The Board of Jewish Education of Baltimore has created a department of special education to develop a program of religious education for mentally retarded children and others unable to attend regular classes at local Jewish schools.
Benjamin Freeland, retiring president of the board, also reported that the board had acted to meet the acute shortage of teachers. He said the board departmentalized the school faculties in a number of schools. He explained that, by assigning teachers to teach the subjects in which they have special skills in four classes, rather than the two classes they would normally teach, “we have been able to improve the level of instruction in all grades with the existing staff.”
He announced also the start of coordinated three-day-a-week program on Sunday mornings and two afternoons at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, which he said paralleled the schedule in affiliated Orthodox and Conservative schools. He said the new program represented a “more intensive Hebrew education by the children in our Reform religious schools.” He was succeeded by Harry Silver, a Baltimore attorney, as president.
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