4 Takeaways from UJA listening tour on day school crisis
UJA leaders, including myself, have gone on a listening tour. Through our conversations with parents, school administrators, etc., we’ve heard the same four sentiments expressed again and again.
Letter from school leaders: Change is hard, but community will benefit from CHAT merger
While we recognize the amount of change is significant and has caused concern, we’re confident the long-term benefit the community will reap will be worth it.
Ontario funding policies threaten Jewish education
Ontario remains the only province that refuses to contribute funding to the general studies portion of the curriculum of non-Catholic denominational schools.
Busting open the door to lower day school tuition
It’s unrealistic to assume the day school tuition crisis can be solved with a $15 million donation. Yet the door of tuition assistance is ajar, and we must all work together to open it far and wide.
GUEST VOICE: TanenbaumCHAT tuition cut important first step
At the recent TanenbaumCHAT town hall, the more we listened, the more it underscored for us that the consolidation is only a part of the larger challenge of the affordability of Jewish education.
Musings on a shuttered Jewish high school
Zev Steinfeld and Daniel Held each discuss the conditions and challenges of TanenbaumCHAT’s tuition drop and closure of its northern campus.
TanenbaumCHAT closes northern campus and slashes tuition
The northern campus of the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto will close at the end of June, and tuition at the remaining campus will be slashed by one-third for the next five years,
The day school tuition crisis is reaching a tipping point
It’s not the system itself that needs fixing – though improvements are always possible – but access for parents to it
Shul offers free Hebrew school, Torah High enrolment up
For many parents who may have been priced out of the Jewish day school system but haven’t given up on their commitment to offering their children Jewish programming, there are a number of options in the GTA to consider
CHAT offers parents tuition discount for taking classes
The program, which will only be open to families who are new to the school, offers a $5,000 discount on tuition for parents who commit to a 24-week course of Jewish studies, taught by TanenbaumCHAT’s own faculty
