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fter much deliberation and
numerous evening meet-
ings, a method has been
established to dole out the
dollars set aside by the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan De-
troit for education scholarships.
When Federation announced
its allocations for the 1993-94
year, $75,000 was put aside to
create a financial-assistance pro-
gram.

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Remaining guidelines were
fuzzy until now.
According to Allan Nachman,
chairman of the implementation
committee, gross numbers for the
1994-95 school year will include
the initial $75,000 allocated and
not used for 1993-94 plus $25,000
of the $75,000 set aside '94-'95.
The remaining $50,000 will be
tacked on to future funding al-
locations.

The initial thought was that
the dollars would help non-affil-
iated families utilizing United
Hebrew Schools education ser-
vices to make the transition to
congregation-based schools.
However, as the implementa-
tion division of the Giles Corn-
mission (the committee which
suggested the closing of UHS in
1992), the education consortium
(an 18-member board of educa-
tors and clergy working "hands-
on" in teaching youth) and
Federation's Education Division
delved deeper, they realized fi-
nancial needs plagued the entire
community. Among affiliated and
non-affiliated, congregations were
continually picking up the slack.
In March, Federation Educa-
tion Division Chairman Douglas
Bloom announced the three-way
partnership which will guide the
scholarship process. Families,
congregations and other educa-
tional institutions like the Jew-
ish Parents Institute and
Workmen's Circle, and Federa-
tion together will pay the bills.
Education Division also deter-
mined families that are affiliat-
ed or have expressed that intent
to a congregation would have first
priority in funding.

"-We anticipate more funding
in the future, but we didn't want
to use up all the money in one
year," Mr. Nachman said.
Mr. Nachman does not antic-
ipate the $100,000 will be suffi-
cient funding for all applying.
In addition to basing funding
on need and affiliation, other cri-
teria include hours in school and
timeliness in returning applica-
tions.
The theory is that the more
time spent in the classroom, the
more costs a congregation has to
consider — some in rental, oth-
ers in personnel. Detroit-area con-
gregational schools vary in hour
requirements from two to six per
week.
"This is not about judging the
quality of education, it's about a
differential in actual costs," Mr.
Nachman said.
Forms for families are available
through congregations the last
week of May and should be com-
pleted and returned to temples or
synagogues by July 1 to be passed
along to the Agency for Jewish Ed-
ucation (AJE) by July 15.
No personal interviews or dis-
closure of W-2s are required.
Information on income, ex-
penses, number of children, mar-

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