Torah Learning Center
These policies apply to students enrolled in the Home Education Instructional Program operated by Torah Learning Center. They are intended to explain how the virtual courses operate and should be read together with the Enrollment and Tuition Agreement and the applicable course description.
1. PROGRAM FORMAT
The Program provides structured Torah and Jewish studies instruction through age-level courses. Courses may include written lessons, Torah source material, printable activities, worksheets, case studies, assignments, assessments, review work, projects, capstones, and optional written instructor feedback.
Unless a specific course says otherwise, the Program is asynchronous and does not require live video meetings.
2. AGE LEVELS AND QUARTERS
The Program currently offers courses for the following age groups:
Ages 3-5
Ages 6-9
Ages 10-13
Ages 14-18
Each age level is organized into four 9-week quarters, for a 36-week academic year. Each quarter is both an academic course period and an enrollment/billing period.
Each quarter contains a sequenced set of lessons, practice, review, and age-appropriate assignments or projects.
3. QUARTERLY TUITION AND FEES
Quarterly tuition is $2,500 per student for each quarterly enrollment and billing period. Torah Learning Center operates on four quarterly billing periods per year. Each quarter also includes a $250 registration fee per student, which is non-refundable except where applicable law or controlling scholarship-program rules require otherwise, and a $100 materials fee per quarter.
Tuition and fees cover enrollment and access for the applicable 9-week quarter, assigned instructional materials and educational resources, course administration, materials, and available written instructor support. Tuition and fees are not calculated by the number of pages completed, hours logged, assignments submitted, or times the course site is opened.
4. START ENROLLMENT AND COURSE ACTIVATION
Families begin by submitting the Program’s Start Enrollment Form. The Program sends enrollment instructions based on the family’s stated funding status. If Step Up scholarship funds are available, the parent should complete the applicable EMA reservation before Course Activation. If scholarship funding is pending, the parent may complete Course Activation before the EMA reservation is available.
The Program will verify the activation information and the student’s course and enrollment period. If an EMA reservation is available, the Program may verify it at that time. If scholarship funding is pending, the Program may, at its discretion, grant provisional course access before the reservation is available.
5. GOOGLE ACCOUNT ACCESS
Private courses are delivered through restricted Google Sites or related Google Workspace tools. The parent must provide a Google account email address that can receive access.
A parent may use an existing Google account. The Program does not require the child to have a separate organization-created email account unless a particular course or future technical requirement expressly requires one.
Course access is for the enrolled student and household educational use. Families should not redistribute restricted course-site links or private course materials to unrelated persons.
6. YOUNGER STUDENTS
Courses for younger children, especially Ages 3-5, are intentionally parent-guided. A parent or other responsible adult may need to read instructions aloud, print materials, discuss the lesson, help with cutting or sorting activities, or assist with written responses.
7. PARTICIPATION AND PACING
Students should work through the course in sequence and at a reasonable pace during the enrollment period. The Program does not manufacture or require artificial daily attendance records for asynchronous coursework.
A family’s failure to open every page or complete every activity does not change the fact that the course and educational support were made available during the enrollment period.
8. ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS
Course materials may include practice work, reviews, quizzes, written responses, source analysis, projects, or capstones. Unless a course specifically labels a submission as required, the family may complete work for its educational value without submitting it to the Program.
The Program may recommend selected submissions so the instructor can monitor progress and provide useful feedback.
9. SUBMITTING WORK AND ASKING QUESTIONS
Students or parents may use the Program’s submission form, email, or another designated method to submit eligible work or ask course-related questions.
Written instructor support is limited to reasonable educational questions related to the enrolled course. The Program may decline requests that are unrelated to the course, require professional services outside the Program’s scope, or require individualized rabbinic psak rather than educational explanation.
10. LEARNING CHECK-IN
The Program may ask families to complete a Learning Check-In during or near the end of a quarter. The check-in may ask about progress, support needs, optional work or feedback, whether the student plans to continue, and whether the next EMA reservation has been completed.
A check-in is an administrative and educational support tool. It should not be used to create false records of work that did not occur.
11. SCHOLARSHIP AND EMA PROCEDURES
Step Up For Students controls scholarship eligibility and payment approval. Parents are responsible for completing required scholarship actions in their own accounts.
