A month after the New York Times‘ bombshell report about how Hasidic schools in the city were depriving students of a quality education, the largest school has now admitted to fraud, stealing millions of dollars from the state government that was meant to assist kids.
The Central United Talmudical Academy (CUTA), which serves over 5,000 students over multiple campuses, was already struggling academically. In 2019, they gave standardized math and reading exams to over 1,000 students, and every single one of them failed. As discussed earlier, that lack of basic education can be blamed on a number of reasons, including the prioritizing of faith-based (mis)information over anything secular.
But yesterday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York announced a different reason kids were left behind at this Hasidic school: straight-up fraud. ...