Public Support for Jewish Day Schools: The Arizona Tax Credit

Publication Date: January 2001

Publisher: Jewish Education Service of North America

Author(s): Fred Zeidman; Randy Warner

Research Area: Education

Keywords: Government Agencies; Jewish Organizations; Day schools; Church and State

Type: Report

Coverage: Arizona

Abstract:

The author describes the experience of the Arizona Jewish community with a controversial state program that supported private education (including, in this case, Jewish day school education) with tax credits for private contributions to nonprofit organizations that gave students scholarships. The author outlines the program's implementation, and the challenges the program faced.

In Agenda: Jewish Education, ed. By Arthur Vernon, no. 14, Summer 2001, p. 17-20.