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Hebrew Language Academy Charter School is a public Charter school in Brooklyn, New York chartered to teach the Hebrew language "and aspects of Jewish culture" but like all public schools will not provide religious instruction and will neither encourage nor prohibit religious devotion.〔Religious Language and Culture--Minus Religion, by Lynn Grossman, USA Today, January 16, 2009 ()〕〔N.Y. Hebrew Charter School Will Be Secular, Officials Say, Religion News Service, January 16, 2009 ()〕 The enrollment is 35% black, 6% Hispanic, 55% white, and 4% other.〔 ==History== The school is the latest development in a trend to establish publicly funded Hebrew language and culture charter schools, the first of which was the Ben Gamla Charter School, which opened in Hollywood, Florida in 2007.〔N.Y. Okays Public School With Hebrew Focus Philanthropists Lay Plans for National Charter Network, By Anthony Weiss, Jan 15, 2009, Forward ()〕 Whereas Ben Gamla ignited controversy over church-state issues,〔Hebrew Charter School Spurs Dispute in Florida, by Abby Goodnough, August 24th, 2007, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/education/24charter.html?scp=1&sq=hebrew%20charter%20school&st=cse〕 the Hebrew Language Academy will focus on the modern Hebrew language and Jewish cultures throughout the world similar to other dual-language schools in New York City that organize studies through the prism of particular languages and cultures.〔HLA FAQs, http://www.hlacharterschool.org/documents/HLA_FAQs.pdf〕 Philanthropist Michael Steinhardt funded the school's planning and application process. Sara Berman, Steinhardt’s daughter, was the lead applicant.〔 The New York State Board of Regents approved the application for the Hebrew Language Academy Charter School on On January 13, 2009.〔〔January 12, 2009 State Weighs Approval of School Dedicated to Hebrew, By ELISSA GOOTMAN, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/nyregion/12hebrew.html?ref=education〕 The school's principal, Maureen Gonzalez-Campbell, has extensive experience in dual-language education and served as the director for bilingual education for Community School District 27 in Queens, NY. She speaks Spanish and will begin learning Hebrew in the summer of 2009 in Middlebury College's intensive Hebrew immersion program.〔Hebrew Charter Principal Named, by Carolyn Slutzky, New York Jewish Week, February 4th 2009 ()〕 The school opened in the fall of 2009 with Kindergarten and first grade classes and added a grade each year through the fifth grade. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hebrew Language Academy Charter School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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