Private schools, public schools

ALBANY, N.Y. — An appeals court in New York reversed a lower court’s decision to throw out two provisions in the state education department’s regulations, which look to ensure that private schools provide “substantially equivalent” education to students compared to public schools. The appellate court says that to find that an alternative school is not substantially equivalent, is not equivalent to closing the school, it’s just a determination about the curriculum on offer, one which figures into other legal considerations.