A bill which would provide health and welfare services to pupils in Hebrew day schools and other non-public schools, equal to those provided for public school children, has been introduced into the Senate here by state Senator Edward J. Speno, and into the Assembly by Assemblyman Bertram L. Baker.
Rabbi Morris Sherer, executive vice-president of the Agudath Israel of America, today urged New York legislators to “pass this bill speedily, in order to remove the discrimination from which non-public school children now suffer in the area of health and welfare services.” The bill, which failed to come out of committee during last year’s legislative session, would provide pupils in private schools with psychiatric, psychological, social work, guidance, testing and remedial instructional services.
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