In final vote on Tuesday, the new Board of Regents rules were approved giving private schools multiple pathways to show they meet a longstanding legal mandate to provide an education that is “substantially equivalent” to that of a public school.
In final vote on Tuesday, the new Board of Regents rules were approved giving private schools multiple pathways to show they meet a longstanding legal mandate to provide an education that is “substantially equivalent” to that of a public school.
A Board of Regents committee unanimously approved guidelines Monday to make sure instruction at the state's private and religious schools is equivalent to that of its public schools, following years of complaints that some ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools were not meeting basic academic standards.
New York is poised to strengthen its oversight of private and religious schools following years of complaints that thousands of children are graduating