2. Jewish Schools provide our children and youth
daily and weekly contact, building and reinforcing
Jewish identity
2
Ourmodel is building Jewish identity and
community through education
More exposure to Jewish education, higher
probability for Jewish continuity, Jewish
literacy
Our strategy is to support and create many
educational portals to the Affiliation
Highway
3. TOTAL JEWISH SCHOOL AGE
COHORT
Enrolment Today
Public and
Day Schools Private
Schools
13,650
14,820
14,430 25,350
19,500
14,430
16,770
5,850
9,750
7,800
Supplementary Schools
39,000 Total Enrolment
4. The GTA Jewish Education Sector
4
Key Issues
Why we are not growing – day and
supplementary
Competition, Quality and Cost
Low participation rate of certain markets
Special needs
5. The Strategic Objectives
5
Supplementary Schools
Working with the Coalition of Willing
organizations to provide new programs
Double the participation rate
Unleash the entrepreneurial spirit
Enhanced Content ( curriculum) and Caliber
(teaching)
Roles for JTS , URJ, YU,etc.
Sustainable business models and practices
Seed capital
6. The WOW initiative
6
The Action Plan with JESNA
Launch
Developing community interest
Mail out
One on one
Community meeting
Best practices
Recruiting volunteers/ consultants
re: business modeling
Start ups
Notas do Editor
CRAIG The CJE has gone through an extensive transition process with stakeholders in the community. We are moving from a central authority on Jewish education to becoming an educational capacity building arm of the Federation. This is the CJE focus for the next 3 yearsThat’s our proposal. Ed will make the CCBC presentation and speak to the 5Cs.
CRAIG
Today – about half our Jewish children participate in some form of Jewish education. About half don’t.
CHARI
ED3 year target; review as we go alongWe should aim towards adding more than 250 students we can include low income and middle class families as wellThe way to address the school deficits issues is generate 150 more day school full pay students to generate the additional revenues needed.Average elementary tuition is $13k per yearCurrently 75% full pay; 25% on subsidy Supp schools participation rate 13% - we want to go to 25%The issue for day schools: Right now the fundamental issue is to become stable and sustaining. Federation can’t do it alone; we already put in a lot of community resources. Currently an extra $1.75 to $2 million a year would stabilize the deficits of the schools who have them. Our solution is to help the system operate at capacity and get more childreninto the schools This way there will be more revenue. Our strategy is to work with the sector to search out the niche markets where we think this can be done.
