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In this article, the authors investigate the possibility of using public, online charter schools to provide general education – at almost no cost – to day schools. After describing the cyber-charters, their advantages and disadvantages, the authors share their conclusions.

The Department of Day School & Educational Services of the Orthodox Union invites Yeshiva Day school principals and board members to a conference on improving education and cutting costs by adopting online education. The conference is scheduled for April 25 – 26, 2010 in Herndon, Virginia outside of Washington, DC.

Whilst the focus for the community in the last twenty years has been on putting enormous resources into developing the day school system in the UK, the result has been that the supplementary system has lagged behind in every sense. One reason for this deficiency of resourcing is that the community has been focusing their attention on the goal of having almost all Jewish children in Jewish day schools by 2020. A consultative research project has taken place to determine recommendations to take to the UJIA to invest in a strategy which addresses the needs of those children who attend supplementary Jewish schools and not Jewish day schools, as the locus for their Jewish education.

The Avi Chai Foundation, one of the largest Jewish foundations, is making preparations for cessation of all its operations in 2020 in North America, Israel and the former Soviet Union, aside from an endowment the foundation will leave to run its campus in Israel, Beit Avi Chai. The foundation is slated to spend down almost all of its estimated $600 million in assets over the next decade.