If school costs are too high, they must be lowered. To do so it may be necessary to devise a new school schedule and a functional curriculum which will provide for individual differences of pupils, and which will produce more adequate results, commensurate with prices paid. To broaden and strengthen Jewish educational work it is essential that a lay organization, primarily interested in fostering Jewish education, be created on a national basis.
There will have to be a clarification of the much disputed questions relating to the financing of Jewish education. If we are to provide for a planned program of activity for the Jewish community, the Federation, the synagogues and other interested groups must cooperate in a careful inventory of the needs of the Jewish schools, to decide upon a division of responsibility for the various phases of the problem. The scope and content of the community program of Jewish education must be studied, evaluated and re-formulated.
The amounts expended for Jewish education have, since 1930, decreased by more than one-third, and in some communities by more than one-half. Jewish education has suffered, in some communities, a more drastic retrenchment than have other phases of Jewish community endeavor. The saving feature, however, is the recognition which is growing that, with the transfer of the major share of the burden of relief to public agencies, the Jewish communities will begin to devote more thought to the normal needs and interests of the growing generation.
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