Shortly after the New York State Education Department pulled the accreditation of six Brooklyn yeshivahs, Richard McNally, a judge on the state’s Supreme Court, issued an injunction last week staving off their closure.

The department said that the schools, located in the neighborhoods of Borough Park and Williamsburg, didn’t comply with state law requiring that private schools provide “substantially equivalent” education to that of public schools, because, it said, the yeshivahs provided inadequate teaching in math, science and English.

A new law, which the state legislature passed over the summer, allows schools to create educational “pathways” to comply with state law. The state’s Education Department said the yeshivahs were ineligible to take advantage of the new law since they were already said to be out of compliance when the law passed. (The state told the schools that they had to end operations by June 30.)