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Posted 12/27/19

There are two reasons for outrage about the laggard pace at which the de Blasio administration has moved to bring quality education to 28 yeshivas at which English instruction was insufficient or nonexistent.

One is that more than four years after the Department of Education began looking into the problem, only two of the 28 Orthodox Jewish schools were found to be providing an education “substantially equivalent” to what is provided by public schools, according to a report recently issued by the Department of Investigation and the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools. The other is that the DOE probe was placed on hiatus in June 2017 to allow aides to Mayor de Blasio to corral a couple of extra votes from state legislators to ensure a renewal of mayoral control of the public schools.

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