Sentences with phrase «ultra-orthodox yeshivas»

Activists have long complained that some ultra-Orthodox yeshivas, a small fraction of the larger yeshiva community, are barely teaching English in their schools and are producing graduates who are not ready to enter the workforce.

A group representing parents and former students at ultra-Orthodox yeshivas accused the de Blasio administration of dragging its feet in investigating their schools, out of fear of alienating a constituency that the mayor has assiduously courted.

Some of the last issues to be decided had to do with education, including a push by state Sen. Simcha Felder — a Democrat from Brooklyn who conferences with Republicans to give them a critical 32nd vote — to protect ultra-Orthodox yeshivas from official reviews that might find they do not provide substantially equivalent instruction to public schools.

Not exact matches

In a fight between Bill de Blasio's Department of Education and the yeshivas that teach the children of Haredi or Ultra-Orthodox Jews, it might seem like the Department of Education is the 800 - pound - giant.

-- The visits come as the New York City Department of Education is investigating whether 39 ultra-orthodox all - boys yeshivas in Brooklyn failed to provide their students with adequate levels of non-secular education.