Board: Charter School Can Teach Hebrew

September 11, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: New York Times

Wire Service: AP

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Hebrew-Charter-School.html

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A charter school may resume teaching in Hebrew, three weeks after the lessons were halted over concerns the Jewish faith was seeping into public classrooms, the school board voted Tuesday.

Broward County board members said close monitoring of the country's first Hebrew-language charter school is still necessary, but that its administrators had cleared up major concerns.

The school district will work with the Ben Gamla Charter School in Hollywood to create training programs for teachers and board members to ensure the separation of church and state, Schools Superintendent James Notter. Lesson plans will be submitted monthly for district review.