Preschool tuition runs $4,600.
Tuition runs as high as $27,150 a year.
At Phoenix College, for example, a part of the Maricopa system, in-state tuition runs $65 a credit hour.
"I did not want to ask my parents for more money," said Ms. Malyshev, a sophomore at Northeastern in Boston, where yearly tuition runs $51,000 with room and board.
Mr. Paynter taught the ambitious teenager economics between 1991 and 1992 at Forest School, a private school in east London where tuition runs around $12,000 a year.
The local papers say that he and his wife have given generously to a homeless shelter, to the Westport Country Playhouse and the Fairfield Country Day School, a boys' prep school where tuition runs as high as $29,300 a year.
At University Liggett School, a K-12 private school in Grosse Pointe Woods where tuition runs as high as $20,000, that fear of the unknown has needed to be addressed just as much as lost income.
The nursery at the Y, where tuition runs as high as $14,400 a year, is one of the half-dozen most competitive in the city, along with All Souls School, the Brick Church School, Park Avenue Synagogue Early Childhood Center and the Episcopal School, all on the Upper East Side.
The tuitions run from $500 annually for elementary students, to $700 for high-school students.
His father attended seminary before marrying and later sent his 10 children to Catholic school until tuition money ran out.
