Sentences with phrase «catholic schools in the city»

The Catholic schools in this city have provided genuine choice for children from low - income and working - class families for more than 150 years.

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Reading that the Archdiocese of Baltimore is planning to build a new school in West Baltimore («Archdiocese of Baltimore plans to build first new Catholic high school in city in more than 50 years,» April 30) raised several questions for me.

«Our treasury rifled; our credit shaken; the poor laborer asking vainly for his honest wages day after day; the rich official reveling in disreputable gains; an enormous debt heaped upon us we know not how; our schools decaying, our teachers cowering before their Catholic masters; our press, when it ventures to complain, threatened with violence or insulted by offered bribes; the interests of the city neglected, its honorable reputation gone.»

Eugene Lawrence wrote the article, addressing the threat to America's children posed by the establishment and support of Catholic schools in New York City.

Now comes an even more comprehensive claim about the positive impact of these schools: For, according to two law professors at the University of Notre Dame, Margaret F. Brinig and Nicole Stelle Garnett, inner - city Catholic schools are important factors in urban renewal as builders of «social capital» on inner - urban areas.

These inner - city Catholic schools are «public schools» in the best sense of the term; they're open to the public (not just to Catholics), and they serve a genuine public interest, the empowerment of the youthful poor.

The social capital that inner - city Catholic schools help build is «spent» in living according to a sense of responsibility for the common good, not just living for immediate gratification.

Jocelyn Morffi learned that her contract at St Peter and St Paul's Catholic School in the US city of Miami was being terminated.

On the other hand, he was certainly a great hero to the younger anti-Nazi campaigners, such as the «White Rose» group at Munich University (Hans and Sophie School — who were, incidentally, also inspired by the writings of another great Catholic, John Henry Newman) and the youth group at St Ludwig's Church in the same city who combined opposition to National Socialism with devout Catholicism and enthusiasm for the emerging liturgical movement.

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

Curran's teams won an incredible twenty - two Catholic school New York City championships» five in basketball and seventeen in baseball.

In fact, about 17 percent of students in Catholic schools in the United States are non-Catholic (more than 300,000 students), and inner - city black Protestants account for a high proportion of that grouIn fact, about 17 percent of students in Catholic schools in the United States are non-Catholic (more than 300,000 students), and inner - city black Protestants account for a high proportion of that grouin Catholic schools in the United States are non-Catholic (more than 300,000 students), and inner - city black Protestants account for a high proportion of that grouin the United States are non-Catholic (more than 300,000 students), and inner - city black Protestants account for a high proportion of that group.

ATIA was designed primarily for Birmingham Catholic schools to address the disproportionate number of teenage pregnancies in the city in the late 1990's.

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

School desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the SSchool desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the Sschool district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the South).

CITY HALL — Days after the city made a surprise announcement that new Success Academy charter schools would move into former Catholic school buildings in Washington Heights, Harlem and Rosedale, parents and education advocates took to the steps of the Department of Education Tuesday morning to protest the law that made it happen.

The forum at St. Paul Catholic High School was sponsored by the Chambers of Commerce of Central Connecticut, and so far was the only pre-election forum scheduled in the city.

Massey spoke at an independent Catholic school in Flatbush not run by the city — a week after having hip surgery, touring the building while wearing tapered maroon sweatpants, slip - on shoes, and with the help of a cane adorned with a silver - colored lion as the handle.

It's a Catholic school in Clayton, a relatively well - to - do area juxtaposed between St. Louis City and west county.

One of the UK's largest, co-educational, Catholic, independent senior schools, set in a breathtaking location overlooking the World Heritage city of Bath.

His parents insisted that he attend St. Michael's Catholic School in Union City where he took part in almost every after school activity, from the alter boys to the cSchool in Union City where he took part in almost every after school activity, from the alter boys to the cschool activity, from the alter boys to the chorus.

Lady Bird's principal at the Catholic private school she goes to notes how much the 17 - year - old seems to love Sacramento, evident in how she writes about the city.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Inspirational Documentary Chronicles Success of Inner - City Chicago Prep School Paul J. Adams, III was the principal of Providence St. Mel, a parochial school in an impoverished section of Chicago, when he was in formed by the Catholic diocese of its plans to close the institSchool Paul J. Adams, III was the principal of Providence St. Mel, a parochial school in an impoverished section of Chicago, when he was in formed by the Catholic diocese of its plans to close the institschool in an impoverished section of Chicago, when he was in formed by the Catholic diocese of its plans to close the institution.

Gerwig attended a Catholic high school before moving east to enroll in New York City's Barnard College, and Sacramento has never seemed far from her thoughts.

