Activists battling the city's first Arabic language school are suing to gain access to its lesson plans, textbooks and personnel records.
"With this kind of new, radical experiment, at least we want to know that the New York City Department of Education did its homework and ... [chose textbooks] that weren't produced out of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia," by terrorists, said David Yerushalmi, a lawyer for the Stop the Madrassa Community Coalition.
The group requested the documents from the Khalil Gibran International Academy under the state's Freedom of Information Law in July, but the city has not yet complied. The activists filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
City schools spokesman David Cantor said the Education Department would not comment on pending litigation.