A national vice-president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Saul Cherniak, was on record today as formally opposing state funds to private day schools. He appeared before the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba to discuss educational problems of the province and the issue of state responsibility for different types of schools.
Declaring that he recognized the contribution made by private day schools and that he did not want to suppress such schools, he told the legislators that “I do not want state funds to be used to help take children out of our public school system to put them into private schools.”
He also said that he favored action by the public school system to provide facilities after regular school hours “for private auxiliary schools to teach the students the languages of their forefathers and even more important, the history, the tradition and the culture of their own people.”
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