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May 3, 2022

New York State’s New Curriculum Requirements Threaten Orthodox Schools and Religious Freedom

Our society should support these minority communities in their pursuit of their way of life.

Out of concern that some Orthodox schools are providing inadequate secular education, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) has attempted to issue stricter rules governing the curricula of nonpublic schools. Moshe Hauer and Michael A. Helfand do not object in principle to the state taking a more active role in supervising the education of ḥasidic children, but they find the most recent set of regulations concerning:

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