The Program may, at its discretion, provide provisional course access while scholarship funding is pending and before an EMA reservation is available. Provisional access does not mean scholarship funds have been awarded, posted, reserved, or approved for payment. When funds become available, the parent should complete the applicable EMA reservation or authorization in the parent’s own account. Unless a separate private-pay arrangement is made, provisional scholarship-pending access will not become a parent-pay charge solely because scholarship funding is delayed or ultimately unavailable.
The Program will not ask a parent for an EMA password, multifactor-authentication code, or other private login credential.
When direct payment through EMA is used, the Program will follow the applicable provider invoicing process and will not submit an invoice before the applicable service period has been provided.
12. SERVICE DATES AND RECORDS
The Program may maintain records showing the Start Enrollment submission date, enrollment-instructions email date, funding status, activation date, provisional or standard access status, course, age group, quarter, access dates, communications, submitted work, feedback, check-ins, EMA reservation/service-order reference, reservation-verification date, invoice status, payment status, and withdrawal or access-removal dates.
The Program will not knowingly create false attendance, completion, instructional, or billing records.
13. CONTINUATION TO THE NEXT QUARTER
Continuation into the next 9-week quarter may require the family to reserve the next quarterly course service in EMA and/or complete any required continuation step. If scholarship funding for the next quarter is still pending, the Program may decide whether provisional access will continue until the applicable reservation becomes available.
If the student is continuing and the next quarterly enrollment period is properly confirmed, the Program may leave access active rather than removing and re-granting the same family’s access.
14. WITHDRAWAL
A parent may notify the Program that the student will not continue into a future quarterly enrollment period. The Program may remove access when the current paid or scholarship-funded quarterly access period ends.
Withdrawal from future periods does not automatically create a refund for a service period that has already begun and for which access and educational services were provided, except where required by applicable law or scholarship rules.
15. REFUNDS AND ADJUSTMENTS
Refunds, credits, return of scholarship funds, or invoice corrections will be handled in accordance with applicable law, Step Up For Students requirements, and the facts of the affected enrollment period.
If the Program is unable to provide a material portion of a promised service, or if Step Up requires a correction or return of funds, the Program will make the required adjustment.
16. TECHNOLOGY
Families are responsible for having reasonable access to the internet, a device capable of viewing the course, and a means of opening or printing course materials when printing is part of the activity.
Temporary Google, internet, or device interruptions do not automatically cancel enrollment if the course remains reasonably available. Families should contact the Program when a technical problem materially prevents access.
17. COMMUNICATION
Parents should keep their email address and other contact information current. Program notices may be sent by email or another designated electronic method.
Families should contact torahlearningcenterinc@gmail.com for enrollment, access, billing, or course-support questions unless another contact method is provided.
18. RELIGIOUS AND HALACHIC CONTENT
The Program is explicitly a Jewish religious educational program. Courses may cover Torah, mitzvot, halacha, tefillah, emunah, middot, Jewish history, Hebrew, source study, and related areas.
Where a course discusses practical halacha, it teaches educational principles and sources appropriate to the age level. A real-life personal question that requires individualized rabbinic guidance should be directed to a qualified rav rather than treated as resolved solely by a course worksheet or general lesson.
19. ACCURACY OF TORAH CONTENT
The Program aims to present Torah material accurately and responsibly. Sources should be identified where appropriate, especially in older age levels and source-based work.
The Program should not knowingly invent pesukim, statements of Chazal, halachic rulings, or historical claims and present them as authentic sources.
20. STUDENT CONDUCT AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Students should use course materials respectfully and honestly. Older students should complete assessments, written analysis, and capstone work in a manner that reflects their own learning unless collaboration or parent assistance is expressly permitted.
21. PRIVACY AND STUDENT INFORMATION
The Program will collect only information reasonably needed for enrollment, course access, communication, educational support, billing, scholarship documentation, and program administration.
Parents should avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive information through course forms or email.
22. COURSE MATERIALS
Course materials are provided for the enrolled student’s personal educational use. Families may print or download materials for that student’s home education use. Commercial redistribution, public posting of restricted materials, or resale is not permitted without written permission from Torah Learning Center.
23. PROGRAM CHANGES
The Program may update course organization, administrative procedures, technology tools, forms, or policies when reasonably necessary to improve instruction, operate the program, or comply with legal or scholarship requirements.
Material changes affecting an enrolled family will be communicated when reasonably practicable.
24. CONTROLLING RULES
If these policies conflict with applicable law or a controlling Step Up For Students scholarship requirement, the applicable law or scholarship requirement governs.
25. CONTACT
Torah Learning Center
torahlearningcenterinc@gmail.com