Sentences with phrase «yeshiva students»

The Regents on Monday also heard a report from Dennis M. Walcott, the former New York City schools chancellor, whom the state appointed in August to lead monitors overseeing the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County, which has been accused of diverting money from its public schools to provide services for yeshiva students.

Dovid's yeshiva students discuss «Song of Songs,» which celebrates sexual intimacy.

The Regents on Monday also heard a report from Dennis M. Walcott, the former New York City schools chancellor, whom the state appointed in August to lead monitors overseeing the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County, which has been accused of diverting money from its public schools to provide services for yeshiva students.

ALBANY — Language tucked into the tentative state budget could mean a more convenient bus ride home for yeshiva students, but leave taxpayers with a hefty bill.

Also at 1 p.m., members of Yaffed, former yeshiva students and elected officials hold a press conference in fight to protect the rights of Orthodox children, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

That it was a picture of Streisand culled from Yentl, the film where the actress disguised herself as a male yeshiva student, garnered significant extra-aesthetic traction — at least for those who keep tabs on these sort of things.

Not exact matches

It would be convenient to blame these incidents on Islamists, but the perpetrators typically turn out to be students from ultraconservative yeshivas.

This was a Hesder yeshiva, in which students combined Talmudic study with army service.

This time it is Rabbi Mordechai Elon, one of the foremost rabbinic leaders of the Israeli Orthodox movement and former rosh yeshiva at the flagship Yeshivat HaRav, where last year a Palestinian mounted an assault which left several students dead.

Assemblyman Dov Hikind was the first elected official to realize how important TAP is to needy yeshiva gedola students.

Some 27,000 of the district's students attend private schools, mainly yeshivas.

A letter from the group will be going to every legislator in Albany — but the only man who matters is state Sen. Simcha Felder, who just happens to represent the students at Hecht's yeshiva.

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.

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.

Nolan said she was «very concerned» by the idea of a moratorium, and noted that she was open — and has previously supported — other items that have been directed to yeshivas in the past, including more funds for student busing.

And so, nothing is improving for the students at those yeshivas.

-- 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.

The sign was paid for by the Young Advocates for Fair Education, which has pushed city education officials to investigate yeshivas for allegedly failing to educate their students in nonsecular subjects like science, math and English.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio rolled out a federally funded program on Sept. 6, promising free meals for all NYC students, but Jewish advocates say 30,000 students in yeshivas aren't getting the free meals because none of the food is certified kosher.

Mr. Felder — an Orthodox Jew who represents a large Orthodox Jewish constituency in Brooklyn — has expressed support in the past for allowing yeshivas leeway in complying with state law, which requires that private schools must offer students instruction that is «at least substantially equivalent» to that offered in public schools.

Roughly 9,000 students, the vast majority of them black or Latino, attend public schools in the district, while about 24,000 students who live there attend 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.

State Sen. Martin Golden (R - Brooklyn) defended the measure, saying it's intended to ensure safe transportation for all students — not just those in yeshivas.

Children aboard a yeshiva school bus, which a new state budget measure would require to drop students off within 600 feet of their homes instead of the current quarter - mile.

Roughly 8,500 students, most of them black and Latino, attend the public schools in East Ramapo, while another 23,000 students in the district attend private schools, mostly yeshivas.

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.

But the white students go elsewhere — many to yeshivas or other private schools.

Roughly 8,500 students, most of them black and Latino, attend the public schools in East Ramapo, while another 23,000 students in the district attend private schools, mostly yeshivas.

When state auditors tried to visit some of these yeshivas that were receiving money for special education students and, therefore, obliged to adhere to the state course content standards, they were turned away.

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know of Lakewood's sordid history of shortchanging poor students of color trapped in dysfunctional schools run by a Board that privileges Orthodox children who attend private and unaccountable Jewish yeshivas.