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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1 how do they get public education funding?[/quote]

In the E Ramapo story, it was because the Hasidic community (who took over as majority on school board) slashed the budget for the school district to try to minimize costs of the district which would allow for more funds to be paid out for "special needs' students. They - apparently against state law - took the cost allocated to special needs kids in public schools and sent to their private religious schools. They also closed one of the public ES schools and sold it to their community to be used as a religious school.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/27/school-board-east-ramapo-public-school-funding-private-yeshivas

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/rockland/2022/03/17/east-ramapo-payout-fund-aid-public-school-children-stem-programs/7048345001/

https://www.nyclu.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/20210914_nyclu_eramapo_report.pdf

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-a-ny-town-increasing-haredi-influence-turns-a-school-board-into-a-battleground/

Or you can listen to the bit by This American Life, which was quite detailed. 
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They also owned a lot of the “special needs” schools themselves and profit from each child that is sent there.  There was a huge case in nj about this [/quote]

That’s messed up. Why isn’t the  state gov addressing this? [/quote]

That’s the million dollar question. ACLU got involved and sued on behalf of disenfranchised black and Latino communities. As a result, state sent a rep/arbiter to sit on school board. But if you look at the school board makeup currently, Hasidic still hold majority seats. Only 3 are actual public school parents. Messed up[/quote]

Hasidim, please. Hasidic is the adjective, Hasid/Hasidim (plural) the noun.

And yeah, the scope of this may be news but the background isn't. NYT runs articles every few years about early 20s folks who leave the community and find themselves virtually unemployable or unable to pursue higher education because of they receive virtually no science or English instruction. It's not that they aren't educated -- they are highly educated. In Yiddish, in Torah, in Talmud, in subjects that are valued in the community but not in the rest of the country and don't contribute to holding down a job and supporting a family.

If they are breaking the law, hopefully they will be prosecuted. If they are funneling public funds to religious charter schools and the like, well, I don't agree with that but our Supreme Court does - at least for Christian schools - so let's see where that goes ...
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