It’s been a hell of a long slog, but New York is finally beginning to defund private schools that fail to teach basic literacy and that say fuck you to state education staffers who try to work with them. Three ultraorthodox Brooklyn Yeshivas
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.
Schools that guarantee to produce idjits who go right onto the welfare rolls is not what the state has in mind, and it’s a really old scandal getting older by the day.