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Associated Press – September 11, 2007
\nFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A charter school may resume teaching in Hebrew, more three weeks after the lessons were halted over concerns the Jewish faith was seeping into public classrooms, the school board voted Tuesday.
\nBroward 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.
\nThe 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.
\n“We have asked this charter school to do a lot of different things,” said board chair Beverly Gallagher. “As far as I can see, they have done everything that we have asked them.”
\nThe school can teach about the Jewish faith, but cannot advocate it. Hebrew instruction is to resume Monday.
\n“We never considered crossing that line,” said school founder Peter Deutsch, a former Democratic congressman.
\nBen Gamla’s roughly 400 students in kindergarten through eighth grades follow the state curriculum, but also are to take a Hebrew language course. One of their core subjects – math or physical education, for example – is to be taught bilingually as well.
\nThe school only taught Hebrew for three days before classes were halted last month. Since, they have used the time allotted for language instruction to teach Israeli geography and Jewish history and culture.
\nMichael Gerson, a Coral Springs man whose 6-year-old daughter Julia goes to Ben Gamla, said he felt the debate helped strengthen the curriculum. He said he was glad his daughter would begin learning Hebrew again just after the start of the Jewish New Year.
\n“That’s all we wanted,” he said. “We didn’t want them to teach them religion.”
\nDeutsch plans additional Ben Gamla locations in South Florida and in New York and Los Angeles. The school takes its name from a Jewish high priest.
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