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January 22, 2019

New York State’s Regulations for Private Schools Threaten Religious Freedom

Today’s suggestions could be tomorrow’s mandates.

In November, Albany issued a new set of guidelines for the state’s independent schools that not only increase the requirements placed on these institutions but also authorize public-school administrators to evaluate local private schools. Yaakov Bender, the principal of a Jewish school in New York, argues that the new policies pose a threat to the freedom of religious parents, and parents in general, to determine the educations of their children:

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