New York's new regulations for private schools now require teachers to demonstrate competence in the subjects they’re teaching and update requirements for instructional time in core subjects like math and social studies. Read more:
The new regulations follow a report alleging inadequate education at some Brooklyn yeshivas despite infusions of public money.The new regulations follow a report alleging inadequate education at some Brooklyn yeshivas despite infusions of public money.State education policymakers have approved new regulations requiring New York’s private schools give students a robust education, as allegations mount that some Hasidic yeshivas did not teach basic math, history, and English.
The paper also uncovered allegations of abusive behavior by teachers and failure to meet educational standards in secular instruction. Meanwhile, Hasidic boys' schools have received more than $1 billion in government funding in the last four years, according to the report. The state education department drafted the new rules in response to allegations, first raised in 2015, that more than two-dozen city yeshivas did not meet the threshold. The city's education department then found in 2019 that only two out of 28 yeshivas were providing students with an education “substantially equivalent” to one in public schools.
A lawsuit filed last year by the mother of a Brooklyn yeshiva student said her 8-year-old son had barely received instruction in English and that her older sons “were not taught any classes in American history, American government, civics, or voting.” That suit is ongoing. Notably absent from the Board of Regents vote were the protesters who reportedly gathered outside the state Education Department’s building in Albany on Monday while a subcommittee considered the new regulations, according to
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