NEW CITY – Rockland County Executive Edwin Day threatened to shut a private school at 200 Summit Park Road in the Town of Ramapo if students continue to be exposed to unsafe conditions.
County health officials will continue to monitor the situation.
Ateres Bais Yaakov Academy opened under a temporary certificate of occupancy granted by town officials, who perform inspections for the Village of New Hempstead.
Day was incensed by the conditions at the school.
“Where else could you have a school open with no permanent source of water, no certified electricity, and a fake fire hydrant, which we confirmed today,” the county exec said on Monday. “Not only did the Town of Ramapo fail to do its job, but the state monitor that was specifically was put in place to make sure that Ramapo did its job, also failed. It’s a monitor who failed to monitor.”
Day said the school should have never opened.
Day said county health inspectors who were onsite Monday found no students there. He said the county will use “every power it has to make sure that these 400 students are safe.”
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