Under Assault: New York’s Private and Parochial Schools

Will the Regents and education bureaucrats succeed in forcing nonpublic schools to conform to unprecedented state control?

In New York, the Education Department is redefining an 1894 state law requiring that private schools offer “substantially equivalent” instruction to students as that provided in public schools—henceforth imposing on private schools the curriculum, scheduling, lesson plans, hiring standards, and reporting requirements that public schools must follow.

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