06/13/2018
https://www.thelehrhaus.com/commentary/will-day-school-be-affordable-again/
Will Day School Be Affordable Again? | The Lehrhaus Rafi Eis offers suggestions to solve the day school tuition crisis.
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
06/13/2018
https://www.thelehrhaus.com/commentary/will-day-school-be-affordable-again/
Will Day School Be Affordable Again? | The Lehrhaus Rafi Eis offers suggestions to solve the day school tuition crisis.
Introducing the Interactive Sephardic Haggadah The Haggadah is read by Rabbi Elie Abadie in Hebrew and Arabic, and features animated text highlights with English subtitle translations.
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
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/
The Battle for Safe Schools - Orthodox Union Amid rising anti-Semitism, what is the government doing to keep our children safe?
04/24/2017
How to save New York City’s schools 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…
04/21/2017
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58f781efe4b0de5bac42ca01
Supreme Court Shows Sympathy For Church Denied Public Funding For Playground Even some of the more liberal justices signaled the state of Missouri may have gone too far against a religious school.
04/21/2017
Playground Case Could Breach Barrier Between Tax Coffers, Religious Schools The Supreme Court hears arguments today on whether Missouri should provide a grant to a church preschool, or if that violates the state's constitution. The state's new governor has abandoned the rule.
04/21/2017
It appears that the hard work of Project Education and other groups is paying off
This is a great step for getting funding for private schools from federal sources
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/19/524748818/in-church-state-playground-brawl-justices-lean-toward-the-church
In Church-State Playground Brawl, Justices Lean Toward The Church At Wednesday's oral arguments, a clear majority of justices seemed troubled by a Missouri policy that bars state money from going to religious schools for playground improvements.
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
For-profit schools are piling into New York's education market An elite group of educators want to enroll the city's growing families