New Rochelle Board of Education: Criminal Enterprise Masquerading as an Educational Institution – Part XXVII
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (May 24, 2025) — For eight months, I’ve been battling the City School District of New Rochelle to obtain public records that could expose new aspects of corruption in what I believe is a cover-up of corrupt, illegal student placements at Shrub Oak International School.
My three Freedom of Information Law requests, filed on Oct. 8, 2024, have been met with repeated delays, with the district citing the “voluminous nature” of the records and the need for redactions, pushing the latest due date to June 16, 2025.
Last October, based on records I had already obtained, I reported that the district spent $3,328,452.60 in violation of New York State law, sending students to Shrub Oak, a private, non-approved therapeutic school costing hundreds of thousands of dollars per student annually. This included $2,858,151.70 in tuition and $470,300.90 in transportation expenses, including costs for a 1:1 aide for one student.
Most of this spending occurred after the New York State Education Department issued explicit orders to cease new placements and discontinue existing ones.
