Prayer......to be introduced into pre-K education in the Big Apple???
Yep!
1. "New York City Eases Pre-K Rules to Allow Prayer Breaks
2. ...some children attending taxpayer-funded prekindergarten programs in New York City may have school on Christmas and Thanksgiving. And their school day may be interrupted by a period for religious prayers.
3. .... a compromise by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration that is intended to increase participation by Orthodox Jewish and other private schools in his signature initiative.
4. ...new prekindergarten programs are run by private organizations, including religious schools, that are compensated by the city. But many Orthodox schools have stayed away....
5. The new guidelines, first reported this week by Hamodia, a Jewish newspaper, do not cut the total amount of time per week required for secular instruction. But schools may now spread the hours over six days,....
6. ...the city had drawn a line at permitting prayer during the school day.
7. ...programs will be allowed to have one “short break” during the secular school day for “nonprogram activities,”...
8. The break, city officials said, is geared toward allowing children to pray after lunch,...
9. ....Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
“The prayer break is an attempted end run around the prohibition against religious education and prayer in city-funded pre-K programs,” she said. Taken together, she added, the regulations “add up to a religious school funded with taxpayer money.”
10. Rabbi David Zwiebel, executive director of Agudath Israel, an ultra-Orthodox umbrella organization, supported the changes and predicted they would lead to at least a modest increase in participation."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/n...-pre-k-rules-to-allow-prayer-breaks.html?_r=0
Could be a breach in the myth that the Constitution doesn't countenance religion in the public arena.
About time.
Yep!
1. "New York City Eases Pre-K Rules to Allow Prayer Breaks
2. ...some children attending taxpayer-funded prekindergarten programs in New York City may have school on Christmas and Thanksgiving. And their school day may be interrupted by a period for religious prayers.
3. .... a compromise by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration that is intended to increase participation by Orthodox Jewish and other private schools in his signature initiative.
4. ...new prekindergarten programs are run by private organizations, including religious schools, that are compensated by the city. But many Orthodox schools have stayed away....
5. The new guidelines, first reported this week by Hamodia, a Jewish newspaper, do not cut the total amount of time per week required for secular instruction. But schools may now spread the hours over six days,....
6. ...the city had drawn a line at permitting prayer during the school day.
7. ...programs will be allowed to have one “short break” during the secular school day for “nonprogram activities,”...
8. The break, city officials said, is geared toward allowing children to pray after lunch,...
9. ....Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
“The prayer break is an attempted end run around the prohibition against religious education and prayer in city-funded pre-K programs,” she said. Taken together, she added, the regulations “add up to a religious school funded with taxpayer money.”
10. Rabbi David Zwiebel, executive director of Agudath Israel, an ultra-Orthodox umbrella organization, supported the changes and predicted they would lead to at least a modest increase in participation."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/n...-pre-k-rules-to-allow-prayer-breaks.html?_r=0
Could be a breach in the myth that the Constitution doesn't countenance religion in the public arena.
About time.
