Calling it a 'major victory for Hasidic children in New York,' an advocacy group supporting ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Yeshivas across the state is celebrating an order that has come down from state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa.
“We now estimate it will take until the end of this school year to complete this investigation,” the city’s education department stated in the affidavit filed in November.
Advocacy group Young Advocates for Fair Education, also known as Yaffed, has led the legal battle to establish standard secular subjects, including English and science, in New York City yeshivas. Yaffed accuses city officials of dragging their feet and hiding behind excuses, including claiming that they’re unable to gain access to yeshiva facilities and engage with yeshivas because of language barriers.
While “substantially equivalent” is something of an ambiguous term at face value, Hazen said, he added that the state Education Department took care to better define the term in its recent regulations as “an instructional program which is comparable to that offered in the public schools and is designed to facilitate students’ academic progress as they move from grade to grade.”
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