{"id":82389,"date":"2025-07-22T05:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82389\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:38:13","slug":"judge-pauses-ny-education-departments-determination-3-brooklyn-yeshivas-violated-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82389\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge pauses NY Education Department\u2019s determination 3 Brooklyn yeshivas violated law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Brooklyn yeshivas found in violation of state educational standards will be spared of any real consequences for now, a state judge has ruled in a lawsuit sparked by New York lawmakers\u2019 recent changes to government oversight of religious schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Under a temporary restraining order issued last week, an Albany-based trial court judge, Justice Denise Hartman, paused the New York State Education Department\u2019s final determinations \u2014 and their enforcement \u2014 against the ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools<\/a>: Yeshiva Mosdos Chasidei Square Boro Park, Yeshiva Mosdos Chasidei Square of Williamsburg, and Yeshiva Torah V\u2019Yirah Bais Rochel.<\/p>\n

\"YeshivaYeshiva Mosdos Chasidei Square of Williamsburg. (Google)<\/p>\n

State education officials say the yeshivas had refused to cooperate with the government for nearly a decade, when the agency started cracking down on the quality of schools outside the public education system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have expressed no intention of providing an instructional program that offers basic education in English language arts, math, science, or social studies,\u201d said spokesman JP O\u2019Hare. \u201cThis lawsuit, fueled by the 2025 budget amendments, will reward these bad faith actors, allowing them to collect federal and State money without any oversight.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Several yeshivas have been reported to the Education Department for offering little secular instruction, leaving graduates unprepared to navigate the modern world as adults.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, six of them \u2014 which represent a tiny subset of Jewish day schools otherwise offering secular studies or engaging with the government \u2014 were notified that they effectively no longer held \u201cschool\u201d status in the eyes of the law. Yeshiva leaders were told to have parents find other ways of educating their children to satisfy the state\u2019s compulsory education law, while their schools were slated to lose public funds.<\/p>\n

The ensuing outcry \u2014 the latest in a years-long debate in New York over the government\u2019s role in regulating religious schools<\/a> \u2014 prompted Gov. Hochul and the Legislature to sidestep the Education Department and give schools more ways and time to come into compliance. Those changes were adopted in May as part of the state budget.<\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s office did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The Education Department continued to quietly push back, court filings revealed. In memos to the yeshivas\u2019 attorneys and the city\u2019s public school system, officials insisted that because the final determinations pre-dated the change in law, the noncompliant yeshivas were ineligible to show they were following the updated law.<\/p>\n

Steven Barshov, the yeshivas\u2019 attorney, disagreed with the Education Department\u2019s interpretation of the recent changes and asked the court to intervene.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Families who] have developed relationships with the yeshivas and staff that go for a number of years \u2026 are grateful to the court for issuing a temporary restraining order,\u201d Barshov said, \u201cand are hopeful the court will follow through with both a preliminary injunction and an ultimate ruling in their favor \u2014 because that gives them certainty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, yeshiva reform advocates blasted the order as hamstringing enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cNYSED\u2019s actions were a last resort after having exhausted all other efforts over the course of years, and are necessary to guarantee the right of children to a sound, basic education,\u201d said Adina Mermelstein Konikoff, executive director of Young Advocates for Fair Education. \u201cWe cannot allow another generation of children to exit the school system without the skills they need to thrive in today\u2019s world<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Brooklyn yeshivas found in violation of state educational standards will be spared of any real consequences for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,407,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-82389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-county","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114895277781996049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}