Sentences with phrase «yeshivas from»

The agreement also resolves a last - minute issue that arose when Sen. Simcha Felder sought further autonomy for curriculum standards for yeshivas from the State Education Department.

Manhattan state Sen. Marisol Alcantara got the message loud and clear after she blasted Felder last month for pushing to exclude yeshivas from academic standards required of other schools.

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.

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.

Even if it passes, though, exempting yeshivas from educational guidelines could spark a legal challenge, noted Michael Rebell, a Columbia University professor and lawyer who has pursued school funding - equity cases.

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.

Senator Simcha Felder wanted religious yeshiva schools to be exempt from some curriculum rules imposed by the state education department.

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.

Sen. Simcha Felder wanted religious yeshiva schools to be exempt from some curriculum rules imposed by the state education department.

Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder was holding out for an exemption or moratorium from from upcoming state guidelines that will ensure subjects like math and science are taught in Yeshivas in a way that is «substantially equivalent» to the public schools.

after reading this fine article from yeshiva world, i have come to the conclusion, that when it comes to money everything is kosher.

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.

He wants religious yeshiva schools to be exempt from state curriculum rules.

They discuss how that provision has faced loud protests from the Catholic Church, and quieter protests from groups like the Boy Scouts and various yeshivas.

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 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.

The FBI yesterday swooped down on several vendors connected to an on - going fraud probe involving Yeshivas in Rockland County, serving numerous search warrants to obtain records on equipment purchases from religious schools, law enforcement sources said.

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.

Bailey also said she was visiting The Manhattan High School for Girls — the first Orthodox school she's visited as secretary — in response to an invitation she accepted in March from Agudath Israel of America, a Jewish - American organization that promotes yeshiva education.

The FBI on Wednesday swooped down on several vendors connected to an on - going fraud probe involving Yeshivas in Rockland County, serving numerous search warrants to obtain records on equipment purchases from religious schools, law enforcement sources said.

The first mailer from Republican Chris McGrath's Senate campaign is aimed directly at the 9th district's Jewish voters, with a pledge to bolster yeshivas and religious schools.

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.

After hours of negotiations that saw the New York State budget held up by a Brooklyn state senator seeking to exempt yeshivas (Orthodox Jewish schools) from state Department of Education requirements for non-religious instruction, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers finally passed the $ 168 billion budget for fiscal year 2019 on Friday night — just as the Passover and Easter holidays were kicking off.

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.

Felder recently teamed up with Agudath lobbyists to keep Albany from enforcing stricter academic standards at yeshivas.

Braff plays Aidan (a strange name choice, perhaps, considering the film's focus on his Jewish roots), an out - of - work actor whose wife, Sarah (Kate Hudson), is barely supporting the whole family with her dreary dead - end job, and whose children, Grace (Joey King) and Tucker (Pierce Gagnon), are about to be booted from their yeshiva for non-payment.

If Rieven does not live in a two parent family, he will be expelled from his yeshiva, the Hasidic school he attends.

Packouz reconnects with his old friend from yeshiva school, Efraim Diveroli, a power - mad, coke - snorting, Scarface - worshipping international arms dealer who offers Packouz a position in Diveroli's outfit AEY.

The new BHA website will contain testimonies from former pupils at private Muslim schools, illegal Jewish Yeshivas, and fundamentalist Christian schools.

The DfE also drew up a voluntary code of practice to keep pupils safe in out - of - school religious settings like madrasas and yeshivas, despite opposition from faith leaders.

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.

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.