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Yeshivas accused of providing inferior secular education were put on notice Tuesday that they could be shut by the state. Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia released new guidelines that give her ...

Judaism refers to its followers as “people of the book.” But the children — some 57,000 of them in New York City alone, according to the 2013 census — of the state’s ultra-Orthodox communities are ...

Every student enrolled in a yeshiva saves the state thousands of dollars, a representative of Agudath Israel writes. This controversial decision is part of a coordinated attack on yeshivas that holds ...

More than four years after the Department of Education began to look into allegations that private yeshivas in New York City were not providing their students with an adequate education, the de Blasio ...

Hasidic yeshivas have promised New York City that they will provide more secular education to their young students, but neither the city nor the yeshivas will say exactly how the schools’ curricula ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A veil of secrecy has been lifted, finally revealing the status of the city's investigation into Ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools and how they fare preparing students for lives ...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) – The New York State Education Department released long-awaited guidelines Thursday on teaching secular subjects in parochial schools. They were met with immediate ...

(JTA) — The New York State Education Department is cutting off public funding to two Brooklyn yeshivas and ordering parents to find alternative educational arrangements for their children next year, ...

New York City has ordered yeshivas in a heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Brooklyn to exclude from classes all students who aren't vaccinated against measles or face violations and possible closure.