
Critics are pushing Mayor de Blasio to force ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools across the city to provide state-mandated secular lessons with a new petition that has gathered 1,500 signatures, the Daily News has learned.
Skeptics said the drawn-out investigation is just the latest in a series of special favors gifted from de Blasio to the city’s influential Orthodox community.
“The extended delay in releasing public findings from the supposed investigation raises serious questions of political interference,” said Brooklyn College and City University of New York education Professor David Bloomfield.