Opinion: Goodbye, California

By Rob Eshman
Published on July 5, 2011

The scariest conversation I’ve had recently was with a college counselor at a local high school.

Tuition grants, endowments to benefit day schools

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on May 10, 2011

More than half the students in Los Angeles Jewish day schools receive financial aid to pay tuition, which runs between $12,000 and $30,000 per year. And with both tuition and the number of students requiring aid expected to continue climbing, BJE: Builders of Jewish Education is partnering with local donors and national organizations both to alleviate the immediate crisis and work toward long-term solutions for lowering the cost of Jewish education.

N.Y. budget includes tuition grants for rabbinic students

Published on March 31, 2011

New York's state budget includes tuition grants for college students attending some private religious institutions, including Orthodox rabbinical schools. The money is available as part of the state's Tuition Assistance Program, under which any theological student who meets certain criteria, including attending a three-year program at a tax-exempt institution based in New York, can be eligible for the grants.

Will recession fuel a return to public schools?

By Bill Boyarsky
Published on December 23, 2008

Throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District, the recession is prompting middle-class parents to take a look at public middle and high schools they have long disdained.

Kadima cuts costs via Community Tuition Partnership

By Rachel Heller
Published on December 11, 2008

The Community Tuition Partnership, which will take effect in the 2009-2010 academic year, will lower costs for the entire K-8 student body

UCLA chancellor Gene Block tackles economy, civic responsibility

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 26, 2008

Block is known to his colleagues as a workaholic and multitasker but also wins praise for his patience and optimism. He displayed his patience and humor during an hour-long interview at his UCLA office and needs all his optimism to tackle the problems at hand.

What to do when the high price of higher education keeps getting higher

By Audrey Kahane
Published on January 31, 2008

As high school seniors scramble to finish college applications and anxiously await admission decisions, their parents may be more worried about how they're going to pay the bill.

The average annual cost for tuition, room and board, books and personal expenses at a UC campus is about $24,000. Many private colleges are twice as expensive. Tuition has been increasing faster than the rate of inflation and there is concern in the higher education community that only students from the most affluent families will be able to attend private colleges.

Mere Humans

By Rob Eshman
Published on May 10, 2007

To raise a child to young adulthood who knows herself, who has a sense of what she loves, an ability to relate to others and a command of the things she needs to learn -- that is a gift far beyond the right school and the best scores.

Retaining Educators No Easy Assignment

By Chanan Tigay
Published on August 25, 2005

Last year, Deena Messinger considered leaving her job as a kindergarten teacher at Sinai Akiva Academy in Westwood to teach at a secular private school or a public school.

The $45 Million Question

By Julie G Fax
Published on November 18, 2004

As soon as word spread about last month's $45 million gift to Jewish day schools in Boston, one question arose for parents and educators around the city: What about Los Angeles?

Your Letters

Published on April 17, 2003

Miriam Garber refers to "Rabbis for Rent" (March 28) as a godsend because "they do God's work without putting a price tag on it, as it should be."

Material Instincts

By Gaby Wenig
Published on March 27, 2003

Every day before Dina Goldstein (not her real name) leaves the house to take her two young children to day care and herself to work, she grabs two bagels and two boxes of orange juice. After buckling the kids into the car, she gives them the bagels and the juice, and they eat breakfast in the car on the way to school.

"I just don't have time to get them ready, myself ready and feed everyone before I leave the house," said Goldstein, who works as a religious day school teacher.

Like Goldstein, many women find maintaining a family and a job overwhelming.

Who Should Pay?

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on January 30, 2003

"We're moving," a couple casually told Rabbi Shlomo Gottesman. The rabbi was at first puzzled.

Private Schools: “Many Who Apply Will Not Be Admitted”

By Sue Stengel
Published on October 26, 2000

Since August, all of us have been the targets of television advertisements supporting and opposing Proposition 38. No doubt proponents of the initiative will be quick to use the results of a recent Harvard University study that found an improvement in academic achievement of some African Americans, particularly low-income families that received vouchers and are enrolled in private schools.