Ten more Hebrew day schools will be opened next September in as many cities, it was announced here today by Samuel C. Feuerstein, president of Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools. He made that report to the board of directors of the organization, meeting here.
The new schools, according to Mr. Feuerstein, will bring the total of such primary, all-day schools organized for the 1960-61 and 1961-62 academic years to 24. There are now in the United States, he reported, a total of 278 Hebrew day schools at the primary, junior high and high school levels, with an enrollment estimated at 51,000 pupils. The total, he declared, was “undoubtedly” higher, since many of the schools do not report to any central statistical agency.
Mr. Feuerstein said that the 10 new schools will be opened in Savannah, Birmingham, Dayton, Tulsa, Omaha. Tucson, Peoria, Portland, Ore., Wichita, Kansas and White Plains, N. Y. He added there was a possibility that additional schools, now in the planning stages, might be opened in September but that, as of the presentation of his report, it was confirmed that, in the cities cited, teachers had been engaged and children registered for the September term.
Torah Umesorah provides a comprehensive program of service to Hebrew Day Schools, from the kindergarten to the high school level. Services include counseling on all phases of launching new day schools, development of curricula, teacher and principal placement, textbook development, PTA activities, budget and fund-raising and community relations.
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