Tuition for one's own minor children may not be paid from maaser
Standard tuition for your own school-age children is an obligation you already owe, so it cannot be funded from maaser. (One who voluntarily forgoes an available tuition reduction may pay the difference from maaser, per contemporary poskim.)
Positions by community
Ashkenazi
R' Moshe Feinstein (Igros Moshe YD 2:113): maaser may not discharge a pre-existing obligation; a parent is obligated in his children's chinuch, and under compulsory-education conditions this applies to daughters' religious schooling as well.
Sephardi
Generally concurs that obligatory tuition is a parental duty not payable from maaser; leniencies exist under hardship (see separate rule).
Chabad
Concurs for obligatory schooling of minor children.
Sources
- http://doseofhalacha.blogspot.com/2014/03/maaser-for-tuition.html — Yoreh De'ah vol. 2, siman 113
- https://halachablog.com/2016/08/18/the-laws-of-maaser-money/ — The Laws of Maaser Money (citing Igros Moshe YD 2:113)
- https://baishavaad.org/maaser-for-tuition/ — Ma'aser for Tuition
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