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Demanding equality for every child who doesn’t fit the mold

JL;DR SUMMARY Miriam Mark, a mother and executive director of Teach CA, reflects on the recent success of Orthodox Jewish parents in securing a landmark court decision. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish Day SchoolsCaliforniaOrthodox Jewish FamiliesReligious LibertyJewish AdvocacyDisability RightsTeach CoalitionSpecial Needs EducationBecket FundLoffman V. California

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Los Angeles, California, United States
"Living in Los Angeles, we found it impossible to provide my son, Yonatan, with both the educational tools needed to succeed while also the benefits of learning in a religious environment."
California, United States
"California has long blocked federal special needs funding from reaching sectarian nonpublic schools, creating a barrier for these schools to provide the services a child with special needs requires and forcing families like ours to make the impossible choice between utilizing services they so desperately need or educating their child in a Jewish day school or yeshiva."

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