NYS Education Dept. directs families at 3 Brooklyn yeshivas to find another way to educate their children

The New York State Education Department is instructing families at a few Brooklyn yeshivas to find other schools — the first major test of how education officials will enforce controversial regulations of failing religious programs .

Parents have until July 1 to find an “appropriate educational setting” for their children and notify the local school district of their new enrollment status, according to a letter template shared with the Daily News.

Their former schools will be cut off from all public funds — for child nutrition programs, transportation, textbooks and other services — in what advocates suggested was a new phase of a yearslong effort to ensure all students graduate with basic skills in core subjects, such as English and math…

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