Tuition Assistance
Tuition assistance is available, as Chicago Jewish Day School is committed to working with families so that children can take advantage of a CJDS education.
The Tuition Assistance Committee uses the services of the FACTS. FACTS supplies an online application, which must be completed and submitted in its entirety (including uploading all necessary documents). The FACTS deadline for the 2019-2020 school year is on December 19, 2018. Please fill out the FACTS application online here. Please contact Liz Erlich, Director of Finance, if you have any questions about this service.
JUF Right Start
Chicago Jewish Day School is a proud participant in the JUF Right Start program.
A gift to your family from Chicago’s Jewish community.
Jewish Early Childhood Education... the Gateway to Jewish Life
We believe that Jewish early childhood education is so important that we created JUF Right Start to make Jewish preschool and daycare more accessible and affordable for Jewish parents.
The program’s centerpiece is a gift voucher - the first of its kind nationally - that will substantially offset the cost of Jewish early childhood education. The voucher can be applied to the tuition of the first child in your immediate family to attend a participating Jewish preschool or day care.
Bernard Heerey Scholarship
The Bernard Heerey Family Foundation Scholarship Program was established to meet the needs of middle income families with multiple children in day school. We are grateful to the Bernard Heerey Family Foundation for providing generous tuition assistance to eligible CJDS families.
If you are interested in learning more about the Bernard Heerey Family Foundation Scholarship Program, please contact Liz Erlich, Director of Finance, at 773-271-2700.
Empower Illinois Scholarship
The State of Illinois legislature passed a new act called the Invest in Kids Act (35 ILCS 40/1), which creates scholarship opportunities for families with limited financial resources to attend private schools, such as ours. These scholarships do not come from CJDS, but rather, will be disbursed by a non-profit Scholarship Granting Organization (“SGO”). The SGO, Empower Illinois, will be administering scholarships to qualified CJDS students. For more information about the program, please visit the Empower Illinois website.
