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"This is the smoking gun of direct mayoral involvement in delaying the investigation and working hand-in-glove with the ultra-orthodox yeshivas to soften the findings."

"What about the tens of thousands of yeshiva students who continued to be denied a secular education, as a deal between the mayor and the yeshivas?"

Yeshiva leaders and their supporters say the new regulations violate religious freedom.

'The guidelines are minimal, and it's a Shonda yeshivas are getting away scotch free,' said Susan Lerner of Common Cause.

Officials say that they still haven't been granted access to 15 of the controversial yeshivas.

A new lawsuit alleges that a powerful state senator has successfully and unconstitutionally forced the state to ease its oversight of yeshivas.

The Crown Heights yeshiva is one of many under investigation for allegedly denying students an education that meets state standards.

Former Rockland County yeshiva students filed class action lawsuit on Friday against New York State's Department of Education, for allegedly failing to offer adequate levels of secular education to students.