Four Jewish day schools were among the 266 elementary schools, 45 of them private, that the U.S. Department of Education has named 1998-99 Blue Ribbon Schools. Tarbut v’Torah Community Day School in Irvine, Calif., Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh, Minneapolis Jewish Day School and the Katherine and Jacob Greenfield Hebrew Academy of Atlanta “excel in all areas of academic leadership, teaching and teacher development and school curriculum,” says a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Education. This is the second time in a row Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh, which is run by the Lubavitch movement, has been named a Blue Ribbon school.
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