Comments on: Op-Ed: The Unnoticed Main Financiers of the $3.2 Billion U.F.T. Payout: Yeshiva Parents

By: pray4all

pray4all — Sun, 04 May 2014 14:44:31 +0000

#3,

1. There is not a lot of the frum community on welfare. Some have medicaid and food stamps.

2. Are other groups who have a much higher welfare percentage double dipping when they send their children to free public schools?

By: charliehall

charliehall — Fri, 02 May 2014 20:51:29 +0000

What is the point of this rant? The New York State Constitution explicitly forbids government support of religious schools for anything other than transportation. An attempt to change that in 1967 failed by a 72%-28% margin. Until that is changed, there is nothing to discuss.

And less you think that this is about unions, remember that almost all the Catholic schools in New York are unionized. Were we to allow the unions into our schools we could join with the Catholics and have a much, much stronger lobby to make this change.

By: Frum-n-Fair

Frum-n-Fair — Fri, 02 May 2014 19:55:54 +0000

A lot of the frum community is on welfare. So you want to double dip?

By: DrG

DrG — Fri, 02 May 2014 17:39:35 +0000

My wife;who works for the Board of Ed explained to me that the teachers had to reduce some of their health benefits in exchange for a raise in salary.

By: jew yorker

jew yorker — Fri, 02 May 2014 16:36:37 +0000

Good rule of thumb: when de blassio is smiling its usually good news for unions, criminals, freeloaders, government workers or some combination of the above.