“There’s no crisis here that needs solving except for the dislike people have of the Chassidic community, and that to me is the issue,” Moshe Krakowski, of Yeshiva University, told JNS.
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The New York State Education Department wrote in English and Yiddish to two Chassidic schools in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Feb. 11, notifying them that they will no longer receive public funding and directing the schools to tell parents that the institution “is no longer deemed a school, which provides compulsory education fulfilling the requirements of Article 65 of the Education Law.”
According to section 3204 of state law, “instruction given to a minor elsewhere than at a public school shall be at least substantially equivalent to the instruction given to minors of like age and attainments at the public schools of the city or district where the minor resides,” the state told Yeshiva Bnei Shimon Yisroel and Talmud Torah of Kasho.
