Tag: School Board
NY Times story on Orthodox school finances ‘misleading,’ says school official
The superintendent of the Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District in New York is responding to allegations in a New York Times report on Monday that it misused funds the town allotted for the public-school system...
Tennessee Jewish group slams school-board’s decision to ban Holocaust book ‘Maus’
The Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga in Tennessee is criticizing a local school board’s decision to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust book from its eighth-grade curriculum.
The federation’s executive director, Michael Dzik, spoke about the...
Tennessee school board removes graphic novel ‘Maus,’ author calls it ‘Orwellian’
A school board in Tennessee unanimously voted to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the Holocaust from its schools because it includes eight minor curse words such as “damn” and an illustration of a...