities: during the school year 2020-2021, the total was $32,499,860.
Money is also driving current headlines about SCHI but in this case it’s whether Executive Director Rabbi Osher Eisemann who has been on a rollercoaster of court verdicts:
And now, miraculously, a former SCHI bookkeeper has testified that she made an “accounting error” and mistakenly listed a $200,000 payment to Eisemann. In fact, Eisemann’s lawyer argues, SCHI actually owes the Rabbi $300,000!
What’s fact and what’s fiction? We’ll wait with bated breath. Meanwhile, Thursday’s Lakewood Board of Education meeting agenda includes one student’s annual tuition to SCHI for $157,491.95 (not including transportation).
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