Yeshivas keep probers out, Hizzoner says

Advocates for yeshivas under investigation by the city have insisted none of the schools barred Department of Education officials from visiting — something Mayor de Blasio says simply isn't true.

“That's just not the truth,” de Blasio said in response to repeated comments from Avi Schick, a lawyer representing pro-yeshiva group Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools, or PEARLS.

The city released a longstalled report on the traditional Jewish schools late last week, spurred by a complaint from an advocacy group that alleged students, particularly boys, are not given an adequate secular education in the city's Orthodox yeshivas.

But city officials were only able to visit half of the schools under scrutiny — 15 of them did not allow for access during the yearslong course of the probe, the city said.

Schick, however, has insisted at events — and in a Daily News Op-Ed — that the schools did not deny access.

“I can state unequivocally that access was not and will not be denied,” Schick wrote in The News.