The New York City Board of Education approved last night a plan to use federal funds to buy books for long term loans to the city’s non-public non-sectarian and religious schools. There are about 140 Jewish day schools in the city.
The money will be used to buy library and textbooks and audio-visual aids for distribution to public schools and for loans to non-public schools. The policy is designed to aid primary and secondary school students in disadvantaged areas. A board spokesman stressed that the government funds would not be used to buy any material of “a religious or sectarian nature.”
Officials of the non-public schools welcomed the decision which has been opposed by the American Jewish Congress and the United Parents Association.
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