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Monitors Assigned to East Ramapo CSD
New York State Law requires the Commissioner of Education to appoint monitors to the East Ramapo Central School District (ERCSD). These monitors have responsibility for fiscal and academic oversight of the district. Our monitors worked with the Board of Education to develop a long-term strategic academic and fiscal improvement plan, which was approved by the Commissioner and is revised annually.
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Our Monitors
Dr. Shelley Jallow
Dr. Shelley Jallow was previously the State-appointed Monitor for the Rochester City School District. Prior to that, she served as Senior Director of School Improvement in the Learning Innovations Program at WestEd. Prior to joining WestEd, Dr. Jallow supervised, coached and mentored school and district leaders in school districts throughout New Jersey, representing low-performing elementary, middle, and high schools. Her work resulted in a state designation change from Priority Schools to Schools in Good Standing. Dr. Jallow’s classroom and administrative experience is vast, having served as a mathematics teacher, mathematics director, director of curriculum and instruction, chief academic officer, founding principal, assistant superintendent and deputy superintendent. She earned her doctorate in education at St. John Fisher College in Rochester.
Mr. Shawn Farr
Mr. Farr retired from the position of Chief Financial Officer of the Rochester City School District and had previously served as the Chief Financial Officer or Chief Operations Officer of numerous school districts, institutes of higher education, and not-for-profit organizations, and as special assistant to Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Education. Additionally, Mr. Farr worked with Dr. Jallow when she was the monitor assigned to the Rochester City School District.