A bill that would establish a state monitor for the East Ramapo School District, where a school board dominated by Orthodox Jews has drawn criticism for diverting money from public schools to children in local yeshivas, faces an uncertain future after running into resistance in the New York Legislature.

The opposition has emerged in both legislative chambers, with the State Senate’s new majority leader saying that imposing such oversight on the district, in Rockland County, would set a dangerous precedent, and an Assembly member from Brooklyn who had supported the bill distancing himself from it while raising the specter of anti-Semitism.

In November, an investigation commissioned by the State Education Department concluded that the East Ramapo board had shown favoritism to Orthodox Jewish students who attend private schools in the area. It recommended that the state appoint a fiscal monitor with the authority to override the board’s decisions.

Roughly 9,000 students, the vast majority of them black or Latino, attend public schools in the district, while about 24,000 students who live there attend yeshivas. Because they vote in large numbers, Orthodox Jews have held a majority of board seats in East Ramapo since 2005. Since 2005, the board has made severe cuts to public schools, eliminating 445 positions; reducing full-day kindergarten to a half-day; and dropping half the district’s athletic programs and extracurricular activities, the state investigation found.