Silverberg v. Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 18

The petitioner seeks an order directing the Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 18, Town of Oyster Bay, to register her son, Brett Dana 'Silverberg, in the first grade, claiming that he is qualified to bypass the public kindergarten on the basis of his previous private kindergarten school record. The Board of Education, as a matter of declared policy, will not admit a pupil to first grade unless he has satisfactorily completed a year of kindergarten in a duly registered kindergarten, or one which provides substantially equivalent instruction. Brett, born February 4, 1964, did…