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Debate Rages Over Hebrew Charter School in NYC

by KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer , February 6, 2009

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The Brooklyn school satisfied the New York state regents that it will not violate the U.S. Constitution, but critics haven't been silenced.

Diane Ravitch, a professor of education at New York University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said in an op-ed piece in New York's Daily News that she objected to the Hebrew school for the same reasons she objected to the Khalil Gibran school, because a public school should not be "centered on the teaching of a single non-American culture."

"We don't send children to public schools to learn to be Chinese or Russian or Greek or Korean," Ravitch said. "We send them to learn to be American."

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