Eighteen private Jewish schools run by New York City’s politically powerful Hasidic community deprived thousands of students the required secular education in English, math, science and social studies
FILE - Members of the ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities protest before a Board of Regents meeting to vote on new requirements that private schools teach English, math science and history to high school students, Sept. 12, 2022, outside the New York State Education Department Building in Albany, N.Y.
A review of more than two dozen yeshivas, which receive hundreds of millions public funding, determined that only seven of those schools were in compliance with state rules. But the investigation was conducted in fits and starts, as Hasidic leaders used political muscle to push back against any intrusions into their community, which is concentrated in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg.
But Weber suggested some of the schools deemed compliant were not reviewed adequately and that students in those schools “will continue to be deprived of a basic education.”
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