For more than seven years, New York City’s Department of Education has been investigating allegations from dozens of Yeshiva graduates and parents who alleged that the schools they or their children attended were not providing instruction in English, math, science, and social studies, as New York State law requires.
An investigation of this nature should not take seven years and counting. Tens of thousands of children are actively being harmed in schools that refuse to comply with the law. It is clear that New York City continues to drag out the investigation so as to provide cover to failing Yeshivas and their leaders who wield large voting blocs.
The time has come for the New York City Council to investigate the Department of Education. Please join us in calling on Education Committee Chair Rita Joseph to hold a hearing immediately.