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 that they need to function successfully outside...
The investigation — which critics say was long delayed because of politics — concluded that many of the religious schools, or yeshivas, were not providing “substantially equivalent instruction” in core subjects as do public schools — as mandated by state law.
The probe was sparked by complaints by a former student who said he was not provided the schooling necessary to navigate the outside world. He would later form a group called Young Advocates for Fair Education, which got the city’s Department of Education to launch an investigation in 2015. Hasidic Jews comprise one movement of Orthodox Judaism. And while the roughly 200,000 Hasidic Jews in New York City represent just a fraction of the city’s Jewish population, they have amassed considerable influence within the city’s power structure because of the community’s penchant for voting as a bloc.
Richard Bamberger, a representative of the group, told the New York Daily News on Friday that parents send their children to yeshivas because of the moral and religious approach taken by the schools. “For any school found to not be substantially equivalent,” NYC schools spokesperson Nathaniel Styer said in a statement, “the DOE stands ready to support the school to becoming substantially equivalent.”
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