Yeshivas

City Education Officials Let Failing Yeshivas Languish for Years, Newly Released Records Show

Aug. 7, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Aug. 7, 2023, 9:50 a.m.

Letters obtained by THE CITY via lawsuit show the Department of Education concluded as early as 2018 that some religious schools stinted on secular education but didn’t intervene. Those four schools still fail to meet the bar, the city recently determined.

Yeshivas

Eighteen Yeshivas Are Failing To Provide Secular Education, City Finds

June 30, 2023, 7:49 p.m.July 5, 2023, 1:48 p.m.

Detailed reports show significant deficiencies at four schools, including no English instruction at all. The Department of Education is fighting to keep similar findings sought in a lawsuit by THE CITY under wraps.

Eric Adams

Adams Praises Yeshivas as City Hall Fights to Conceal School Assessments

May 15, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 8:05 a.m.

The mayor said that the public system that’s failing to educate Black and brown kids should be “duplicating” what the Jewish religious schools are achieving. But his istration is battling to keep evaluations of 26 such schools under wraps.

Education

Brooklyn Yeshivas Blow NYC-Set Deadlines on Bolstering Secular Studies

Sept. 20, 2020, 9:35 p.m.Sept. 20, 2020, 5:45 p.m.

Letters to Carranza detailing a child’s plight offer insight into the crisis as slow action follows de Blasio’s delayed release of damning report. “It’s child abuse,” one mother decared.