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Affordability, Professional Leadership, Enrollment
Research has shown that referrals are the best source of new students for Jewish day schools. But how do schools know if their parents are referrers? How can they judge their reputation within their parent body?
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Affordability
Rockwern Academy serves toddlers through sixth graders (and in some years seventh and eighth graders), and our enrollment is 215 this year. Founded in 1952, Rockwern is a community day school and the only non-Orthodox Jewish...
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Affordability
By Jonathan Posner Making Jewish day school education more affordable is a long-standing goal shared by day schools of all stripes across the US and Canada. In 2016, the Julia and Henry Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Education...
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Affordability
By Rachelle Jagolinzer, Skip Carpowich, Zvi Weiss, and Keri Copans In 2018, San Diego Jewish Academy, a K-12 community school with an early childhood center, began a program to address affordability, a challenge faced by many...
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Affordability
Background In 2019, the Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy of Greater Hartford and the Hebrew High School of New England merged to create a vibrant, cornerstone K-12 Orthodox Jewish day school in West Hartford, Connecticut...
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Affordability
By Eric Amar Please allow me to start by saying that unless your school is in the highly enviable position of being able to fill almost every seat in every classroom with a full-paying student, this article applies to you! I...
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Affordability
This article is part of a series representing a partnership between JEIC and Prizmah. It grew out of a collaboration at the 2019 Prizmah Conference, where JEIC ran Listening Booths in which 52 participants shared their dream...
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Affordability
Our data suggests that well over one-third of Jewish day schools across North America offer some type of alternative or creative tuition program. An alternative or creative tuition program is defined as any tuition program...
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Affordability
Jack Lew, former treasury secretary of the United States and an Orthodox Jew, used to quip that it was easier to balance the budget of the United States than it was to balance the budget of a synagogue. This analogy holds...
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Affordability, Teaching and Learning
by Noah Kalter, Yeshivat He'Atid The 2017-2018 school year has been a groundbreaking experience for our students, teachers and parents. Not only did we launch our middle school at Yeshivat He’Atid, we introduced the Summit...