Friday, September 28, 2012

Noam Slashes Pre-School Tuition

Looks like they finally caught up with Yavneh, RYNJ & Moriah in making tuition pre-school competitive with the new players in the market:

Thursday, September 27, 2012 11 Tishrei 5773


Dear Yeshivat Noam Parents of Incoming Buds and Kindergarten Students for 2013-2014,

In order to accommodate all of our parent body, as well as be sensitive to financial pressures within the community, we are pleased to inform you that we will be lowering the tuition for our Buds and Kindergarten programs, for the 2013-2014 school year. We are so appreciative to all of you who have contributed generously this past year with time and financial resources, enabling us to lower ALL tuitions this current year. Through a continued focus on budgeting and cash management, coupled with a record annual campaign, we are able to pass along this savings to our parent body, while maintaining our commitment to low student-teacher ratios and academic excellence.


BUDS:
We are pleased to inform you that the Buds tuition will be lowered while continuing to deliver excellence and innovation with the same low student - teacher ratio. The new revised tuition rate for each Buds student for 2013-2014 will be $8,950 plus $850 registration, totaling $9,800. In addition, the extended Buds hours (8:30am-3:00pm) that began this year will continue as a permanent change to the program.

In past years, some Yeshivat Noam families have elected to enroll their children in one of the less expensive local Pre-K options that are available. For this current school year of 2012-2013, we were able to fill our stellar Buds program with our current pricing. With our new reduced tuition rates and extended hours, we expect an even greater demand for our program. Therefore, we want to stress to all of our existing Yeshivat Noam parents that we will be unable to guarantee your child's spot in Kindergarten unless you enroll your eligible child in Buds for the 2013-2014 academic year. Of course, all siblings of existing Yeshivat Noam families currently have a reserved spot in our Buds program. However, families who choose not to confirm that reservation by enrolling their children in Buds risk losing a seat for their child in Kindergarten and beyond, if that spot is filled by a new incoming family.


KINDERGARTEN:
We are pleased to inform you that the Kindergarten tuition will be reduced by $1,050 per student, while continuing to deliver excellence and innovation with the same low student - teacher ratio. The new revised tuition rate for each Kindergarten student will be $12,950 plus the $850 registration fee.


ALL EARLY CHILDHOOD PARENTS:
Recognizing the needs of working parents for whom affordable pre-care and after-care programs are vital, Yeshivat Noam offers a non-academic and less expensive pre- and post-care option. Pre-care is available from 8:00 am and post-care is available until 4:30 pm.


We know that September 2013 may seem like a long time away, but if you plan to enroll your child in Buds next year, please click on the Buds sibling application, fill it out and return it to the office by October 17th. Similarly, if you have a sibling who you plan to enroll in Yeshivat Noam for Kindergarten or Grades 1-8, please click on the Kindergarten sibling application or the Grades 1-8 sibling application, fill it out and return it to the school office by October 17th. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Executive Director, Enid Anziska at 201-261-1919, ext. 124.

Wishing you and your family a Chag Sameach,




Rabbi Chaim Hagler Dov Adler
Principal President

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So tuition for Pre-K will be $9,000 and registration will be $850. Is there still a pre-k building fund obligation of $1250, scrip obligation of $350, and dinner obligation of $850?

I for one would love to know how they can afford to do this given their debt load?
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they haven't announced tuition for the upper grades- it might just be a transferred up like Moriah did.
I guess if you wait around long enough, you can save some money. For those of us who have already paid the high fees, this stings.
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End Welfare · 652 weeks ago

I hope that all ppl sending to Buds next year and who will be saving lots of $$$ thank GD by buying him a bud (if that is the beer he prefers) since without the pressure of Heatid I highly doubt that Noam would have lowered prices. After all, if they could have done it in years past, why didn't they????????
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Happy to be saving · 652 weeks ago

Doesn't look like BPY slashed anything, as you stated in your title - YD.
Pre-Kindergarten $12,700.00 + registration, etc.
Kindergarten $13,800.00 + registration, etc.

I don't know why Noam would have cut prices any earlier. It didn't need to. It had the demand. The other schools did not cut prices to be nice, they did it because no one was enrolling in their schools! Now that Noam is feeling the bite of competition, they are going to be competitive. But why should they have cut the prices before now if people were willing to pay them?
Happy,

You're right, my mistake. I bet they cut it next year though.
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Happy to be saving · 652 weeks ago

YD, I'm sure you're right about next year. Even as much as people love BPY, they won't be able to get away with that pricing when all the other schools are charging less than $9K. The kids are 4 and 5 years old!!! It's nuts!!
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Noam Parent · 652 weeks ago

This is offensive. For years I always heard was how if they cut tuition it would hurt the quality of the education. And now all of a sudden, what a cooincidence, HeAtid opens and they only lower the younger grades. As a Noam parent who has older kids in the school, I am pissed beyond belief. So I had to pay inflated prices all along and I don't even get a break for the older grades?
Does anyone think there is a school out there that is going to bite the bullet and lower tuition significantly for all grades? Heatid would go bust. Interesting play for a bold school.
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End Welfare · 652 weeks ago

Over Shabbos all I heard was criticism about Noam. People want to know why they couldn't lower tuition years ago??? Why did they have to wait for GD to force their hand?
GD, GD, GD...you guys are like a cult. it's pathetic.
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End Welfare · 652 weeks ago

"GD, GD, GD...you guys are like a cult. it's pathetic."

What's pathetic is that prior to GD. all the legacy schools knew how to do was raise tuition by 6-10% a year. All of a sudden, GD gets things done with Heatid, and all the legacy schools are running scared, panicking and lowering tuition without explaining why they couldn't lower tuition in the pre-GD years.
That is an outright lie. Some schools haven't raised tuition in years. Others have raised it at much lower rate than 6-10%. All this before heatid was even conceived. Cut the bs.
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End Welfare · 651 weeks ago

Any school that gives off for "Isru Chag" so that the Winthrops can return from Israel should be ashamed of themselves. In this day and age, it is inexcusable.

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