The Clinic filed a lawsuit in state court on April 27, 2021, on behalf of accountability news site The City, and its city hall reporter, Yoav Gonen, seeking records from the New York City Department of Education’s  (DOE) controversial Yeshiva school inquiry.

The records detail the school-specific findings of a five year investigation by the DOE into whether twenty-eight schools in Brooklyn are adhering to the state’s substantial equivalence requirements. Under the substantial equivalence law, nonpublic schools must provide an education at least as good as that provided to public school students in the same district.

The DOE has published a summary report of its findings but refuses to allow the public to review the school-specific assessments for 26 schools that do not meet the substantial equivalence threshold. The DOE simultaneously claims that the investigation is ongoing and that while also determining that curricula require improvement.

Update: The case is fully briefed as of September 8, 2020.

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