State education officials scrutinize yeshiva standards

Feb. 25, 2025 – State education officials are threatening to use their authority to strip public funds from yeshivas that aren’t meeting the basic, secular education needs of their students. We discuss this development with Adina Mermelstein Konikoff, executive director of Young Advocates For Fair Education, which is looking to bring transparency and minimum standards to private schools serving parts of the Hasidic community.