The Perelman Jewish Day School, a K-5 school affiliated with the Conservative movement’s Schechter Network, offered buyouts to 27 of its approximately 50 teachers.
Suburban Philadelphia’s Barrack Hebrew Academy is unusual not just for having a teachers union, but for its five-year-old tradition of board members and teachers sharing meals.
In a move that could have broad implications, the National Labor Relations Board has declined to intervene to protect Jewish day school teachers unions, saying it lacks jurisdiction over religious schools.
