USA Today Backs Vouchers
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:36 AM
Student supporter of D.C.'s voucher program. (CNS)
President Barack Obama’s decision to allow a successful voucher program in Washington, D.C., to wither away was criticized yesterday by USA Today.
Wrote USA Today:
Few national images are more shameful than those of innocent, low-income kids milling through decrepit public schools, uncared for, unsafe and barely educated. In Washington, D.C., alone, 173 schools — 67% — fail to meet... READ MORE
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‘Choice’ Obama Should Choose
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:27 AM
This ReasonTV video discusses President Barack Obama’s resistance to preserving the successful school voucher program in Washington, D.C.
It notes how the program has benefited minority students by allowing them access to constructive alternatives to the District of Columbia’s dysfunctional public schools, such as the city’s Catholic schools.
About half of the 1,700 low-income students... READ MORE
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The Catholic School Obama
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:39 PM
Students at President Obama's former school in Jakarta, Indonesia, display his picture Nov. 5. (CNS photo/Reuters)
Interesting fact: Barack Obama spent more time as a student at a Catholic school in Indonesia than did John F. Kennedy at the Catholic school he attended as a child in Connecticut.
William McGurn explores Obama’s Catholic school connection in a Jan. 27 Wall Street Journal article called “Obama Should Acknowledge His Roots.”
Says McGurn, “At a time when America’s 6,165 Catholic... READ MORE
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The Courage to be Catholic
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:50 AM
Nun teaches at a Catholic school in Bethlehem. (CNS)
Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, says he is “continually concerned” about a lowering of Christian identity in Catholic schools and colleges.
Speaking to Register Correspondent Edward Pentin in Rome last week, the Polish cardinal said that in some Catholic educational institutions “we don’t have the courage anymore to really say that we are... READ MORE
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Where the Boys Are
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:58 PM
Prayer service at Chaminade High School.
New York-area boys are flocking to a Long Island Catholic school that adheres to strong discipline and Church teachings.
And Chaminade High School is unapologetically Catholic: All students must have a baptismal certificate to register.
The New York Times reported Sept. 26 that more than 1,600 boys last year applied for places in Chaminade’s 425-member freshman class.
The school was founded... READ MORE
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Pope Praises Catholic Schools
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, September 26, 2008 7:47 AM
Pope John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries, Va. (CNS)
Pope Benedict XVI said yesterday that Catholic schools are “an expression of the right of all citizens to freedom of education.”
Speaking Sept. 25 at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo outside of Rome to representatives of Catholic educational institutions, the Pope said the state should recognize the equal status of Catholic schools and public schools.
Doing so “will give parents... READ MORE
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