Sentences with phrase «private yeshivas»
"Private yeshivas" are religious schools that offer education primarily focused on Jewish studies and teachings. Full definition
Lakewood's 30,000 ultra-Orthodox students typically attend private yeshivas at their parents» expense but if they are classified as disabled the district provides services, which may include tuition to other schools.
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He had been seeking relief for private yeshivas from curriculum standards, and was refusing to support various priorities sought by New York City, including design - build authority for the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway and increasing the number of speed cameras in school zones.
And let's not forget East Ramapo, where the elected school board has been accused of diverting resources to the 24,000 students in private Yeshivas at the expense of the 9,000 predominantly low - income students of color who remain in the district schools.
In the East Ramapo School District there are 33,000 school children, 9,000 in public school and 24,000 in 60 private Yeshivas schools.
It's a district where the majority of children attend private Yeshivas.
Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder's demand that private yeshivas be exempted from meeting state standards for nonreligious instruction emerged as one of the last sticking points preventing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders from finalizing a $ 170 billion spending plan.
East Ramapo schools have suffered deep cuts to programs and staffing from the school board, which is controlled by the area's Orthodox Jewish community whose members send their children to private yeshivas.
The Assembly on Thursday passed an unusually contentious bill that would install a state «monitor» to oversee the district, which is run by a majority of Orthodox Jewish school board members whose constituency attends private yeshivas.
Community relations are fraught in East Ramapo, where representatives of a growing Orthodox Jewish population have gained a majority on the school board even though their children attend private yeshivas.
Of that, 24,000 attend private yeshivas.
Sen. Simcha Felder's demand that private yeshivas be exempted from meeting state standards for nonreligious instruction emerged as one of the last sticking points preventing Gov. Cuomo and legislative leaders from finalizing a $ 170 billion spending plan.
Felder said he burned his bridge with the governor when Cuomo jettisoned a tax credit that would have bolstered the private yeshivas used by his voters, and there's nothing he could say or do to sway him.
An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.
Some 24,000 attend private Yeshivas.
It was a particularly strong issue in the East Ramapo Central School District, where the school board has faced criticism for budgetary cutbacks, allegations of improper placement of special education students, and providing school materials to private yeshivas, among other complaints.
A private yeshiva, owned by congregation Ateres Yisroel, is now closed.
East Ramapo schools suffered deep cuts to programs and staffing from the local school board, which is controlled by the area's Orthodox Jewish community, whose members send their children to private yeshivas.