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Cost: $5 per person
12:30 p.m.
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ext 375
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informal parent discussion
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In Philadelphia, the Raymond and
Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School also
has different tuition fees for different
levels, starting at $8,450 for gan
(kindergarten) and reaching $10,875
for seventh grade; an eighth grade is
planned next year. In addition, there's
a $200 per family building fund and
$100 activity fee per child.
The Perelman School recently
received a major gift from Sydney
Kimmel of the Jones Apparel Company,
said Ellen Tillman, the school's admis-
sions director. In addition. to $1 million
a year, the school will receive a $20 mil-
lion endowment on Kimmel's death.
Searching For Solutions
Hillel's Dr. Smiley had the Kimmel
gift in mind when he stated "the long-
term answer to the continually escalat-
ing cost of Jewish day school educa-
tion is enlisting the support of major
trusts and foundations."
In a recent brainstorming session on
the costs of Jewish day school educa-
tion, JAMD parent Cookie Lachover
of Bloomfield Township heard an idea
that would enable less-affluent donors
to make a big difference.
"A family who could afford it could
sponsor a high school student for the
four years," she said.
At Chicagoland Jewish High School,
the city's new Solomon Schechter school,
an anonymous benefactor has allowed
this year's first 50 freshman enrollees to
pay tuition of only $6,500 each year.
The current tuition is $11,000.
Locally, Hillel parent Sharona
Shapiro of West Bloomfield feels mem-
bers of the Detroit Jewish community
must step in to help keep day schools
operating at viable tuition levels.
"As a Hillel parent and as a person
committed to quality Jewish educa-
tion, I feel that Hillel Day School
serves the needs of many in the
Detroit Jewish community," said •
Shapiro, Michigan area director of the
American Jewish Committee.
"We need to look in the larger
Detroit Jewish community to see how
we're going to make quality Jewish
education, like Hillel offers, affordable
to all who want it. Right now, we don't
have mechanisms in place to do that.
"But we need to think outside the
box. We haven't been creative enough
as far as the financial picture," she said.
"We need to cap that tuition and find
other wayi to meet the need to main-
tain quality education. We have to
build on the core group who are willing
to create endowments and foundations.
"It's a communal responsibility, not
just Hillel's," Shapiro said.
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