Jewish organizational representatives complained at a public hearing held by the Board of Education here that the Philadelphia school system is trespassing on the principle of separation of church and state by using public funds to provide teachers for parochial schools.
The complaints were voiced by Harvey B. Levin, vice-chairman of the advisory board of the local region of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League, and Theodore R. Mann, vice-president of the Jewish Community Relations Council here.
They objected specifically that, under a federal grant intended to aid parochial schools to obtain certain “special services,” the local education system is providing to parochial schools teachers of Spanish, French, music, art and speech. Those subjects, the Jewish representatives insisted, “do not qualify as ‘special services’ like therapeutic, health, remedial, welfare and guidance and counseling services intended by the law.”
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