Project Education

Project Education Our Mission as Project Education 2.0 is to address the financial burden day-school tuition has on families. What is Project Education 2.0?

With nearly 100 percent of the children in Brooklyn’s Sephardic community attending yeshivot, the issue of its affordability for growing middle class families has been front and center in recent years. The affordability of yeshiva education is one of the most discussed social challenges in Jewish communities nationwide as well as in Jewish communities around the world. The increasing cost of tuiti

on at Jewish day schools and the recession created a crisis: tuition costs have outstripped the ability of many families to pay. A decade ago, roughly one third of all community children received some sort of tuition assistance. When the economy tanked a few years ago, that number rose to 48 percent. Today, nearly 1 out of every two children in the community receives tuition assistance in some form. To develop strategies on how to address tuition affordability, the Orthodox Union and UJA Federation of NY partnered with Project Education to look at the issue of Tuition Affordability in our community. In 2014, eight focus groups were held and a community wide survey yielded nearly 1000 responses, clearly hitting a nerve. Almost all the respondents indicated that a yeshivah education was essential for teaching Jewish rituals, values and culture, for keeping their children in the community, as well as excellence in secular studies. 72% of respondents said that they were most concerned about affordability, the financial strain it was putting on their families. Project Education 2.0 is a 501C3 nonprofit aimed at addressing day school tuition affordability. Project Education was founded in 2011. In 2021, the infrastructure of Project Education was turned over to a new team with a new idea, and a new chapter of the organization was formed. What challenge are we addressing? Low-income families sending their children to day school in Brooklyn receive support from their school, through substantial tuition assistance, and from various community institutions, through financial aid. High-income families are able to afford their children’s tuition without assistance. However, middle-income families are caught in the vise of earning too much for traditional assistance while having to make significant sacrifices to pay for their children’s Jewish education. Given the high cost of living and high cost of living Jewishly (school, camp, synagogue), we estimate that families in this range are struggling, yet they are not eligible for tuition assistance. Project Education 2.0 is focused on these "middle-income" families.

03/28/2018

The Haggadah is read by Rabbi Elie Abadie in Hebrew and Arabic, and features animated text highlights with English subtitle translations. 

08/11/2017

Read Albert Laboz's solution for the tuition assistance issue
We can do something about it! And you can help!

http://projectedu.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Image-Proj-Education-82017.pdf

Project Education is always looking for ways to help mitigate school costs. This was a tremendous effort that involved m...
07/03/2017

Project Education is always looking for ways to help mitigate school costs. This was a tremendous effort that involved many community partners.

https://www.ou.org/blog/news/battle-safe-schools/

Amid rising anti-Semitism, what is the government doing to keep our children safe?

04/24/2017

Education is supposed to be the great equalizer. But that’s not happening in New York City, where hundreds of thousands of our children are in schools that deny them their basic right to a world-cl…

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20161121/PROFESSIONAL_SERVICES/161119827/for-profit-schools-are-flooding-new-yorks-...
11/27/2016

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20161121/PROFESSIONAL_SERVICES/161119827/for-profit-schools-are-flooding-new-yorks-education-market-as-families-grow

What does this mean for yeshivas?

Greater competition for our schools in finding good teachers and administrators that will accept sub market salaries
Great competition for our students who already have limited time because of a dual curriculum to do extra curricular activities to help them stand out
More choices for the parents who can afford it and do make college a priority outside the yeshivah system - taking the some of top students and wealthier families out of the system

An elite group of educators want to enroll the city's growing families

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