Tuition discounts for Staff
USCJ EC Director’s Listserv
August 15, 2011/October 2013
Summary of common practices:
Rabbi and cantor – free tuition is almost always negotiated as part of the rabbi or cantor’s
contract with the synagogue
Synagogue exec. staff, including EC Director – ranges from no discount to free
EC teachers – ranges from no discount to 50% discount
List serv responses:
(2011)
We offer a 50% tuition reduction for all teachers and synagogue professional staff. We used to
offer free tuition for the first child and 50% for subsequent children to the rabbis but the
synagogue did not pick up any of that cost and it was wreaking havoc with our budget.
Rabbis and Cantor get free tuition; teachers on ECC staff get 30% off tuition except in the infant
room where they get 20%. The rest of the synagogue staff do not get unless they negotiate with
the Exec. Dir as part of their package.
Our Rabbis and Cantors get free tuition as negotiated in their contracts, our
teachers and other staff in the synagogue get nothing off their tuition.
Our rabbi gets free tuition and the preschool staff gets 50% discount.
Our Senior Staff’s children go for free. Full time teachers receive 50% off of member rate plus
free registration. Part time teachers receive 25% off member rate and free registration.
The Rabbi's children come for free [which the synagogue negotiates]. We
have not given a discount to teachers or other staff members, yet.
Our Rabbinical staff gets free tuition, our teachers get 50%.
Our rabbis receive a free 5 ½ day tuition spot. Our staff receives a 5% discount for each day they
work. So, a staff member works 5 days a week, she gets 25% and if she works 3 days, she will
get a 15% discount.
Our teachers get 50% off tuition for their children. Clergy has had their children here for free.
Other synagogue staff get 25% off.
The rabbi' s child's tuition was negotiated as part of his contract and I believe he goes for free.
Our preschool teachers get a 20% tuition discount.
The Rabbis and professional staff, including the EC Director and the youth director, do not pay
any tuition at all.
We give our teachers member tuition rate plus 15%off and no registration fee.
We have one spot which we divide between teachers with children. So, for example, this
year we have 3 children of staff: each will get a 33.3% discount. Since we are a small
preschool, we can't afford free tuition to all children of staff. When our rabbi had children
in the preschool, she paid for them and was not part of this discount. In the future, it will
probably be part of the rabbi's contract with the synagogue to negotiate child care funds.
We give a 50% tuition break for any employee who works full time and adjust it
incrementally depending on how much they work.
The Director’s children and clergy members’ children attend for free. Synagogue senior
staff receive a 50% discount and our teachers get a 25% discount.
(2013 - Does your school offer a discount to non-clergy synagogue staff whose
children attend the preschool)
We offer Rabbis in the community the Congregant Rate for Preschool which
is 25%-35% less than non- member rate.
We don’t have a policy. Staff negotiates with their contract. I’m the ns director and my son has
attended all 3 years for free.
We offer a flat $400 dollars off any program to anyone teaching at our Synagogue (ECE or RS).
We offer free tuition for our clergy and staff’s children.
No. but we offer membership discuount.
All staff get 20% discount on tuition
We offer a discount depending on how many hours a staff member works. 1% per hour
up to 25%.
5% per day worked
50% off tuition (5 responses)
Non-clergy staff receive a discount equal to 50% of the highest rate of membership dues.