School district superintendents are legally responsible for making sure the private schools in their districts meet minimum secular education requirements. But especially in districts with large haredi populations that bloc vote, these superintendents have clearly not enforced the law. Now Yaffed is about to sue, but before it does, it would like your help.
Above: two Yaffed billboards
School district superintendents are legally responsible for making sure the private schools in their districts meet minimum secular education requirements. But especially in districts with large haredi populations that bloc vote, these superintendents have clearly not enforced the law.
Yaffed, an organization working to ensure haredi schools teach the secular core curriculum so graduates can, if they so choose, find a job or go to college without first having to take what can be years of remedial classes just to be at the educational level of an average public school senior on graduation.
Yaffed is in the process of launching a class action lawsuit against the various government entities that have failed to uphold the law. But in a last ditch effort to avoid the lawsuit, it's attorney is writing these school superintendents and would like to include the stories of haredim and ex-haredim who suffered economically and in other ways from a lack of secular education.
If you're interested, you can sign up here. (Yaffed says signing up does not mean your name will be used in the lawsuit, if it is filed. That would be a choice made later by you in conjunction with Yaffed and noted civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, who is representing Yaffed.)