The Court of Appeals here ruled during the week-end, that sectarian schools must meet the state’s standards and that a sectarian education could not be substituted for the required secular education unless it met the minimum requirements of the latter.
The action arose from a case in which three Jewish fathers in Brooklyn were convicted last September for sending their sons to a small religious school not registered with nor recognized by the Jewish Education Committee of New York. The three fathers contended that formal systematic secular education for their children was prohibited under Jewish law. The men were fined $10 each, but sentences were suspended and they were placed on probation for a year.
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