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September 28, 2022

The Constitution and New York’s Efforts to Control the Yeshivas

So long as it sticks to the basics, the state can impose its demands.

Earlier this month, the New York State Board of Regents approved a set of amendments to the educational requirements for private schools—written primarily with ḥasidic schools in mind. Michael A. Helfand considers the constitutional limits on the state’s ability to govern what happens in religious educational institutions:

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