For Israeli Voters, One Thing Is Paramount: Not Returning to the Bloody Post-Oslo Days
The war that has no name.
September 10, 2019
Albany should instead be encouraging alternatives to public schooling—religious schools included.
Last spring, three sets of lawyers—representing, respectively, Jewish, Catholic, and nonsectarian private schools—appeared in a New York State court to challenge the legality of a new set of regulations that would severely curtail the ability of these schools to function and to maintain their distinctiveness. The court found in their favor on strictly procedural grounds: the regulations were mere edicts, approved by neither the Board of Regents nor the state legislature. But the issue is bound to resurface, as the Regents are now considering endorsing a similar set of measures. Peter Murphy writes:
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Especially amidst evidence of prior cheating.
Particularism vs. universalism.
Albany should instead be encouraging alternatives to public schooling—religious schools included.
The seal of Adonijah.