Although it’s decades too late for Rayne Lunger and her five brothers to personally reap the benefits, she is celebrating. New private school regulations in New York state mean fellow parents might not need to put up the battle that Lunger did for her daughter in order to ensure children receive a secular education in parochial school.
On Tuesday, New York’s Board of Regents approved, for the first time, rules aimed at addressing long-standing allegations that scores of ultra-Orthodox private schools, called yeshivot, are defying state law by failing to provide an education in English, math and other basic subjects, purposefully denying some 50,000 students a basic secular education.
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