Sentences with phrase «catholic school system»

There are several private schools in the area, including the Tyler Catholic School system, King's Academy Christian School, Grace Community School, Christian Heritage School, Good Shepherd Reformed Episcopal School, All Saints Episcopal School, and the East Texas Christian Academy, to name a few.

«The Catholic school system's report card is abysmal,» said Justin Trottier of the Centre for Inquiry (CFI).

Responding to the widespread anti-Catholicism of his time, particularly in the existing public schools, Archbishop Hughes built a parallel Catholic school system in New York.

Archbishop John Hughes, who served New York from 1842 to 1864, is considered by some the grand architect of what would become the Catholic school system.

Welcome to the Catholic school system of the Archdiocese of New York, one of the largest and most diverse in the nation.

You may recall in 2010 we unveiled our first Pathways to Excellence Strategic Plan (Pathways I), a roadmap to help us strengthen and sustain our Catholic school system.

«This past year, our Catholic school system celebrated a multitude of demonstrable improvements thanks to carefully targeted investments and innovative educational strategies.»

The Catholic school system in Ireland is the life blood of the vibrant, Irish society that we see today.

«There are so many people who have built the Catholic school system and sustained it, and I'm so grateful for them.

Innovations in Blended Learning and Technology - Enhanced Teaching; Partnerships to Bolster STEM Education; and Early Childhood Education have helped sustain and improve the academic excellence that has come to define our Catholic school system.

Chicago is home to the third largest school district in the country, one of the largest charter school systems, and the largest Catholic school system

«The Catholic school system as a whole right now is taking a step back and saying, «we need to get this right now,»» said Cecilia Greene, the Partnership's director of stewardship.

It may not be the Catholic school system that is in trouble, but the Church.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

Over the last several years, we have seen new approaches to Catholic education that shake free of the older models of how schools should be organized and run and provide proof points for a new type of Catholic school system.

And the American Catholic school system is disappearing, despite the fact that the number of Catholics has nearly doubled (from 45 million to 77 million) since 1965.

In fact, the Catholic school system was launched by prelates worried that the public system had been overtaken by Protestants — and was out to get them.

Though loss of nuns, changing demographics, and lack of funds are the most common explanations for the Catholic school system's dissolution, and are important to consider, I think we can also find answers to the current crisis by understanding the lessons of 1884.

The issue of Christian science teaching is at the centre of a heated debate between the top administrator of France's Catholic school system and a group of prominent scientists.

S7722, which was pushed by the Catholic school system and Orthodox Jewish communities, passed through both houses of the state legislature, surviving a loss of support from some legislators.

Money and funding is not the answer, learn from the catholic school system, what it takes to get a healthy education structured education.

Three of the heroes of my Baltimore boyhood get their just deserts: Archbishop John Carroll, first and arguably greatest of U.S. bishops; Cardinal James Gibbons, America's most prominent Catholic for four decades; and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, «Wild Betty» as she once called herself, foundress of the Catholic school system that's still the Church's best anti-poverty program.

A builder in the truest form and a man dedicated to education, from his earliest days he led the rebuilding of badly damaged churches and schools and drove the creation of a strong Catholic school system throughout the Archdiocese.»

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia once boasted one of the United States» largest and most culturally embedded Catholic school systems, with a peak enrolment of well over 200,000 students in the early 1970s.

There are 307,021 children in the city's public and Catholic school systems in that program, the research found.

In addition to New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, our study included the school systems in Houston, Edmonton, and Seattle, each of which is relatively decentralized, as well as the three largest Catholic school systems in the United States - Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles - which are more like loose federations of schools than «systems.»

«I really do want to reassure parents in Catholic school systems around the country that the agreements that have been reached the legislation that has been put in place see strong funding growth into the Catholic school systems.»

Catholic school systems developed in many other countries, but their size depended on the percentage of Catholics living in that country during this critical period (see sidebar).

Melissa has taught in the Government, non-Government and Catholic school systems as a Japanese, French, English and Integrated Studies teacher.

One subset of private schools in particular — Catholic Schools — are worth noting, particularly given that some Catholic School systems educate individuals from a plethora of financial means and diverse backgrounds, including non-religious ones.

As part of its 100th - anniversary celebrations, the association has also: * created a Centennial Builders Hall that recognizes Realtors who have made outstanding contributions in the development of the city; * developed a School Citizenship Award, which will be presented annually to one Grade 8 student graduating from each elementary school within the public and Catholic school systems.

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Without such a means of assessing Catholic practice the Vaughan school has been left with a less than perfect system of giving extra credits to families based on the participation in the life of the parish.

I suppose AE wants to blame the plight of the children of the Catholic - run Canadian residential school system.

Uh, not sure if that blog is legit, but I would blame the Catholic - run Canadian residential school system.

Only a few did and the Blair government abolished the system though it was willing to continue it for church schools; it was the Catholic Education Service who wanted the system scrapped.

There is, however, a system of local government — funded Catholic schools which provides an etiolated form of religious identity.

In the 1960s, the Harold Wilson Labour government forced secondary schools to become comprehensive and the Catholic system changed in a matter of years almost as if going comprehensive was something to be done «in the spirit of Vatican II».

Most importantly the tone of Canon Law is miles apart from the reality of what is happening in the English Catholic maintained schools system.

The elementary and secondary school system (to name just one Catholic institution affected by the drop in vocations) serves approximately half the number of students it did in 1960, despite the greater presence of lay teachers and administrators.

Non-Catholics have grounds for resenting and fearing the tendency of Catholics, when they have the power, to seek control of the public school system to bend it to Catholic purposes.

The American Catholic Church first developed a communications network in connection with its system of schools.

The organization and competitiveness of Catholic grammar school basketball gave the WCAL a ready - made farm system.

Growth at the BNMC includes plans for a new Women and Childrens Hospital of Buffalo, a new SUNY Buffalo medical school, and a new headquarters for Catholic Health Systems.

According to the scientists, Cloupet's statement «lifts the veil» on the Catholic education system, which they say is trying to offer its own interpretation of the world rather than giving children the same education as those in state schools, but with a little catechism thrown in.

Island Catholic Schools (ICS) is a system rich in tradition and history dating back to the mid-nineteenth century.

Perhaps the most remarkable finding in Figure 1 is the very small central - office staffs found in the Catholic archdiocesan school systems.

Since the Catholic school «system» is actually a loose and quite decentralized confederation of 7,500 schools supported, for the most part, by 19,000 parishes in more than 150 dioceses, it took «the Church» some time to see the trends, much less develop new strategies to respond to them.

The Catholic «system» continued to grow and by 1965, a stunning 12 percent of all elementary and secondary students in the United States were enrolled in Catholic schools.

Time may prove him right in the case of schools, though it is possible that the loosely federated Catholic systems will continue to thrive in their present organizational form.