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Does govt support for “school choice” offer eligible Jews financial assistance for their children to attend frum schools?
Yes in certain jurisdictions, depending how broadly they permit school choice. Some states (a small number) currently do fund Yeshiva tuition for the portion covering secular studies.
Most people prefer to live in the NYC Area (Includes Monsey, Lakewood etc) , Baltimore or South Florida with a smattering in other places like LA pr Chicago area
They prefer places with lots of other jews
Some OOT communities list that as a reason people might consider moving to their town in their promotional ads.
There is a point people miss when calling for public funding of yeshivas. Outside of NYC, public school budgets are subject to scrutiny and must be approved by voters. The same would apply to a yeshiva that was publicly funded. Also, yeshiva parents are on school boards even their kids don’t attend. So, how do you keep non Jewish taxpayers off of taxpayer funded yeshivas?
On that token of logic, how do you keep Jewish taxpayers off of taxpayer funded non-yeshivas?
Ohio already has school choice. The Jews there are very happy with it. I’m not sure if it influences people to move there, but I bet it does for at least some people. Cleveland has a big frum Jewish community with several schools to choose from and extremely affordable real estate.
lesschumras……….
Sorry, But you are wrong.
“Outside of NYC, public school budgets are subject to scrutiny and must be approved by voters.”
I am an elected member of my Town Council, the Board of Education budget is passed by the board and submitted to the Board of Finance and First Selectman/Mayor. hey finalize a town budget that is voted on by the Town Council
The town voters NEVER get to vote on the school budget.
What you wrote may happen in some places but not in many others (especially in CT)
CT lawyer, Long Island school budgets are subject to voter approval
Joseph, you don’t. You take govt money, there are strings attached
CT, even in your case, don’t the the public schools have to submit a budget request, with justification? Well, I would expect that all publicly funded private schools would also have to submit budget proposals, with justifications
Lawmakers can reduce regulations and make very little strings attached.
lesschumras….
The elected BOE does submit a budget request to the First Selectman (no they don’t have to justify it, just have line items). He then decides what to submit to the Board of Finance and the Town Council (the only entity who actually votes on it).
CT by law does not allow a municipality to fund their Public Schools at an amount less than the previous year (without an act of the legislature….example a major employer leaves town and the school population drops more than 10%).
There is no school tax in CT, only local property taxes which support the entire municipal government. I used to own a cottage in the Catskills that was assessed fro $800. The property tax was $12 per year, but the county school tax was $600. I let the inherited shack go for back taxes.
lesschumras, AFAIK school choice doesn’t mean private/religious schools are publicly funded the same way public schools are. I’m no expert, but I believe the idea of vouchers is that part of the tax money that’s allocated for each student follows the student to the school of the parents’ choice, whether it’s public or not. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Even without vouchers, private schools have to meet certain standards. Otherwise, they parents could get in trouble for not sending their kids to (a real) school.
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