The new law provides funding for a security guard at private schools with more than 300 students. Private schools with more than 500 students will receive an additional guard.
Parents and former students are suing the Hasidic boys’ schools for failing to teach the basics “necessary to enable children to eventually function productively as civil participants.”
Fifty-two former yeshiva students, parents of current yeshiva students and ex-teachers signed a letter expressing “deep concern” about dozens of schools.