Yeshivas in Crown Heights, mostly affiliated with the Chabad chasidic movement, are requiring parents to sign a waiver allowing their children to be tested for Covid-19. Angering some parents, a joint ...
Due to the efforts of a determined group of Assembly members and Senator Sam Sutton, legislation was secured in the New York ...
Some ultra-Orthodox Jewish families have yanked their children out of yeshivas, and risked being shunned by their communities, to give their kids a chance at a better secular education. The efforts ...
As the years-long investigation into the city’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish yeshivas drags on, the New York State Education Department just released new guidelines that compel these schools to improve the ...
Recent guidelines issued by the New York State Department of Education – in response to an investigation on the curricula of chassidic institutions – have private schools statewide scrambling to ...
BOROUGHWIDE — A TUG OF WAR BETWEEN FOUR BROOKLYN YESHIVAS and the New York State Department of Education has led to a civil rights complaint for alleged discriminatory education review, according to a ...
(JTA) — Programs of Jewish study that break with the gender-segregated traditions of the Orthodox yeshiva are coming to Chicago and Washington. Hadar, the New York-based egalitarian yeshiva, announced ...
HILLBURN − Viola Elementary School is slated to be shuttered next academic year, a move to consolidate five current elementary schools into four as the public-school census continues to dwindle, even ...
Private schools in New York state — in particular those operated by various branches of Hasidic Judaism — will have to offer “substantially equivalent instruction” to that found in public schools, ...