She starts her senior year at a Catholic girls» high school in 2002, with pink - dyed hair, a deep love for Dave Matthews Band's song «Crash Into Me,» and dreams of getting out of Sacramento to go to college in New York City.

Lady Bird is Greta Gerwig's love letter to Sacramento, the central California city where she — like her title character, played by Saoirse Ronan — spent her restless teenage years in an all - girls Catholic school.

But the headmistress of Lady Bird's Catholic school, Sister Sarah Joan (Lois Smith), thinks she knows better, telling our protagonist that it's obvious, from the way she writes about Sacramento in her college admissions essays, that Lady Bird loves the city.

While there were new Catholic schools and Catholic schools with waiting lists in the suburbs, inner - city Memphis had become increasingly black and poor and non-Catholic.

«Our donors believed that Catholic education could make a difference,» says McDonald, «and that Catholic schools are successful in inner cities.»

It came at a time when Catholic dioceses were aggressively merging and closing schools across the country, especially in inner cities, and Dayton's Catholic schools were among those experiencing an emotionally wrenching downsizing.

As a result, a trend among private Catholic schools has emerged in some cities: Catholic schools have, in effect, «switched» their status by dropping the religious component and becoming public charter schools.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore says it will close 13 schools in that city and Baltimore County at the end of the current school year.

«I tried to get people to look at Memphis,» recalls George Loney, who directed Dayton's Catholic Urban Presence program, launched in 2002 to find a solution to that city's Catholic school crisis.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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.&raquin the United States - Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles - which are more like loose federations of schools than «systems.»

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel concluded in 2005 that «the principal effect of choice» in the city has been «to preserve the city's private schools, many of them Lutheran and Catholic.»

But arguably the most striking thing about a fund - raiser for Roman Catholic schools in the capital city was the alliance of a staunch conservative and the quintessential liberal as co-hosts.

The DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund has made more than $ 1 million in three - year grants to scholarship funds, teacher - development programs, and other activities at inner - city Catholic schools.

They also seem to be willing to accept some propositions with highly circumscribed causal contingency — for instance, that reducing class size increases achievement (provided that it is a «sizable» change and that the reduction is to fewer than 20 students per class); that Catholic schools are superior to public ones in the inner - city but not in suburban settings.

The latest study — coming from Milwaukee — shows that the 9th graders from low income families who used vouchers to go to Catholic schools were much more likely to complete high school within four years than similar students who were in the city's public schools.

Since 1990, more than 1,300 Roman Catholic schools in the United States have closed, mostly in cities, notes the report released April 10 by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington think tank that has touted the merits of Catholic schooling.

In the major cities of the Northeast, where Catholic immigrants from Europe had settled in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the reduction in the number of Catholic schools was similaIn the major cities of the Northeast, where Catholic immigrants from Europe had settled in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the reduction in the number of Catholic schools was similain large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the reduction in the number of Catholic schools was similain the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the reduction in the number of Catholic schools was similain the number of Catholic schools was similar.

Brinig and Garnett assume Catholic schools» effectiveness with lower - income inner - city children and take up a different story: the effect of school closures on the quality of the social life in their surrounding neighborhoods.

The Shildon Campus of Greenfield Community College in County Durham missed out back then, along with along with Belmont Community School in Durham City, Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College, St Leonard's Catholic School in Durham City, Durham Sixth Form Centre and Tanfield School in Stanley.

Whether the proliferation of charter schools in urban areas is fueling the demise of inner - city Roman Catholic schools is not a new question.

Roman Catholic educators in Detroit are predicting that some Catholic schools may eventually close, consolidate, or become independent of the church if the Archdiocese of Detroit carries out its plan to shut down more than one - third of the city's churches.

Perhaps the most poignant display of what giving up faith for money will mean for schools was highlighted in a 2008 New York Times article documenting the conversion of Holy Name, a D.C. Catholic school, into Center City Public Charter Sschool, into Center City Public Charter SchoolSchool.

The research team also found that, «while serious crime declined across the city between 1999 - 2005, it declined more slowly in police beats where Catholic schools closed,» and, «between 1999 and 2005, the presence of an open Catholic school in a police beat was consistently associated with a statistically significant decrease in crime.»

According to the Archdiocese of New York, average tuition in the city's Catholic schools, the city's largest private provider, was $ 1,728, which was 72 percent of the total per - pupil cost of $ 2,400 to educate a child at these schools.

It is not rich in resources, and because it lacked a legal ventilation hood, the school had given up serving hot lunch until a few years ago, when principal Gary Phillips found a small catering company servicing similar Catholic schools north of the city.