Jewish Private Education, the Tuition Crisis, and its Relationship with Federal, State and Local Boards of Education (original) (raw)

Government involvement in education is at an all-time high (Lunenberg & Ornstein, 2012). The result of such involvement is controversial, as it has a large price tag and constituents – justifiably - expect results from their hard earned tax dollars (Lunenberg & Ornstein, 2012). The Jewish community is no different, as it is currently going through a tuition crisis. It is a dire state of affairs where parents are paying, on top of their taxes, somewhere between 9,000 to 30,000 dollars per child a year in tuition payments to Jewish private schools (Litwack, 2015). These schools - which are religious non-profits - receive little government funding, besides for those which are mandated, and therefore rely heavily on tuition payments and fundraising to survive. In this essay I will answer the following two questions; Do Jewish schools receive any funding from the government, either state, federal or both? And if not, is there any short, or long term, government – state or federal - assisted solution, to alleviate the monetary cost to both schools and parents.

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