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A national movement addresses
the day school funding crisis.
JULIE WIENER
Staff Writer
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ueled by a sense of urgency,
more than 120 lay leaders
representing day schools of
all denominations will be
gathering at a national conference
Sunday in suburban Chicago. But
Detroit leaders are staying home.
The conference agenda: drawing
attention to the rising costs of Jewish
education and pressing for increased
funding from Jewish federations.
Armed with results from a recent
study commissioned by the Avi Chai
Foundation, day school leaders argue
that the costs of running their schools
is rapidly rising, pushing many schools
toward bankruptcy and forcing others
to simultaneously raise tuition and cut
one of the conference's organizers at- -1
a member of the newly formed
National Jewish Day School
Scholarship Committee.
The president of Chicago's Ida
Crown Jewish Academy, an Orthod
high school that welcomes Jewish stu
dents from all denominations, Hanus
says Jewish day schools risk becoming
elite institutions accessible only to the
wealthy. The solution: making educa
tion the No. 1 priority of Jewish phil-
anthropy and forming community-
wide scholarship endowments.
Organizers of the Chicago confer-
ence have drafted a resolution they
hope will be adopted by Jewish federa-
tions around the country. It would
"commit that our professional and lay
leadership as one of their highest pri-
orities shall develop in 1998-99 long-
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scholarship assistance.
With day school enrollment grow-
ing nationally and studies indicating
day school education is one of the
most effective ways of countering
assimilation trends, the problem takes
on an even greater magnitude.
"This came about because there
does not seem to be an action plan for
the philanthropic agenda to deal with
the impending financial debacle that's
going to occur," said George Hanus,
Hillel students at a recent event welcom-
ing new families. Will day schools
become elite institutions for the wealthy?
range solutions to the crisis in funding
Jewish day school education."
Dr. Richard Krugel, chair of the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit's planning and allocations
steering committee, is immediate past
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