Jewish day schools across the country share a mission to educate as many Jewish children in their community as they can. They also share the challenge of finding creative ways to address affordability, reducing barriers to entry, while staying fiscally … Read More
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Insane Day School Tuition?
This week the Jewish Forward* published an opinion piece, written by a parent, about the high cost of Jewish day school tuition. The op-ed responds to a spreadsheet created by a father in Massachusetts that has gone viral – it … Read More
Crisis of Affordability: The Value Proposition and Cost of an Excellent Day School
As the school recruitment cycle kicks into high gear in this new year of 2015, almost every news feed these days includes a conversation on the value and worth of a day school education. And it’s no wonder: on average, … Read More
Is Anybody There?
For non-Orthodox Jewish day schools, this has been a month of troubling news. First, the new Avi Chai Foundation census reported that enrollment is flat or declining. Then, a reexamination of the Pew Study concluded that American Jews no longer … Read More
A Formal Jewish Education – You Can Afford It (If You Want to)
Recently a father in West Bloomfield wrote an essay to explain why he and his wife could not attend the day school in which I happen to be the Head of School. He acknowledges the desire to send his children … Read More