NEW YORK (VINnews) — New York State’s Education Department (NYSED) has imposed a deadline for New York City to complete its investigations into yeshivas.
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The NYSED set a six month deadline for the city to complete its probes into dozens of Charedi yeshivas.
Commissioner of Education Betty Rosa, who has targeted yeshivas for years, gave officials until the end of June to submit “detailed determinations/recommendations” about the quality of secular education in the yeshivas, according to the Daily News.
The investigations began under Mayor Bill deBlasio, however they are ongoing and have not been completed.
The newspaper also referenced a certain yeshiva in Williamsburg, which last summer was sued by the head of YAFFED, the anti-yeshiva group that has pressured Albany to impose harsh restrictions on yeshiva education. Supreme Court Judge Adam Silverman ordered the education departments to complete their investigations into the yeshiva within a few months.
The city found the yeshiva was in compliance with state law requiring “substantially equivalent” educational standards to public schools.
However the state claimed there was a lack of evidence to support the city’s conclusion, and ordered local officials to develop a plan in conjunction with the yeshiva to comply with state law.
If our education is substandard, then why is Spanish always offered as an option when you call a govt agency, shouldn’t they offer Yiddish? This proves that our chedarim offer an education that prepares our children for life in an English environment, whereas our public schools do not prepare the children with proper English language skills.
So why are they picking on us?
sorry but i graduated high school in a chasidic yeshiva and got a great job on wall street with many promotions
“The city found the yeshiva was in compliance with state law requiring “substantially equivalent” educational standards to public schools”
if you compare any education a yeshiva gives to what goes on in the public school system, the yeshivos are defiantly in compliance
I’ve been doing math homework just now
With my third grader
Difficult and pointless
Totally circular and idiotic way of learning math
Common core is a bunch of garbage
Honestly much of what is being taught in the many many years of school is nice to know if you want, but not needed to lead a successful life
I think Jewish schools should make sure though, that students know basic math and reading skills. Everything else, they could always learn when they are older if they need. Math and reading are fundamental. Why is it the governments business if my kids does or doesn’t learn about what type of rocks or what mitochondria does.
Vote Zeldin
In the 1990s (or maybe the early 2000s) the Flatbush Jewish Journal (a Chareidi newspaper based in Brooklyn) interviewed Rabbi Yisroel HaLevi Belsky (ZTL ZYA).
In this interview “Rabbi Belsky bemoaned the lack of advanced mathematical education in yeshivahs”.
The word “bemoaned” means that he wished that yeshivahs taught more advanced mathematics.
When Rabbi Belsky filled out his income tax forms, he claimed that his profession was “math teacher”.
When Rabbi Pam (ZTL ZYA) filled out his income tax forms, he also claimed that his profession was “math teacher”.
Both Rabbis served as Rosh HaYeshivah of Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn.
All this is a way to deflect from the real problem NYS public schools aren’t educating their students. With a 40-50 per cent non graduation ratio and the need to dumb down colleges and give remedial eduction to entering freshman they are taking to spot light off themselves
The misyaffedim can try whatever plans they try to destroy our heillger yeshivos. Like the communists, Bundists, reformers, Maskilim etc. of the past, they will fail. Also, the founder of yaffed, who is well into the 4th decade of his life should finally get a job. This is what he promised his wife to do decades ago when he signed the kesubah!
We had our chance to vote for zeldin .
Which is “the newspaper” refrred to in the article?
Thanks to satmar and skver hochul is targeting all Jews. Never donate to those cults
Everyone knows thay the secular education at our chasidesh yeshivas are a joke and to claim otherwise is a lack of emes and pure sheker.
Why are secular subjects an essential part of an education? Do you ever notice how many poor souls have to beg for money? No education, no parnossa. It is that simple. Sure there are exceptions to the rule, but these are exceptions. Our young people our being cheated out of the ability to support themselves. It is a pity.
Please agudah to the rescue.
9th graders and surely 7th at chasidish and yeshivish schools can’t learn torah all day. They just don’t have zits fleish. So what’s the sin in teaching some secular education vetted by the school? To the contrary if they don’t have that structure they are taught to be batlonim bec they aren’t learning. so why aren’t we doing that
Trumpistin.
Better if Rosa kept to cleaning toilets or working in a grocery