Category: Proclaim

  Andres Manuel Dones Grade: 12 Age: 17 Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, Miami, FL Archdiocese of Miami “It is most likely that one of your sons will have the disease and one will not.” That’s what I overheard the hematologist tell my mother as my brother and I were having our blood drawn. I watched […]

The following article is a re-post of Diane Smith’s article, How this prep school is teaching its students to work their way out of poverty. Classes already started for about 80 freshmen attending the Cristo Rey Fort Worth High School at Our Mother of Mercy — a campus tucked in a southeast Fort Worth neighborhood that focuses on […]

The following article is taken from Al DiLascia’s article, Education Savings Accounts, published by Journal Inquirer. There are 31,345 Catholic students in the state [of Connecticut], a number that is rapidly declining. The average cost of a public school student is $16,592. Catholic schools currently save taxpayers more than $520 million. If all these schools were […]

The following article is a re-post of Faith helps Florida Catholic schools draw students by LIVI STANFORD. Like many Catholic schools, Cardinal Newman High School has worked to reinvent itself over the years to draw students. In 2005, it became the first Catholic school in Florida to offer an International Baccalaureate program. It’s added college prep courses […]

Since not all Board members are major gift officers for the school, they can certainly help make significant fundraising advances if appropriately trained to conduct strategic conversations with prospective donors, families and alumni. In her #NCEAICSL session “Turn Your Board into Fundraising Stars,” Mary Foley of Catholic School Management and Christian Brothers Services, provided some […]

The following article is a re-post of Providing sacrament prep for special needs students by Zoey Maraist | Catholic Herald Staff Writer. Nancy Emanuel taught only briefly before becoming a Russian linguist for the U.S. Navy. So she was surprised when her children’s school offered her a position as a long-term substitute special needs teacher. The temporary position changed […]

The following article is a repost of The Most Rev. Gerald Kicanas, to speak at ACE Commencement ceremony by Theo Helm. The Most Rev. Gerald F. Kicanas, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Tucson and chair of the board of directors of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), will serve as the keynote speaker at the 2018 Commencement […]

The following article is a re-post of Retired Tucson bishop wins England award, stresses Catholic press’ critical role by Catholic News Service. Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas accepted the Catholic Press Association’s 2018 Bishop John England Award June 14 by praising the work of the Catholic press and stressing how critical Catholic journalism is to the Church’s message getting out […]

The following article is a re-post of Catholic schools launch marketing initiative by By Jennifer Hall, News-Press Now. The community of St. Joseph Catholic schools launched a unified platform Monday. The leadership at the local Catholic elementary schools — Cathedral, St. Francis Xavier and St. James — and Bishop LeBlond High School announced their new website, St. Joseph […]

The Green Bay Area Catholic Education (GRACE) school system received a Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) School Safety Initiative Grant, administered by the DOJ’s Office of School Safety, in the amount of $153,990, the full request from the school system. The grant positively impacts safety at all nine GRACE schools and aligns with the system’s […]