NYC schools investigation finds several yeshivas fail to offer quality secular education

NEW YORK — Several ultra-Orthodox religious schools fail to provide students with a basic education in subjects such as reading and math, city officials found in a highly anticipated report released Friday. The yearslong investigation into more than two dozen Brooklyn yeshivas concluded that four do not offer secular instruction: Yeshiva Bnei Shimon Yisroel of Sopron, Yeshiva Kerem Shlomo, Yeshiva Oholei Torah and Yeshiva Ohr Menachem. The city recommended that the state find another 14 yeshivas to be noncompliant. But education officials declined to release the details of those investigations...