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Quebec wants Montreal yeshiva closed

By Alliance Alert

CBC: "Quebec's education ministry is seeking a court injunction to shut down a private Jewish school in Montreal for not maintaining scholastic standards . . . The yeshiva receives no provincial funding and does not hold a permit to teach, which contravenes Quebec's education law. The province's education ministry has since 2006 pressured the school to comply with education regulations, after inspections revealed that it was emphasizing religious teachings to the exclusion of secular, provincially-sanctioned core curriculum such as history and geography."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 28, 2010 (boomark / email).