The latest set of rules will have major impacts on how yeshivos have operated in the postwar era
been over three years since the New York State Education Department first tried to spread its regulatory net over private schools but ran up against a wall of 140,000 comments. The latest iteration of that effort is now here. The department’s newest revised set of regulations has been out for a month, and the public has until May 30, less than four weeks away, to comment on it.
Orthodox Jewish groups objected to the previous set of revisions, which called for private schools to provide more than four hours of daily secular studies in order to meet the legal threshold of being “substantially equivalent” to state public schools. That requirement was dropped in this round and replaced with a basket of six options.
Orthodox parents still have five reasons to worry about the latest set of rules, which will have major impacts on how yeshivos have operated in the postwar era.
To Agudath Israel’s Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, the greatest apprehension is that yeshivos would, for the first time, be required to cede control over their operations to the state education bureaucracy.
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