Balked by the Board of Education in its efforts for a postponement of school opening from September 10 to the twelfth because of the Jewish New Year, the Jewish Sabbath Alliance yesterday made an attempt to align the State legislature on its side.
On the suggestion of the Alliance, Assemblyman Albert D. Schanzer yesterday offered for introduction to the assembly a resolution memorializing the Board of Education and the City of New York to amend the Board’s by-laws “so as to postpone the Fall session of the public schools of the city from the tenth to the twelfth day of September.”
According to William Rosenberg, executive secretary of the
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