Sentences with phrase «over yeshivas»

The battle over yeshivas appeared to be caught in political tug of war between the GOP - controlled Senate and Democratic - led Assembly.

While they worked to resolve the impasse over the yeshiva issue, Cuomo and legislative leaders appeared to reach agreements on most other issues, including the crucial issue of education spending.

Not exact matches

Over the next four decades, the two jointly built and sustained the most influential Hesder yeshiva.

Fights over a new fee on opioid sales, school safety issues, education requirements for yeshivas and the amount of taxes that should be extracted from a major health insurance sale remained some of the sticking points late Thursday in efforts to finalize a $ 168 billion 2018 - 19 state budget.

In April, state Senator Simcha Felder (D — Brooklyn) refused to sign off on the state budget unless yeshivas, which accept millions of dollars in government funding, were given more autonomy over curricula.

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

A politically charged battle over whether some Jewish yeshivas provide an adequate secular education heats up.

Richardson said she was tired and sleep - deprived because Felder briefly held up passage of the state budget last week in a spat over the regulation of yeshivas.

The group's executive director, Naftuli Moster, a 2005 graduate from a yeshiva in Brooklyn, said Thursday that he chose to put the billboard over the tunnel in order to get the mayor's attention.

He was criticized for holding up agreement on the $ 168 billion budget last month in a dispute over state regulation of yeshivas.

The Republican - led state Senate, for its part, maintained the holdup was not over state Sen. Simcha Felder — a Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans — or yeshivas as the governor and the Democratic - led state Assembly said but over the Assembly's push for a pay raise.