By COLlive reporter
Yeshivos in Crown heights have started receiving services which will total more than $1,000,000 this year and as much as $3.4 million next year, COLlive.com was told.
This monies were given thanks to efforts by the Chabad Consortium of Schools, an association created last year by the Merkos Chinuch Office to maximize the benefit of Federal educational funding programs at Chabad schools.
Private and parochial schools are prohibited from directly receiving government funding. Schools are however, entitled to receive goods and services.
For decades, Jewish schools did not receive the full measure of Federal services to which they are entitled. This is changing rapidly with the association reaching out to other yeshivos to assure that they too would be able to maximize their Federal funding potential.
More than 10 mosdos in Boro Park (which enroll nearly than 10,000 children) have already joined the association, says Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, Director of the Chinuch Office, the education division of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch.
Rabbi Kaplan and and Bryan Kaplan (no relation), a Los Angeles school advocate who is the director and power engine of the association, visited Washington DC this past week for a series of meetings.
Ron Petracca, an attorney at the US Department of Education for Title programs, said that even though he met with education delegations for decades; he had “never received as much insight as to how the programs work at ground level,” as he did during this meeting.
This comment came after two hours of a scheduled one hour meeting a meeting at the Department of Education.
A marathon of four such meetings was conducted at the Education Department, in addition to a meeting with the educational liaison at House Majority Leader, Rep. Eric Canter‘s office.
The delegation, which included Dr. Martin Schloss, the head of the Day School department of the NY Board of Jewish Education and representatives of the chassidic community in Boro Park, met with the heads of the various Title programs to share with them the particular needs of yeshiva students.
“These meetings have strengthened our on-going relationship with the leadership at the Department of Education and we have great expectations of the future,” said Rabbi Kaplan.
Let’s shutdown ALL Jewish schools in the NY area and enroll our kids into public school. TheBoard of Ed will immediately give us “our full measure” of funding. We pay our taxes and get nothing (in comparison) in return. If all Yidden in NY join together it will be a tremendous movement of Achdus and drive this message home “Education is #1 for Jews!” All the other people who also care enough about education and send their children to private school will applaud us to make a change in the broader education in America. Let’s do this once and for… Read more »
Marty
keep up the good work! I will meet you again in Pomerganet
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR EFFORT
please include Lamplighters Yeshive!
Dr. Martin Schloss is himself a “TOMIM” having attended Yeshivas Achei Tmimim in Worcester, Mass., where he grew up, through elementary school.
Boruch Hashem!
Will the teachers be paid on time?
as if the entire community pays full tuition, and the mosdos are rolling in cash!.
can this include yeshivas in MTL? (just kiddin)
a big yshar koach to r’ nochum kaplan, r’ levi shemtov and everyone else involved… chinuch should be a top priority and not a secondary cause as some treat it today…
worcester Yeshiva graduate and very proud of it!!!!
Can our melamdim expect pay hikes? Will our melamdim
receive more training?Will our teacher/student ratio become
smaller?
So can we expect a discount on the tuition?
Please include Cheder Ohr Menachem in on this as well. Many thanks.