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Betty Rosa

Betty Rosa

  • No More Baby Steps: Commissioner Rosa Must End the Yeshiva-Gate Scandal

    Mayor de Blasio in Williamsburg (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayor's Office)


    State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa’s demand for June completion of New York City yeshiva investigations is a step in the right direction. But her order will be hollow unless deficiencies are quickly addressed. Every day that ultra-Orthodox yeshivas fail to provide substantially equivalent secular instruction to their students is a day that those children are

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  • An Office of Civil Rights for New York Education

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    U.S. Education Secretary John King (photo via USDOE on flickr)


    Educational civil rights in New York are once again front and center.

    The Civil Rights Project at UCLA calls New York City the most segregated

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