{"id":39045,"date":"2015-02-09T06:20:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=39045"},"modified":"2015-02-11T15:33:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T20:33:40","slug":"no-jew-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/education\/no-jew-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"No Jew Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/advocacy.ou.org\/action-alert\/urge-mayor-de-blasio-make-new-york-citys-universal-pre-k-program-truly-universal\/#\/25\/\"><strong>Urge Mayor de Blasio to make NYC&#8217;s universal pre-K program truly universal &#8211; email him now<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/UPK_crop-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"UPK_crop\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-39052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/UPK_crop-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/UPK_crop.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/>In his State of the City last week, Mayor de Blasio bragged of having provided seats for 50,000 kids in his \u201cuniversal pre-k\u201d program. Well, not quite \u201cuniversal\u201d: It bars nine out of 10 kids at Jewish day schools.<\/p>\n<p>A group of these schools, led by the Orthodox Union, says de Blasio\u2019s pre-k plan left them \u201cout in the cold,\u201d because it requires six hours and 20 minutes of \u201csecular instruction\u201d a day, which leaves no time for privately funded religious instruction.<\/p>\n<p>They say despite several easy fixes \u2014 i.e., using the state standard of just five hours a day or offering more part-time pre-k seats \u2014 the mayor\u2019s folks haven\u2019t offered any. As a result, 8,000 Jewish day-school kids missed out on this year\u2019s \u201cuniversal\u201d pre-k and are set to lose out again next year.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/02\/08\/no-jew-left-behind\/\">NYpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/advocacy.ou.org\/action-alert\/urge-mayor-de-blasio-make-new-york-citys-universal-pre-k-program-truly-universal\/#\/25\/\"><strong>Urge Mayor de Blasio to make NYC&#8217;s universal pre-K program truly universal &#8211; email him now<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urge Mayor de Blasio to make NYC&#8217;s universal pre-K program truly universal &#8211; email him now. In his State of the City last week, Mayor de Blasio bragged of having provided seats for 50,000 kids in his \u201cuniversal pre-k\u201d program. Well, not quite \u201cuniversal\u201d: It bars nine out of 10 kids at Jewish day schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No Jew Left Behind - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/education\/no-jew-left-behind\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No Jew Left Behind - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urge Mayor de Blasio to make NYC&#8217;s universal pre-K program truly universal &#8211; email him now. 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