I’m not stranger to harshly criticizing the OU, but I actually don’t think there’s such an issue here.
Like CT said, they could very well be doing stuff in the background. But also, it might not be as obvious as you guys think to ally your organization with the opposition publicly. Where this could be headed is the state offering up a very reasonable number of hours, and having the Orthodox world still fight back against it. It could very well be that exactly what the seculars want is the ability to have a NY Times headline reading “NYS Offers up Only 10 Hours a Week of School; Yeshivas Still Can’t Handle That!” Do you realize how that makes us look to the masses? Have you considered the possibility that people are trying (and succeeding) at getting us to admit in a public arena that Yeshivas teach far fewer hours of secular studies than public schools? You might think that goyim know everything about us and our schools, but they don’t. People hear “private school” and assume it’s a good thing. It’s definitely damaging yeshiva’s reputations to have this discussion out in the open.
If the next number is, as the open letter on the homepage said, 17.5 hrs per week, then that already probably doesn’t concern MO day schools (meaning the OU has no stake in any further debate). So, I don’t see them getting involved any time soon.